Navy Wings Wasp
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Navy Wings Wasp

Westland Wasp · Navy Wings

A 1960s naval scout helicopter, flown as a historic pair with the modern Navy on Thursday and Friday.

The Wasp was designed to operate from tiny frigate decks and hunt submarines with a homing torpedo.

Who flies it

  • Navy Wings pilots

    Historic naval display

    Navy Wings keeps former Fleet Air Arm types flying. The Wasp was built for tiny frigate decks. At Airbourne it pairs with the modern Wildcat — sixty years of naval rotary on the same display line.

Same part of the sky