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This is so wonderfully filmed and edited, it does justice to the beauty of the development and production process. Kino.

*This didn't age well...*

Looks like something out of Thunderbirds. Scary!

Is this top gun music

❤excellent ❤

The first record should have been with the M52 and we would have been much further on.

👍👍👍

Looks like a drafty ride.

Sadly, what killed the Rotodyne was the excessive noise. If Fairey could have devised a different drive system to the tip-jet main rotor propulsion system, the Rotodyne might have succeeded. Some of the commentators below are right - the concept deserves a rethink using present-day technology.

Alas... Westland is no more, tits-up in 2000..

Well, none of that sales pitch ever came true... the Rotodyne failed to deliver what was promised and was an unmitigated failure..

What a very distinct sound. Love this helicopter.

Excellent documentary! Which year was that? Must have been the mid 80's, 1983 or so....

Freebird would HAVE been the better song than TC dangerzone

This and the TSR-2 ..incredible aircraft for the time and British (when we made stuff that was brilliant)

FD2 and what could have been?.

I had never realised that the FD2 had a droop snoot like Concorde.

Such a pretty aircraft, years ahead of everything at the time.....The droop snoot, long before they stole it for Concorde.....🤔😏😏🇬🇧

are you kidding me? it still took a normal airplane Three hours from Brussels to London, how is that possible, how could a normal airplane be so much slower?

Well said, Engineer title no longer means that...

4:50 after running that gearbox for 1,000 hours it was sent to overhaul and found the finger prints etched in the gears from these guys who put it together...

USA to UK , Thanks for posting.

Light skin = Aluminum Dark shin Magnesium In California we had S-55 Carrying mail & passengers as Los Angeles Airways Most my family was involved with LAA and met Igor many times Later I flew helicopters and met Igors son Sergi at the Fire Hawk intro for LAFD "My old man Knew your old man- Los Angeles Airways" He remembered Pops and I gave him a cartoon / drawing of the S-70. It's in his personal collection (His art work is fantastic)

20 X 26 sized deck and flagmen... Tuna Boat wheel house was smaller :) Neat history stuff here, All I got to fly were American machines. Would of loved the Skeeter or Scout

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Note that the FD 2 had a lowered nose cone, the so-called “droop snoot”, later used on Concorde.

I think " Possibly the best Ever Helicopter especially with GE engines and the 5 blade berps. Westland TT330! All Metal makes a strong helicopter"""

They were right, in the old days

Worked on Lynx and Gazelle for 20 years in the British Army, almost choked on my tea when they said Lynx was easy to maintain. Army Lynx Mk1 was a nightmare it took about 10 years of upgrades to make the eventual Lynx Mk 7 a good helicopter , also Gazelle needed a major engine upgrade to make it a great helicopter.

Fantastic Vid, I remember building the Airfix kits of the Belvedere and the Bristol Bloodhound Missile in the early 1960s as a boy.

From 1963-1965 I worked with 846 then 845 Navy Air Commando squadrons. In Sarawak, Borneo. Brilliant machines, fantastic crews, and an absolutely vital role in the confrontation with Insurgents from Indonesia.

Was this the precursor to the LYNX???

I was ATC for 845 NACS at Sibu in Sarawak in 1963-64. It was the best time of my life.

I hail from nearby Sherborne. I knew at least a couple of dozen people who worked at WHL. A huge employer at one time but sadly this dwindles though the 80's and 90's. My personal favourite was the Gazelle. I worked at WHL myself for a while as a contractor. Saw guys making the wireline looms for the Sea King and saw the big pit they dug for the massive press they put in the mid 80s when the blades were going full composite.

Whatever happened to Tony English. Legend.

It’s a Sikorsky S-55.

Wow, I think I started working there in '89 as a graduate trainee. Interesting place but I didn't have to wear a polo neck!

the music kills me 😅, i enjoyed watching

Huge missed opportunity. As good as Puma has been, this should have been our support chopper.

Why do british aircraft always look so... so... so... british.

Never could confirm the story that the only way the 192 could lift the Land Rover was for the engine in the LR being removed...

The Flaws in the Airframe of this is Helicopter is negated up by the Upbeat Disney like Music which accompanies this Upload ?

That was ZF641 😍 when was the return flight over the alps? I am writing the history of this particular EH101.

back when the UK built things

Remember this well great pilots

This film is after 1970 when the Ark was refitted with the 8.5deg angled flight and bridle catchers, this enabled her to operate Phantoms and Buccaneers.

Excellent video. My uncle served with the RAF in Malaya and was airlifted to Forward Communication Posts by Belvederes.

Only one in its class, anti submarine anti tank helicopter

Great video, thanks for sharing

Wonder if any data from this types flight testing and design were looked at by the Americans working on the ch47