Originally Posted by
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It was collected by the RN from Felixstowe and taken by truck to Finningley for the 1982 BoB Static Display. It was whilst being moved from Finningley to Abingdon for the latter's BoB display that the front blade tie came free allowing the blade to rise and strike a road bridge over the A1 near Alconbury. This damage wrote off the forward main rotor blade, rotor head, mast, engine, Main Rotor Gearbox, engine to gearbox drive shaft, front tail rotor drive shaft, the windscreens and nose structure, the main fuselage structure under the MRG and the undercarriage. Apart from that it did not look in too bad a condition. The story of how all these components were repaired or replaced is a book in itself !
The damaged rotor blade was sliced into thin sections and sold for fundraising.
My father got a cross section - with the trim tab.
Anyone got any history of the cab before it came to the UK?
Any record of what it did during the war? Or before the war?