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	Westland Whirlwind (fixed wing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gloster, Hawker and Westland all responded, with the Gloster F.9/37 and Westland F.37/35 designs given the go-ahead (Hawker was busy with the Hurricane).
		Westland's design team, under the new leadership of Teddy Petter (who later designed the English Electric Canberra and Lightning), returned a plane that employed state-of-the-art technology.
		The Air Ministry then ordered a new purpose-built high-altitude fighter with a pressurized cockpit, and Westland responded with a modified Whirlwind known as the Welkin However the Germans called off the attacks, unaware of the British problems, and the Welkin was produced in an even more limited number, only 77.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westland_Whirlwind_%28fixed_wing%29 (960 words)

	Encyclopedia: Westland Welkin
		The Welkin was essentially an evolution of the Whirlwind, fitted with a much larger wing, new engines in the form of Rolls Royce Merlin 76/77's, and a pressurized cockpit.
		The wings were so large that the Fowler flaps used on the Whirlwind weren't needed, and were replaced by a simple split-flap.
		The Welkin was seriously handicapped by compressibility problems exacerbated by its long but thick wings, causing the flyable speed range between high-incidence stall and shock-stall to become very small at high altitudes - any decrease in airspeed causing a 'normal' stall, any increase causing a shock-stall due to the aircraft's limiting critical Mach number.
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	Encyclopedia: Westland-Aircraft
		Westland would then go on to be the major designers of the Supermarine Seafire, a navalized conversion of the Spitfire.
		The Westland affair was a political crisis for the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1986.
		Westland Wasp The Westland Wasp was a general purpose helicopter, basically a derivative of the British Army Scout helicopter, with the requirement of being small enough to land on Royal Navy frigates.
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		whirlwind whirlwind, revolving mass of air resulting from local atmospheric instability, such as that caused by intense heating of the ground by the sun on a hot summer day.
		Examples of whirlwinds are waterspouts, tornadoes, small whirls of dust or leaves, and the sand whirls of the desert, called dust devils or dust whirls.
		For example, the wing of a bird is analogous to the wing of an insect, since both are used for flight.
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	Westland Whirlwind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There have been two Westland Whirlwind aircraft in Royal Air Force history.
		For the fixed wing WWII aircraft, see Westland Whirlwind (fixed_wing).
		For the rotary wing postwar aircraft, see Westland Whirlwind (rotary wing).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westland_Whirlwind (98 words)

	Westland Insurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr Westland has professional experience in the US as a certified public accountant and as a consultant in informational services in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia, and sits on the editorial board of several of the leading academic journals in informational technology.
		Westland (population: 97,270 in 2004) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
		Westland is also the name of an area, which is known for its flowers and vegetables, and in Honselersdijk is the worlds largest company that sales flowers by auction settled, FloraHolland, which has as well a location in Rijnsburg.
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	Westland Whirlwind (fixed wing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Whirlwind was an small twin-engine heavy fighter from the Westland Aircraft company.
		Westland's design team, under the new leadership of Teddy Petter (who later designed the English Electric Canberra and Lightning), returned a plane that looked far more modern than it's contemporaries like the Hurricane.
		The main qualities the RAF were looking for in a twin was range and ordinance load (for radar), which the Bristol Beaufighter could do just as well as the Whirlwind.
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	Westland Whirlwind (fixed wing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Westland's design team, under the new leadership of Teddy Petter (who later designed the English Electric Canberra and Lightning), returned a plane that looked far moremodern than it's contemporaries like the Hurricane.
		In the end only 116 Whirlwinds were produced in total, arming two squadrons (No. 263 Squadron RAF inJuly 1940 and No. 137Squadron RAF in November 1941).
		The Air Ministry then ordered a new purpose-builthigh-altitude fighter with a pressurized cockpit, and Westland responded with a modified Whirlwind known as the Welkin However the Germans called off the attacks, unaware of the Britishproblems, and the Welkin was produced in an even more limited number, only 77.
	www.therfcc.org /westland-whirlwind-fixed-wing--119813.html (904 words)

	Classic Airframes 1/48 Westland Whirlwind
		Aircraft: When you hear the name "Westland Whirlwind" you have to ask whether it's of the fixed or rotary wing variety as the name is also given to a helicopter.
		The trailing edge of the main wing is thin as it should be - a distinctive trait of this aircraft.
		The wings are broken into a number of pieces with a large underwing section and two outer panels and upper wing halves.
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	Airfix 1/72 Westland Whirlwind mk.1
		When you hear the name "Westland Whirlwind" you have to ask whether it's of the fixed or rotary wing variety as the name is also given to a helicopter.
		However, this Westland Whirlwind is the early fighter design for RAF in WW2.
		Wing loading was high, which made manoeuvrability poor as a fighter.
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	Westland Aircraft
		Despite good support from the British establishment the company gradually fell into unprofitability, Sikorsky approached with a bail-out deal in 1985 that split the cabinet and lead to the resignation of Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine in January 1986 over the fate of Britain's sole helicopter manufacturer.
		Recently examples of the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter have also been built by Westland although, beset by problems, some technical ones arising from specific UK requirements, these have yet to become operational with the Army Air Corps.
		GKN plc bought into Westland in 1988, initially acquiring a stake owned by Hanson plc they soon acquired the shares owned by Fiat which gave them absolute control.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/westland_aircraft (594 words)

