Thank you Fareastdriver for the correction on XG455's fate. All our efforts at Odiham were not quite as futile as I had been led to believe. For years in the RAF Museum, in front of the Belvedere exhibit there was a photograph of XG455 in its first hover after the Odiham repair, taken by the station photographer Cpl Hurrell. Unfortunately it is Crown Copyright so I cannot post it here.
This was not a celebratory photograph, it was organised by some cynic who wanted photographic evidence of the accident for the Board of Inquiry! In fact the aircraft flew beautifully, a slight one/per at 60kts according to my notes, but otherwise very smooth. Before it had gone into ASF, its vibration was such that it used to remove teeth fillings.
Speechless Two hasn't come back yet, but when he does I think he may have been driving one of those RN Wessex 5s in the Youtube clip!