Great pics... Quite strange really in a way too seeing those unmodified basic aircraft... No one had any inkling of what was but a few months away... The Falklands War.. and all that was to mean for the newly born Chinook force... And how it was just a precursor for the many continuous years of operational battle hardened service to come.
Good to see CJ there too... He did his bit to help get it started on the right track too RIP.