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1976: Sea King Mk50 NO 4 releases a Mk44 torpedo - RAN.
3110. The Sea King could carry four Mk44 or Mk45 torpedoes. The big helicopter's marine-shaped under-carriage and flotation tanks are seen to advantage here.
Looking at this photo, and the preceding one of the same aircraft indistress, one can see that in the earlier image it is already sitting quite deep in the water.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Wings Across the Sea' [Aerospace Publications, Canberra 1988] p107.
1976: Sea King Mk50 NO 4 releases a Mk44 torpedo - RAN.
3110. The Sea King could carry four Mk44 or Mk45 torpedoes. The big helicopter's marine-shaped under-carriage and flotation tanks are seen to advantage here.
Looking at this photo, and the preceding one of the same aircraft indistress, one can see that in the earlier image it is already sitting quite deep in the water.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Wings Across the Sea' [Aerospace Publications, Canberra 1988] p107.