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PictionID:43931235 - Title:Vertol CH-46D 151910 HC-3 SA07 NASNI 9Jul93 [RJF] - Catalog:17 - Filename:17.S_001381.tif - - ---Image from the René Francillon Photo Archive. Having had his interest in aviation sparked by being at the receiving end of B-24s bombing occupied France when he was 7-yr old, René Francillon turned aviation into both his vocation and avocation. Most of his professional career was in the United States, working for major aircraft manufacturers and airport planning/design companies. All along, he kept developing a second career as an aviation historian, an activity that led him to author more than 50 books and 400 articles published in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere. Far from “hanging on his spurs,” he plans to remain active as an author well into his eighties.-------PLEASE TAG this image with any information you know about it, so that we can permanently store this data with the original image file in our Digital Asset Management System.--------------SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Aircraft Type - Serial - (c/n) . . Agusta Westland EH101 Merlin HC3 - ZJ130 - (50169)
Owner/Operator . . Royal Navy
Location & Date . . Davidstow (X2DM) England UK - 26th April 2018
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Royal Navy's Agusta Westland Merlin HC3 helicopter (ZJ121 / E) helicopter from 846 Naval Air Squadron based at RN's Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset, at the RAF Gibraltar's South Dispersal Ramp following their arrival Gibraltar's International Airport. The two helicopters will be conducting a week's flight training operations from Gibraltar involving student pilots.
18 Squadron,
Royal Air Force.
Over Hampshire, England.
Flown from RAF Odiham
Photographed from another Chinook of 18 Squadron.
The Merlin is a medium-lift helicopter used in both military and civil applications. It was developed by joint venture between Westland Helicopters in the UK and Agusta in Italy in response to national requirements for a modern naval utility helicopter; until 2007, the aircraft had been marketed under the designation EH101. Several operators, including the armed forces of Britain, Denmark and Portugal, use the name Merlin for their AW101 aircraft
A Belgian draft horses show a bit of curiosity as they check out the fellow in the red Jeep along a country road on the outskirts of Menomonie.
A Mk 3 Chinook from RAF Odiham practices landing in a confined area.
The Chinook is a very capable and versatile support helicopter that can be operated in many diverse environments ranging from cold weather ‘arctic’ conditions to desert warfare operations.
The RAF operates the largest fleet of Chinook Support Helicopters after the US Army, with a total of 34 HC2s, 6 HC2As and 8 HC3s (the HC3 has yet to enter operational service). The Chinook Wing, which forms the heavy-lift element of the Joint Helicopter Command (JHC), is based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. Odiham supports three operational squadrons, No 7 Squadron, No 18 Squadron and No 27 Squadron, and the Operational Conversion Flight.
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