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Foto XT443 in Off Airport - Weston Super Mare [Helicopter Museum], England, United Kingdom © by Ian Haskell




Airport: Off Airport - Weston Super Mare [Helicopter Museum], England, United Kingdom Date: 25-October-2009 
Airline: United Kingdom - Navy   Aircraft: Westland Wasp HAS.1 Photographer: Ian Haskell 
Registration + Info:  XT443 (422) International Helicopter Museum. ex HMS Aurora. (....more pictures of XT443) ID: 899117 / 46 views 

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1.Simon Palmer (27-11-2012 00:43:34)

I was the helicopter controller in HMS Aurora during the late 70s and early 80s so spent many hours on "the tube" when 422 was airborne. Being basically 4 seats slung under an engine wasps spent a great deal of the time being "driven" around the sky by the controller in the ship's operations room. Wasps were notoriously bad radar targets so the transponder (the can shaped object under the aircraft) was an essential bit of kit. We used to practise Vectacs (Vectored attacks against a submarine), Didtacs (controlled strikes against small surface ships using the AS12 missile)as well as talk downs (Operational Approaches) and Poor Visibility Approaches (PVAs)to the ships flight deck.

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