Westland WG-11A ASW Helicopter

[kitnut617]

How long ago did you live down in Weymouth Geoff, that was my old stomping ground  -----

[Thorvic]

It was actually on holiday at the Caravan Park between West Bay and Burton Bradstock (where they set some of Broadchurch) and I went to college at Bournemouth. Had a nice viewing area at the Naval Cemetery on Portland above the Dockyard as you could go see the Wasrships in dock and doing FOST plus watch the activities at Osprey. Used to be great at weekends when one of the ships used to be open to the public as you could drive into the dockyard and see the other ships tied up alongside.

The Caravan Park used to be the Chesil Beach flight path as they would use the site and the cliffs between there and West Bay as landfall.

The FOST training often took part in Lyme Bay so could be quite surreal on the beach on a hazy sunny day with the roar of Gas Turbines and the thus of gun fire and then see a Type 42 appear out of the sea haze. The nav point also marked the route from Yeovilton so I remember the FRADU jets flying over and the early Sea Harriers as had both Invincible and Illustrious work up there when we were down there.

That's where the passion for Warships and Fleet Air Arm come from, and of course going down there Bovingdon and Lulworth did generate quite an interest in Armour too 

[TheChronicOne]

That looks really good, and SO Chinook like.

Was it a case of 'great minds think alike' or was there some Boeing-Vertol influence there?

Co-sign!! I love chinooks so this is great to see. 

Really good work there!