WESTLAND DRAGONFLY & WIDGEON

Westland’s first military and civil helicopter products, derivatives of the Sikorsky S-51 HOOKS’ TOURS Mike Hooks began his aviation photography career in 1945 with a simple box camera, moving on to an Ensign folding camera in about 1948, and later to a Voigtlander Vito B. He converted to colour in the 1950s, and went on to build one of the UK’s most extensive archives of Kodachrome transparencies MAIN IMAGE: Lined up at Blackbushe in July 1965 following the type’s withdrawal