Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

Cool pictures if you're into RN "small ship helicopters"...




There's a series of 15 photos available to view here... https://helioperations.co/blog/heliops-welcomes-wa...

Westland Wasp HAS Mk 1 XT420 (G-CBUI) at the former RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey), in company with AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat HMA2, Serial number ZZ517. The Wasp is operated by Navy Wings and was built in 1964 (and is, apparently, a Falklands War veteran embarked aboard HMS Hecla in the CASEVAC role), the Wildcat is currently in service with 825 NAS. It was the first time a Wasp had landed at Portland in over thirty years...

ETA:

A picture of HMS Hecla...
https://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/gr...
...as converted to a hospital ship during the Falklands War.

And a picture of two Wasp helicopters aboard sister ship HMS Hydra...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205...
...during the conflict.

This selection of Burt Rutan designs just cropped up on FB



VariViggen, VariEze, Long-EZ, and Catbird

Cool pic tho

Wow!

Obviously pushing it a bit and pulling some G.

“The P-75 Eagle may have looked like a bad airplane, but don't be fooled, it was a bad airplane.”

Open your mouth stick your tongue out and say "aaaahhh"

The general layout harks back to the Cheyenne in some respects.

More info https://newatlas.com/military/lockheed-martin-boei...

"Designed to replace the Black Hawk helicopter, the Defiant X looks very similar to its SB>1 Defiant predecessor, with the same basic layout, though the nose is sharper, the airframe more aerodynamic, and the engine nacelle has been refined to reduce its thermal signature."