The view from our Wildcat Helicopter , 815 NAS can confirm the drugs busting
@HMSDragon
🐉 🔥 is safety home 🇬🇧
@HMNBPortsmouth
Welcome home all, enjoy well deserved leave with loved ones after 7 months operational at sea
#FlyNavy
🚁⚓️
@RoyalNavy
More warplanes than ever before have embarked on
@RoyalNavy
aircraft carrier
@HMSQNLZ
Two F-35B squadrons have landed on ahead of NATO's largest annual exercise. 🌊 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@HMSQNLZ
will be at the heart of a UK-led NATO Carrier Strike Group.
@MartinJConnell
@CdreGriff
50 Years Today!
“It’s been absolutely fantastic would do it all again”
At 16 CPO Andy Vanes joined
@RoyalNavy
1970 as a chef, becoming an Aircrewman in 1977. 9200 flying hrs in 9 aircraft types inc 100 hrs on the only flying Mk1 Swordfish. Currently
@845NAS
#flynavy
💪👏🚁⚓️
“It’s frequently difficult to breathe. Your clothes, in fact the entire aircraft, stinks of smoke & everyone is exhausted.”
@RoyalNavy
helicopter pilot, Lt Cdr Grimmer from
@RNASCuldrose
has been flying for up to 10 hrs a day alongside
@Australian_Navy
colleagues
212 Wildcat Flight touchdown in the sunshine at 815 NAS after 7 months away embarked
@HMSDragon
@RoyalNavy
having been instrumental as part of the ‘Team’ achieving a record 8 drugs busts the biggest haul ever for RN in the Middle East. £145m! Welcome home
#FlyNavy
🚁⚓️
Iconic Junglie Sea Kings of Commando Helicopter Force bowed out of active duties on this day 21 March 2016 with a farewell fly-past around southern & south-west England
5 hrs & 475-mile circuit from home
@RNASYeovilton
‘Fear God Honour The King’
#flynavy
@OnthisdayRN
@RoyalNavy
846 NAS Merlin iMK3
There won’t be many more images like this on Commando Helicopter Force based
@RNASYeovilton
as the green MK3 Merlin quickly become a memory. Here captured during training last week.
#flynavy
🚁⚓️
@co_chf
@CdreGriff
@846NAS
@845NAS
📸 Cpl ‘Matty’ Matthews RAF.
There are airfields...and then there is this airfield. Four acres of 🇬🇧 alongside Norfolk, Virginia, with 845 NAS of CHF
@RNASYeovilton
embarked.
@HMSQnlz
soon to start flight trials with F35 Lightning II, supported by
#fleetairarm
#flynavy
🚁⚓️
#flynavy
Fancy a dunkin?!
Have you heard of the “Dunker”?
It is the Fleet Air Arms Underwater Escape Training Unit at
@RNASYeovilton
which simulates what to do to escape from a
#helicopter
underwater. First class training prepares you for every eventuality
#flynavy
🚁⚓️
@RoyalNavy
MONDAY HAS LANDED!
A Wildcat HMA2
@RoyalNavy
newest Helicopter with the Wildcat Maritime Force carrying out deck landing training on Type 45 in the English Channel
Wildcat operate on 815 & 825 Naval Air Squadron at Yeovilton & deploy globally
@SiWilson_Flying
#flynavy
🚁⚓️
On 8 Dec 2004, 4 members of
@HMSPortland
Lynx Helicopter Flight lost their lives when their aircraft crashed off the Lizard Peninsula 8 Dec 2004, responding to ‘man overboard’
Lt David Cole,Lt Robert Dunn,Lt Jamie Mitchell & LAEM Richard Darnell
#wewillrememberthem
A CAB WITH A VIEW 👀
Ringside
@HMSQNLZ
a Commando Merlin, 845 NAS
@RNASYeovilton
Commander Bob Bond, Commanding Officer of 845 NAS flew the Chief Defence Staff
@DefenceHQ
to HMS QNLZ at sea with his Italian 🇮🇹 counterpart. Awesome F35B take off!
@MartinJConnell
#FlyNavy
Our aircrew aren’t the only aviators that have to warm their engines in the morning!
Shay the Peregrine Falcon (one of the working birds in our Wildlife Control Unit) stretches his wings ahead of his morning flight. His job is to keep wild birds clear of the runway.
#Falconry
Commando Merlin, primary role to provide Rotary Wing support to
@royalmarines
& other UK force elements in the amphibious environments.
Commando Helicopter Force is 3 Naval Air Squadrons, 845 & 846 Merlin, 847 NAS Wildcat
#FlyNavy
💪🏻🚁⚓️
@ComdJHC
@co_chf
@RoyalNavy
Today Chief Petty Officer Andy Vanes received the QVRM - Queens Volunteer Reserves Medal for exemplary performance. He has served nearly 50 years
@RoyalNavy
& currently on 845 NAS received the honour from the Duke of Cambridge with Partner Carol & two Sons Congratulations 👏🏻🎖
Bring on
#WildcatWednesday
!
This helicopter performs a range of tasks, used in a anti surface warfare , force protection , counter piracy and in an anti-submarine role. The cutting edge of worldwide maritime operations from
@RoyalNavy
ships from
@815NAS
@RNASYeovilton
#flynavy
HRH The Princess of Wales
@KensingtonRoyal
was introduced to naval aviation today as Commodore in Chief of the Fleet Air Arm with a visit to
@RNASYeovilton
featuring F-35s, Merlins, Wildcats, drones - and the men and women behind them.
SAY HELLO TO OUR EASTER CHICK!
Our newest recruit has joined the Bird Control Unit (BCU) pictured at 1 day old & we are looking for a name?
The chick will train & join the
@RNASYeovilton
BCU flying squad of 4 Falcons to prevent ‘Bird Strikes’
#EasterChick
#FlyNavy
🦅⚓️
Today the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Almeda Star en route from Liverpool to Trinidad when attacked by a German U-boat. The ship & all hands lost inc 21 officers & 121 ratings of
#FleetAirArm
transiting to HMS Goshawk.
#LestWeForget
More:
🚁Confined landing. Essential Fleet Air Arm operational capability whether at sea embarked in a Ship
@RoyalNavy
supporting humanitarian disaster relief or at home over our varied landscapes.
#flynavy
skills 💪
@CdreGriff
@MartinJConnell
Today at The Fleet Air Arm Memorial Church, the funeral & thanksgiving service of Hon. Vice Admiral Sir Donald Gosling KCVO RNR Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom was held.
A small, private family funeral at St Bartholomew’s, Yeovilton celebrating the life of Sir Donald. RIP Sir