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The Whirlwind Fighter Project began building a full-scale replica Whirlwind in 2011–2012. By 2023 an authentic cockpit section had been built and put on display at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum in Hawkinge . [ 54 ]
The Whirlwind was the UK's first cannon-armed fighter and faster than many other British aircraft at the time but was troubled by the inability of Rolls-Royce to produce the engines. The Lysander army co-operation aircraft was displaced for reconnaissance as too vulnerable but found favour for specialist missions into occupied Europe carrying ...
The Butterworth Westland Whirlwind was a 2/3 scale flying replica of the British Westland Whirlwind fighter aircraft of World War II that was built in the United States in the 1970s. The aircraft was based on the wings and horizontal tail of a Grumman American AA-1A modified and mated to an all-new fuselage.
Two Westland Whirlwind twin-engine fighters (P6975 & P6978) of 263 Squadron were in a section of three that took off from RAF Exeter and were transitting from Bovey Tracey towards Princetown, Devon to escort two incoming Catalinas from Darrel's Island, Bermuda, to Milford Haven but then re-tasked to patrol off Start Point.
Westland Whirlwind HAR.1 search and rescue helicopter (July 1961 - March 1962) Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 Fighter/Ground attack (May 1962 - May 1967) Westland Whirlwind HAR.3 search and rescue helicopter (July - September 1963) Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 anti-submarine helicopter (May 1965) Westland Wessex HU.5 transport helicopter (May 1969 - March 1981)
Whirlwind Mk I, 263 Sqn Exeter, in flight over West Country. The Westland Whirlwind was the first cannon-armed fighter for the RAF, first flown in October 1938 and at the production stage by 1940. It was a twin engined heavy fighter (also able to function as a fighter bomber with 500-pound (230 kg) bombload).
Westland Whirlwind may mean: Westland Whirlwind (fighter) , a fixed wing Second World War fighter aircraft Westland Whirlwind (helicopter) , a post-war helicopter based on the Sikorsky S-55
Westland put forward their P.14, essentially an adaptation of Westland's Whirlwind fighter layout (and a more experimental twin, the P.13) to meet Air Ministry Specification F.4 of 1940 for a high altitude fighter. [3] The most obvious feature was the enormous high aspect ratio wing, with a span on the production aircraft of 70 feet (21 m).