A Westland Wessex HU.5 helicopter with an underslung load over the coast near Penarek, Trengganu, Malaysia, during exercise Bersatu Padu
A distant view of the Fleet Air Arm Westland Wessex HU.5 helicopter coded C/S with an underslung load in flight over a road by the east coast of Malaysia near Penarek, Terengganu, during the exercise Bersatu Padu. The HU.5 is one of 19 from 847 or 848 Naval Air Squadrons from the Royal Navy commando carrier Bulwark (1948) which took part in the exercise and it is carrying a section of flexible roadway. The head and shoulders of an unidentified man, possibly Desmond Wettern or another journalist, is in the foreground.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7927/27 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Date made: | June 1970 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |