The bottom photo could be 103 Sqn, either way its post-confrontation around 1970, but if its the overall appearance he's after, the livery is still typical.
engine rundown during Basatu Padu
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Bersatu Padu in Malay, meaning "Complete Unity" in English. Exercise Bersatu Padu was designed to demonstrate the British capability of reinforcing the Malaysian and Singaporean armed forces, initially within 24 hours and building to massive force - as we had guaranteed in the Five Year defence treaty covering our withdrawal from east of Suez in 1971. Since shipping out Whirlwinds wasn't practical, a single Whirlwind was shipped and reassembled outside the C130 hangar to show how we'd bring them in and how long it would take to get them in the air. Then 103 and 110 provided the helicopter support to the exercise and 72 Sqn joined in from Odiham with their Wessex's as a follow-on. As for the rest of us who were based in Singapore, we went about our normal duties without being allowed to participate. (For the purposes of the exercise we had to pretend we weren't really there).
My own function from 1969 to 1971 was as a Gnome Engine Fuel Control System Specialist (A.Fitt.E; Q-AHW-PE) based in the workshops. [For the record, we never found a genuine fault in either the Computer or the Throttle Actuator on bench tests. Routine compressor washes seemed to make the Gnome reliable later in the seventies and by the time I was on 32 Sqn at Northolt, run-downs were virtually unknown.] I also covered the Torquemeter modification, for which we built a nice "Heath Robinson" test rig for applying static torque to the transmitter. The amount of twist applied to the rotor shaft at full torque was quite an eye-opener.
