oooh thats interesting... looks like a plastic WG30. Lets hope the Itialians design the transmission this time
AgustaWestland Unveils The AW169 | AgustaWestland
from that press release "Giuseppi Orsi, CEO, AgustaWestland said “We are unveiling the AW169
hear at Farnborough because ..."
If they can't keep typos out of the press release, god help them when it comes to writing the software.
Two things come to mind though
1) just what is left at Yeovil? GKN kept all the profitable stuff like the aerostructures business, while the subsidiaries were all sold off. Presumably theres just the erecting shop left with Westland themselves?
2) the ONLY Westland designed helicopter to be a success was / is the Lynx. Everything else was designed by someone else (Bristol, Saunders-Roe, Sikorsky, Bell, Aerospatiale, McDonnell...) The things they've designed themselves have all been failures or f'ups: Westiminster, WG30, Merlin (basic design was more Westland than Agusta when the airframe basics were fixed in the 1980's, though every dog and his chicken have had a hand since)
PS - in years past cabs trundling between the two airfields was a common sight. Westland had a fleet of oversize artic trailers painted in West Ham / Aston Villa colours in which you could hide a Wessex or Whirlwind. They were parked for years at the closed Houndstone Army camp. Presumably now all scrapped...