Help, Falklands Lynx,
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: ulster
Age: 64
Posts: 204
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Help, Falklands Lynx,
Can anyone help I am trying to locate pics of HMS Brilliants Lynx helicopters during the Falklands War for a project, so far I have one poor pic sourced from the IWM. I also need details of the alterations to the paintscheme during the operation.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Burgess Hill
Posts: 149
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Didn't Brilliants Lynx have 1/2 its nose taken off by a bomb bouncing up through the flightdeck during the A4 engagement that sunk Coventry ?? - seem to remember seeing pics of the aftermath
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Burgess Hill
Posts: 149
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Brilliant was our Goalkeeper during the '82 conflict - often used to look out at her from the forward hangar sidelift opening and think "Brilliant by name - Brilliant by nature "
Brilliant was our Goalkeeper during the '82 conflict - often used to look out at her from the forward hangar sidelift opening and think "Brilliant by name - Brilliant by nature "
Reminds me of a signal sent by the first Captain of BRILLIANT, a well known and very forthright submarine officer and who was awarded the DSO following the conflict, when the ship passed the submarine SPLENDID in the Channel- "You may be SPLENDID but I am BRILLIANT"
Jack
Reminds me of a signal sent by the first Captain of BRILLIANT, a well known and very forthright submarine officer and who was awarded the DSO following the conflict, when the ship passed the submarine SPLENDID in the Channel- "You may be SPLENDID but I am BRILLIANT"
Jack
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: One Three Seven, Disco Heaven.
Age: 65
Posts: 2,540
Likes: 0
Received 34 Likes
on
17 Posts
Rucawo, do you have the reggies and the code No.'s of the airframes you are interested in? I was in the Falklands Dec 82-May 83 and have some. What is the colour scheme you are refering to? If it is the blue one with the white part of the roundel blacked out, I have one but not sure which ship it was from.
Danny
Danny
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: ulster
Age: 64
Posts: 204
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The Lynx were HAS.2s, XZ725 and XZ729 I believe the scheme on both was Oxford Blue with the white painted out but to what extent and was it with blue or black is what I'm trying to nail down.Both are still active as HMA.8s.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Lowlevel UK
Posts: 316
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
We used blue to paint out the white, but I fear that it was down to what was easily available at the time.
Just checking that you have seen this link and its other sections.
Just checking that you have seen this link and its other sections.
Last edited by Data-Lynx; 22nd Feb 2010 at 13:36. Reason: Add a link
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: One Three Seven, Disco Heaven.
Age: 65
Posts: 2,540
Likes: 0
Received 34 Likes
on
17 Posts
Rucawo, nothing in my slide collection of those two airframes, from my Falklands stint, and they were all grey anyway. Can't find the stuff I got on Ascension at the moment, but the blue Lynx with the white painted out, example I have, I'm pretty sure it was painted out with black paint. I'll try and find it as quick as I can and let you know.
Danny
Danny
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Devon
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Brilliant Lynx
Rucawo
If you contact me Dave Oddy hmsbrilliant.com I have External shot and instrument panel shot of the lynx we took home Pictures taken before we reached Ascension on the way home. Regards
If you contact me Dave Oddy hmsbrilliant.com I have External shot and instrument panel shot of the lynx we took home Pictures taken before we reached Ascension on the way home. Regards