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Subject: Re: UK2 XJ407 Westland Whirlwind.jpg
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:51:45 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote:
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>>And some are still flying today..............
>
>Great picture!
>
>I was thinking this chopper looked a lot like the Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, so, I
>looked it up and low and behold the Westland Whirlwind is the H-19 built under
>license from Sikorsky.
>
>As I remember, these were loud, underpowered, did I say loud and not very
>attractive and loud..... :-)
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_H-19_Chickasaw
And the Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 was built by Westland as the 'Wessex'.
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