Algerian war helicopters

Brill – thanks Olivier

TT

Plus or minus three is pretty close for an eggbeater hater. :p

Wossthedifference?

Moggy

HHMMPPHH! 😡

Rock Apes tended to wave when you went to picked them up, but then scared witless when asked to disembark via a small bit of string.

What’s Green and turns red?

A Grunt running downhill towards a Helicopter!

Ah, looking at it, memory floods back. Wessex / Paraffin Parrot

Stupid. :rolleyes:

Moggy

S-55=Whirlwind in the RAF & CH-16 in USAF, S-58=Wessex in RAF & CH-34 in USAF

Moggy,

I know you have a very high regard for choppers and please do not excommunicate me for saying this but those S-55s are S-58s.

Glyn

Plus or minus three is pretty close for an eggbeater hater. :p

Wossthedifference?

Moggy

Propstrike
if I remember correctly native Algerians (mostly Arabs) wanted separation from France, the colonial power. The usual uprising followed, with French European settlers wishing to remain linked to France complicating things. A nasty conflict dragged on for years until de Gaulle came to power and realised the inevitable, and granted independance in the early sixties (?)

Forgive the ignorance, but who were the ‘players’ in this conflict?

I forgive you Propstrike, don’t worry,
Algerian War was an independance war that involved Algerians and French between 1954 to 1962.

Cheers,

Olivier

Moggy,

I know you have a very high regard for choppers and please do not excommunicate me for saying this but those S-55s are S-58s.

Glyn

Great pictures NC900, these small wars are all to often forgotten but the people who served and died there should not be.

Rgds Cking

Great pictures.

However hard they try S55s don’t ever appear very aggressive. You’d wave at them rather than open fire.

Moggy

Forgive the ignorance, but who were the ‘players’ in this conflict?