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This is getting really quite painful to watch now so while no one has 100% got it, there have been a few pretty close guesses as to what's different so I'm just going to tell you now

Technoelite wrote:is it the god dam wessex helichopter which i havent seen before and do we get a Prince Andrew play model with it

Technically, you guys have seen the Westland Wessex before in PR:F, BUT before it was only a reskinned Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw.



Now it has been modified into a proper Wessex (which is a British license built version of the H-34 with quite a few modifications), with a new nose, exhausts, undercarriage and a few other changes here and there and Spush has made a brand new texture for it (texture isn't final yet)



Refs:

I knew it

What is the purpose of the big nose ?

Too fit a much larger engine in it than it was originally designed for

For f*ck sake this chopper is so ugly... (not the model/texture, the chopper itself)

Back in 1954/1956 they didn't have many previous chopper designs to go on for inspiration on how a chopper should look

Those first choppers had HUGE radial petrolengines in the nose, things got a lot better when turboshaft came along which were small enough to go on the top between the load area and rotors.

I didn't know it was the French who started them and the first chopper was the Alouette.

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:Too fit a much larger engine in it than it was originally designed for

typical british helicopter modification.

"well this chopper is jolly good an' all, but couldn't we put a more powerful engine in?"

"by jove you're on to something, we bloody well can!"

AnimalMother. wrote:typical british helicopter modification.

"well this chopper is jolly good an' all, but couldn't we put a more powerful engine in?"

"by jove you're on to something, we bloody well can!"

And then they go about it by adding a nose onto the nose and putting some chicken wire over a hole for an air vent

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:And then they go about it by adding a nose onto the nose and putting some chicken wire over a hole for an air vent

well we wouldn't want it to be straightforward now would we!?

AnimalMother. wrote:typical british helicopter modification.

"well this chopper is jolly good an' all, but couldn't we put a more powerful engine in?"

"by jove you're on to something, we bloody well can!"

Hey it worked for the apache!

Westlands have gotten better at it over the years

I noticed that.

Navo wrote:
Also, what is that bulb on the tugboa- Wessex's nose?

Navo wrote:I noticed that.

yes but you didn't say it was that