"Ramsman" <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> On 31/03/2014 18:11, Claus Gustafsen wrote:
>>> Well I agree that the Buffalo isn'r a pretty plane, it still looks
>>> better than the Barracuda to me.
>>> But the brittish did produce this (it seems to me) much overlooked
>>> beauty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Whirlwind_(fighter)
>>> Claus
>>
>> Hi Claus,
>>
>> I live a couple of miles from where the Westland Whirlwind was built.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idJ3tF00Og
>>
>> http://www.britishpathe.com/video/whirlwind-fighter-squadron
>>
>>
>
> Thank you for posting those Ricardo. First time I've seen Whirlwinds in
> flight. Such an elegant aircraft. I first came across it as an Airfix kit
> way back when. Two bob at Woolies, I think.
>
> By the time I started work at Yeovil, Westlands were well into the
> helicopter era, in fact I was involved in the computer side of Sea King
> production.
>
> --
> Peter
Did they have computers in the stone age when the Sea Kings were built? :)
Cheers,
Indrek Aavisto
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Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult W.S. Churchill
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