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Old July 17th 15, 06:21 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default UK2 XJ407 Westland Whirlwind.jpg

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:51:45 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:15:40 +0100, RustY © wrote:

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'.