Westland Wasp XT787 short flight 23 August 2018

After an afternoon`s brief and walk around of the Wasp, two of us had a brief flight from our venue back to a small landing strip. Here`s a video of startup, take off the low level flight, landing and shutdown.

[@southafricannavalmuseum358]

Love it. Thanks for great footage and keeping the Wasp "alive". The South African Air Force was the biggest export customer (17). They were flown from the ships of the South African Navy from 1964 to 1990.

[@gregbess5763]

Fantastic Gents !! Very inspiring !

[@jeffchampion6043]

Greg Bess ...was awesome experience

[@gregbess5763]

Definitely have a way to go before mine is airborne !!

[@MrKEITHBT]

Superb.

[@jeffchampion6043]

It was!

[@flappingarms9335]

My first ever flight experience was in a RN Wasp for my 16th birthday. Boy did it shake a lot.

[@johncruickshank1969]

How did you manage to get a flight?