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Arising from other threads I thought it would be interesting to give everyone a blank piece of
paper and see what helicopters Westland should have made over the years.
The helicopter that became EH 101 and started life as WG 34 has replaced both the Seaking and the Wessex in RAF and RN service. Could Westland have got its act together and produced such a helicopter earlier? After all France and Italy both produced their own (Sa330 and Ab 101)?
Alternatively would Westland have been better off acknowledging its reliance on US technology and simply following the Italian route of licence building successful US designs?
I am deliberately excluding the Anglo French options (see my previous thread now discussing something called AFVG- not a helicopter methinks)
paper and see what helicopters Westland should have made over the years.
The helicopter that became EH 101 and started life as WG 34 has replaced both the Seaking and the Wessex in RAF and RN service. Could Westland have got its act together and produced such a helicopter earlier? After all France and Italy both produced their own (Sa330 and Ab 101)?
Alternatively would Westland have been better off acknowledging its reliance on US technology and simply following the Italian route of licence building successful US designs?
I am deliberately excluding the Anglo French options (see my previous thread now discussing something called AFVG- not a helicopter methinks)