abat Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 1 hour ago, Scimitar said: Meanwhile an Australian Wessex musical interlude... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USj6EzW2PgA Excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 4 hours ago, Scimitar said: Meanwhile an Australian Wessex musical interlude... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USj6EzW2PgA Cool video, thanks for sharing! Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 My old squadron HU-816 decommisioning flight 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abat Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 2 hours ago, NAVY870 said: My old squadron HU-816 decommisioning flight Thanks for sharing that one Steve. Some great footage and beautiful scenery. What year was that by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJP Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 2 hours ago, NAVY870 said: My old squadron HU-816 decommisioning flight Great video and great music - I want to do a RAN Wessex 31B one day and it has just moved up the to do list 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Thanks Steve, I thoroughly enjoyed that video. Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 14 hours ago, NAVY870 said: My old squadron HU-816 decommisioning flight I thought you'd be along with that one Steve. Must have been sad to see the old girls go but realistically they had done their bit hadn't they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abat Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 (edited) I've updated the first post in the thread to include a link to the original thread under the Wessex STGB. Only just worked out how to do this. The link gives a bit of background on the 31A and earlier build and modification work. Edited September 20, 2017 by abat Does anyone else find iPhones hard to type properly on? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abat Posted September 20, 2017 Author Share Posted September 20, 2017 57 minutes ago, Scimitar said: I thought you'd be along with that one Steve. Must have been sad to see the old girls go but realistically they had done their bit hadn't they? Looks like around 25 years of service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 9 hours ago, Scimitar said: I thought you'd be along with that one Steve. Must have been sad to see the old girls go but realistically they had done their bit hadn't they? They weren't being retired for that flight, they soldiered on til 1989 with 723 Squadron. HU-816 decommisioned in 1987 in Wessex then recommisioned as HS-816 in July 1992 with the Seahawk S-70B Bravo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 They got their money's worth out of them then didn't they? Hard to believe that the last three operational S-70s are off to museums now. 9wonder who will buy the others/) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) The Fighting Eight Hundred and Sixteenth South Coast Vertical Assault Squadron on the occasion of our last operational detachment to RAAF East Sale (the polite name) in the counter terrorism role with the steely eyed killers of the SAS (lovely chaps, hated the Crabs as much as we did) as part of Operation Bursa. Taken at the CO's request in 1986. After this the Wallies reverted to the SAR role and the taxi service for the chaps in black fell to the brigands of 817 Squadron and those godawful Sea King things. Muggins here is back row eight in from the right. For further reading on Operation Bursa please make your way here https://www.faaaa.asn.au/snippets-history-operation-bursa/ Edited September 21, 2017 by NAVY870 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abat Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 I’ve been focusing on my Fairey Firefly build the last few weeks but managed to get some Wessex time in the last few days whilst on holiday. I cleaned up the rotor blades and parts and added a few more details including the (lubrication?) hoses and approximations to other bits and pieces from a series of rotor head photos. A slight mis-alignment in the molding meant a fair bit of sanding was required. I umm-ed and arr-ed about folding the blades and even experimented building a rotor hinge from plastic card and rod, but in the end settled on spreading the wings for simplicity and sanity. This isn’t glued together yet (to allow easier transport home from the beach) but you get the idea. There’s still some small etch circles to sit atop the rotor head and I’m replacing the crude linkages between the swash plate(?) and the blades. I should spend more time learning about the components. Interesting things, helicopters. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abat Posted October 9, 2017 Author Share Posted October 9, 2017 Rotor head now glued. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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