Originally Posted by
tucumseh
I'm happy to say Westland never once let me down, and can think of quite a few examples of MoD awarding contracts to others, only for Westland to dig us/them out. Puma Nav Update in the 90s was one.
Many years ago, weren't Westland supposed to be tooled up to produce Blackhawks for the european market? I certainly remember a RR engined version in and out of Farnborough after the airshow one year which was supposed to be the 'European' development aircraft.