This has got Nimrod written all over it...
Not quite the same. Nimrods were hand built and they, as they found out trying to put the big hulls on, were all different lengths. The Pumas, albiet built in Britain, were made in French jigs. The Makila conversion has already been done to Portugese Pumas and the rest is modernising the electrics. It's a shame they couldn't have flashed out on the single wheel undercarriage but you can't have everything. It may be over forty years old but it's a utility helicopter. The job that utility helicopters do has not changed much over that time and it goes as fast as any and carries as much as any.
I would not have believed that when I sat behind a Puma windscreen for the first time in 1971 that I would sit behind an identical windscreen, blue/amber pips and all, on my last professional command thirty eight years later.