We still had a piston Whirlwind at Boscombe in the mid 70's. A 'one-armed paperhanger machine' if ever there was one!! Brian S (mentioned from time to time in these columns) used to do a reverse hover taxy, at speed, doing figure-of-eights, as a demonstration coordination exercise .... now THAT is a coordination exercise
All very well to be 'sniffy' about the Whirlwind's performance, but there are quite a few people around who wouldn't be here without the Whirlwind's SAR efforts. Our scramble times in the '10' would leave today's high tech machines well behind