Royal Navy Sea King SAR 771 sqn - painting

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  • Опубліковано 4 гру 2024
  • The Westland Sea King was always going to be an obvious choice of painting subject for me - my Grandfather worked on the production line as an aero engineer at Westland in Yeovil, Somerset UK back in the 1970s/80s. Also throughout my life I would see these buzzing overhead on exercise from their local Royal Navy bases at RNAS Yeovilton and Merryfield, or more dramatically rescuing tourists that appeared to fall lemming-like from the cliffs around the nearby coastline.
    When it was announced that not only was the Sea King being retired from active service in the UK, but the search and rescue role itself was to be axed for both the RAF and Royal Navy, I realised that I would soon come to miss their familiar sounds and shapes, just as years before I had almost taken for granted the silhouettes in the sky of passing Harriers, Hunters, Canberras, Phantoms, Tornados, VC10s...

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