Army Air Corps Westland Gazelle Start up and lift off.

Start up and lift off of an Army Air Corps Westland Gazelle.
At City Airport, Barton Aerodrome 11/10/2017.
Filmed on my Canon EOS 70D

[@ryanolden5304]

I love the sound of a gazelle turbomeca Astrazou engine, such a nice compact helicopter, my late farther used to work on these back in the 80s in Germany, when he was in the R.E.M.E, he let me sit in a few when he popped into work on leave holidays. ☺️

[@adriansi1111]

Loved the sound of the Astazou engine!! Rare in these days

[@mikesimmonds1916]

I was just wondering why it was such a distinctive sound.

[@adamgardner8721]

@@mikesimmonds1916 The jet pipe gave the engine the distinctive sound.....when fitted with heat shields it didn't sound the same. The other (most) distinctive sound of the Gazelle is the fenestron, the ducted fan tail rotor

[@ZedsDeadOK]

Fond memories of flying in these specially when navigating whilst NOE.

[@gunner678]

Indeed!

[@Palestina.non.grata86]

The nostalgia is strong here. I grew up in Shropshire, England, and used to hear these all the time around the airbase at RAF Shawbury and near the training camp at MOD Nesscliffe. It's like 1997 all over again.

[@matthiaslambock5956]

❤ the WL Gazelle. It's also an timeless Helicopter like the Bell UH-1D.

[@wcresponder]

Yep...that's definitely a stealth chopper. If you are attacking a deaf enemy.

[@levitated-pit]

in northern ireland had one pilot report ..".gearbox locked up while pushing rotor assembly backwards during preflight checks" he continued with his mission. we got there and changed the box and found a planet gear had broken free and was floating around .... lucky pilot!

[@stewartmilner7100]

Could give you the date if I still had my Logbook, mid 90’s I think.

[@levitated-pit]

@@stewartmilner7100 twas 1982 . the falklands was going on in the background

[@neilgordon3346]

Brings back memories. #belfast hear these for miles

[@richarddepledge960]

great heli. I remember being QRF cmdr in Cookstown NI in 1993. I got re tasked and Gazelle came in to pick me up. I was amazed to see pilot with Para smock and 2 Para dz flash. He had transfered to army air corps! I had a brilliant low level flight. Respect.

[@Hughes500]

Looks and sounds like a proper helicopter!

[@curtissikes4692]

Beautiful aircraft, she was built for speed, she will run.

[@stevecunningham6537]

Had a hedge hopping experience in one in 84, young an daft loved it, Always knew when a gazelle was taking off if you were within half a mile lol.

[@Simon_W74]

Had a ride in the Back as part of Bos training at Sennilager in 98. Nearest I got in Bos was they were Stationed in the same town. The spent the rest of my time in at Wattisham working with 121 ASS, till leaving nearly 20 years ago.

[@alangordon3283]

Time traveler ?

[@gunner678]

Very uncomfortable in the back of this helicopter, particularly with all ones kit piled on the old lap! The only blessing is that it gets there quickly, relatively speaking.

[@levitated-pit]

so many memories there was a valve that sometimes had to be knocked to get the engine to start.... pilots dissaproved

[@milesbrown8016]

Not the only aircraft that one had to knock valves

[@carmenjulietamartinez1625]

BLUE THUNDER

[@seaningram3285]

That's the helicopter that was used. They just built a custom cockpit and added the forward gatling gun and all the other "goodies" used in the movie/TV Series.

[@dkoz8321]

Good Lord that thing is tiny. Its the MG Midget of helicopters. At least modern ones.

[@skootyboy123]

The good old chicken drumstick.

[@kjdphoto1971]

The Whistling Chicken Leg

[@costelhughes1089]

Wow that’s amazing how loud is that

[@andygeorge6065]

Got the Blue Thunder theme tune going in yer head?

[@daveblevins3322]

First IFR certified helicopter I think with an autopilot wasn't it ?

[@oscarwylder]

More ! kovin these heli vids.

[@Bob-dh7bv]

AW top cover 👍

[@caseygray6028]

Wouldn't that be cool if it was painted blue and had a giant 20mm electric cannon capable of firing 4000 rounds a minute on the nose?!

[@pugman07]

This one is "British Thunder"

[@SpamMouse]

Flying Chicken Leg surely !

[@rc3754]

I 'fly' the Gazelle in DCS and always thought it was scaled down in size. I was wrong.

[@wildeastchild]

truly amazing sound!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@TheSilmarallion]

Has a few speed records under her belt

[@TheCraigHudson]

Holy the rotor when resting sits low.

[@hugogayozzo9568]

Excelente

[@followme-helitechnicaldataint]

Love the Gazelle 😍 thank you for sharing

[@flowersofthefield340]

❤❤❤

[@heligeorge]

Nice Helicopter.

[@Alex-wj9ho]

Anyone else looking at this after reading/listening to Tim Peake's Limitless?

[@blueflyer2005]

Flew them for 23 years a dream to fly!

[@aarondengate8085]

Had army gazelle xw847 visit polar helicopters at manston the other day

[@aarondengate8085]

Used to get army gazelles at regular in the 1980s

[@aarondengate8085]

At manston i ment

[@luposolitario940]

Si vede che sono militari e non pagano loro il carburante. 5 minuti di attesa a terra... 😊

[@user-ol1qm9ey7g]

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[@scoutguard3015]

I'm half deaf after this video

[@tomast9034]

that 200mm nail is not for cleaning ears :D

[@najihahnajihah8324]

Nama helikopter

[@kennethaliantluanga1370]

12 Westland gazelle helicopter I fly I trip every monthly send me farm veng district let go

[@AriYanto-ip8wf]

Yg no

[@cyborgbadger1015]

Westland Gazelle? you mean Aerospatiale

[@kjdphoto1971]

No, I mean Westland, the UK Armed forces Gazelles were licence built by Westland. Like the Puma in the UK military.

[@cyborgbadger1015]

Ah ok

[@wor53lg50]

Both joint ventures in devolopment and building, but shares a few bits with aloutte's..

[@m.christinelambourg3411]

westland n'a rien a voir ,c'est aerospatiale france

[@kjdphoto1971]

Ceux en service dans les forces armées britanniques ont été construits par Westland Those in service with the British Armed Forces were built by Westland

[@wor53lg50]

Its a gazelle not allouette, both countries developed and built them together in cooperation....

[@wor53lg50]

When a partnership works to make a great little helo...