Veteran helicopter enjoys pride of place at Yeovilton

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1st Sep 2012, 10:05

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BastOn,

Keep an eye out for the Sea Harriers that WEBF will be launching from his bath.

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Bengo

Now that is another story!!

CATO hopefully is not watching this thread.....................

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Has anyone else experienced ground resonance on the Wessex? Bloody terrifying!

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Has anyone else experienced ground resonance on the Wessex? Bloody terrifying!

Over the 6 years of working on them, as groundcrew, whenever I was doing a see-off I always, always, always picked out a run-to-safe-place in case one went bad... my favourite hiding place of choice was off to the side of the dispersal behind the big heavy 25KVA DC power sets. I only ever ran once and fortunately the jockey managed to catch it before she leapt onto her side