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The Westland Whirlwind was a British twin-engined fighter developed by Westland Aircraft. A contemporary of the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane , it was the first single-seat, twin-engined, cannon-armed fighter of the Royal Air Force .
The Westland Whirlwind helicopter was a British licence-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw. It primarily served with the Royal Navy 's Fleet Air Arm in anti-submarine and search and rescue roles.
Westland Whirlwind may mean: Westland Whirlwind (fighter), a fixed wing Second World War fighter aircraft; Westland Whirlwind (helicopter), a post-war helicopter ...
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).
A Westland Wessex HAR.2 and in the background a Westland Whirlwind HAR.10, both types used by the Search and Rescue Training Unit. Training for specialist Search and Rescue (SAR) roles in the Royal Air Force began in November 1958 with the creation of a training flight at RAF St. Mawgan, which then moved to RAF Valley. [1]
Westland Whirlwind Petter's next fixed-wing aircraft design was a radical departure from the Westland's typical high-wing fabric-covered airframe. The Westland P9 was a low winged twin-engined aircraft employing the latest technology.
The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw (company model number S-55) is a multi-purpose piston-engined helicopter that was used by the United States Army and United States Air Force.It was also license-built by Westland Aircraft as the Westland Whirlwind in the United Kingdom.
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 .