	South Somerset District Council, Museums and Heritage Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Westland decided to upgrade their existing Limousine to include a pilot and five passengers, and Limousine III was entered in the ‘small' aircraft competition which took place in 1920.
		Controversy over whether Westland should be financially linked with a United States company or to be similarly associated in Europe, led to the resignation of two government ministers in 1986, but the result was a strengthening of the company's ties with its long-term associates, the American Sikorsky company.
		More recently, Westland has demonstrated its ability in the design field by achieving the world air speed record for helicopters with a new type of rotor-blade configuration, and currently, in addition to the EH101, the Sikorsky Black Hawk is under development.
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	Westland History
		This same year saw the last fixed wing design (the Wyvern) and Westland had produced about 6000 aircraft before it decided to concentrate on excellence in rotary wing airframes.
		A similar improvement approach produced the Whirlwind (from the S-55) and the Wessex (from the S-58), which was also re-engineered for gas turbine operations.
		Westland acquired Bristol Helicopters, Fairey Aviation and Saunders-Roe to transform itself into Westland Helicopters with plants at Yeovil, Weston-super-Mare, Eastleigh and Hayes.
	www.helis.com /timeline/westland.php (477 words)

	Westland Giftware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Westland is a city located in Wayne County, Michigan.
		Generally every camping in Westland is full in the summer, because Westland is near Scheveningen, but still cheaper.
		Therefore it is the only city in Westland, however Naaldwijk is larger.
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	Westland Whirlwind
		This is a disambigulation page, since there have been two Westland Whirlwind aircraft in Royal Air Force history.
		For the fixed wing WWII aircraft, see Westland_Whirlwind_(fixed_wing).
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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	Classis Airframes 1/48 Westland Whirlwind I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Westland Whirlwind began life as a design to meet the British Air Ministry’s 1935 specification for a fast attack fighter armed with four cannons.
		When attaching the upper wing halves I found that they are slightly too tall and had to bend them towards the trailing edge to allow the wing surfaces to join.
		The Whirlwind was also capable of handling a small bomb load of 453kg on under wing racks outboard of the engines.
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	WESTLAND WHIRLWIND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Westland Whirlwind helicopter was a British-built version of the US Sikorsky S-55.
		The first prototype British Whirlwind HAR 1 flew in August 1953, with the 600hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp R-1340-40, and it entered service shortly afterwards.
		From its start with the Navy, the Whirlwind came to be used by the British Army and RAF.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/WESTLAND+WHIRLWIND (328 words)

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	Scale Westland Whirlwind
		To match the duelist's 67 in span, 795 sq in wing area the whirlwind would have a 78 inch span for a 799 sq in area.
		But the Westland Whirlwind HAR series is the British license built version of the Sikorsky S-55 helicopter.
		The high aspect ratio wing is a plus and the horizontal and vertical tail aread appear ample to do the job.
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	►► Fixed Hurricane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The attractive sentinel exhibited a fixed red light from its sixth order Fresnel lens, with a focal plane height of 50 feet.
		Westland Whirlwind (fixed wing) - Home Encylopedia Directory eShowcase Sitemap Privacy Contact Us Enyclopedia Home
		The fuselage was a small tube with a t-tail at the end, built completely of stressed-skin monocoque...
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	Helicopter in Suez
		However, the most significant role was used on the 6th November, when five hundred men of No.45 Royal Marine Commando were airlifted by helicopter from the two light fleet carriers H.M.S. Ocean and H.M.S. Theseus to land on a patch of waste ground beside De Lesseps statue in Port Said in the first helicopter-brone assault.
		The hcliopters were 8 Westland Whirlwinds of No.845 NAS, but these were reinforced by helicopters from a joint Army and RAF trails unit which had 6 Westland Whirlwind and 6 Bristol Sycamore helicopters.
		As soon as the Shackleton had passed, two Royal Navy Whirlwind helicopters, which were already airborne, picked up the waterproof container and had these safely aboard the ship within minutes of the drop being made.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /suez/helo.html (372 words)

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	Queen's Flight Wessex
		Westland Wessex HCC.4, XV733, formerly of The Queen's Flight, was delivered to the Museum on a low-loader, by the Royal Navy, on 15th November 2001.
		Since The Queen's Flight was privatised the helicopter had been with a civil contractor, in storage at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire.
		Whirlwind XR486 was on static display at RAF Fairford, as part of the Royal International Air Tattoo '100 Years of Flight' feature, for the weekend of 18th - 20th July 2003.
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	Cybermodeler Online - White Ensign Models' Airstrike 700 Series
		The first two are fixed wing aircraft, the Grumman A-6 Intruder (AS7026) and the LTV A-7 Corsair II (AS7025).
		An optional photo-etched detail set (PE715) for their fixed wing aircraft add landing gear and other eye-pleasing details to your aircraft.
		The second two samples are from their rotary wing line-up, the Westland Whirlwind (AS7042) and the Bell UH-1D/H Iroquois (AS7029).
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	Fixed Plane
		The new beacon had a fixed white light at a focal plane of 50 feet.
		A serious problem for air planners of the 1930s was that you could build a nimble plane only if it was small.
		One other interesting specification was that the plane needed to keep wing loading below 100kg/m², which is a way of defining the plane's ability to...
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	Land Rover FAQ - Vehicle Identification - Lightweights
		The idea for a vehicle, light enough to be carried by helicopter and fixed wing aircraft came about in the 1950's.
		The British Royal marines were using Citroen 2CV pick-ups, flying them ashore from their Commando ships slung beneath Westland "Whirlwind" helicopters.
		New lighting regulations in many countries where the Lightweight was expected to see service resulted in the relocation of the lights to redesigned wings.
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	Royal Navy: History
		The Squadron's last fixed wing aircraft was the Gannet,
		which gave way to the Westland Whirlwind in 1958.
		The more capable Wessex Mk1s arrived in 1961 when the Squadron participated in operations in East Africa and the Indonesian coast.
	www.royalnavy.mod.uk /static/pages/4511.html (320 words)

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