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1959
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flight, U September J959 Air mobility with the Westminster The Westminster is the largest conventional helicopter in the Western world. It has the ability to transport as many as 51 fully-equipped troops and to convey mobile field units such as hospitals, food kitchens, living huts, vehicle servicing centres and operations rooms from supply bases to assault areas. It may also be used to recover unserviceable aircraft and ground vehicles and to transport complete missiles from storage units to firing sites. All these capabilities meet the requirements of modern army, naval and air operations. The Westminster is powered by two Napier "Eland" gas turbine engines and can operate with full payload on one of them if need be. The picture shows a section of an assault floating bridge weighing 6,736 Ib. being transported. WESTLAND a great name in twEL wC VJ 9 / tKj WESTLAN D AIRCRAFT LIMITED YEO VI L SOMERSET
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