Originally Posted by Savoia
Westland Wessex HU5 XT772 'Green Parrot' of 781 Naval Air Squadron (for another [better] image of this craft see page 9) departing Battersea Heliport in 1978 (Photo: Anton Heumann)
Nice to see the RN Ensign on the nose.
Originally posted last october here at post no228 -->
http://www.pprune.org/6752024-post228.html
Wasn't she known as "The Admirals Barge"? That particular old dear (don't ask how I remember the tail number, some just seem to stick in the mind for some odd reason) ended up nailed 20 feet up on the inside wall of the SARTU/22 Sqn hangar at RAF Valley as a winching/procedural training aid in '84/'85-ish. The lecky system was re-hashed to roughly correlate with the maintenance manuals. Hyds were provided for the winch from a noisy old Mk2 hyd rig. I'm led to believe that she's no longer there... but even now I still use a small lamp, that I pinched from her, as a makeshift voltage tester
Fantastic thread Gents.
