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1964
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934 FUCHT International, 4 June 1964 "Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow ... ... and a sigh" Kipling's sentence ends, but even gas-turbine helicopters are not yet as quiet as that. Flitting, shadow-like, through seemingly impenetrable jungle in South Johore, Malaya, is a Westland Scout helicopter (picture 1) of 10 Fit, 656 Sqn, Army Air Corps, flown by Capt Dick Daniel, flight commander. Based at Kluang, the flight recently received its first Scouts and is rapidly finding them the best choppers the Army has yet had, with ample power reserves to overcome high- ambient-temperature effects. For all the thick, vernal drippingness of the Malayan jungle, landing spots for the nimble Nimbus-powered Scouts are not in short supply—small clearings among the lOOft-high vine-entwined trees, as in picture 2, can be used— though helicopter garden parties at Dunsborough Park were never thus. Even more common are firm sandbanks at every bend in the tortuous silt-laden jungle rivers, every one an excellent landing pad (S). Capt Daniel is seen on the relatively wide-open spaces of the Kluang airstrip in (3), and in (4) poses his machine over a small clearing. Commanding the parent unit, 656 Sqn,
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