A Wessex Mk318with its main rotor folded and stowed in cradles on the rear fuselage.

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Westland Wessex Mk31A

Commodore Norman Lee continues his series of articles on aircraft he flew during his service with the Fleet Air

Shortly after my conversion to helicopters I was posted to No 1 Wessex course at NAS Nowra; the members of this course were destined to form the first front line Wessex squadron on completion.

The Wessex Mk31 was an anti submarine helicof)ter equipped with dunking sonar which had a crew of four; two pilots, an observer who also navigated the aircraft and controlled it during anti submarine operations, and a sonar operator.

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