500 Fan: That was a great find on the Osborn rescue .. bravo!
Yoyo: Given the aircraft's titles: "Redningstjeneste" this is most likely a Norwegian SAR bird and which begs the question; what were they doing at Heathrow?
A Royal Navy Westland Sea King HAR5 is joined by a Bond Air Services EC135 at Dunoon, Scotland on 3rd June 2010
Royal Navy Sea King HAR5 XZ920 of HMS Gannet's SAR flight .. in flight .. with the co-jo employing that most rare of aeronautical skills once known as navigation!
And then there's this ..
Details are scarce although there appears to be an '85' stamped on the nose of the craft. Word is that the Navy fly boys were distracted during their sortie by this 'foreign' species and were captured during their interrogation of the same!
Of Bulwark, Whirlwinds and Christmas!
The Christmas card distributed by 848 Helicopter Squadron aboard HMS Bulwark in 1961. Perhaps someone, somewhere, can interpret the significance of the drawing!