Last Training on the Royal Navy's Merlin Mk1 Helicopter

The final batch of Royal Navy Merlin aircrew are now completing years of arduous training off the Cornish coast on the Merlin Mk1 helicopter before the Fleet Air Arm gets the next-generation version of the helicopter. Eighteen trainee pilots, observers and aircrewmen from 824 Naval Air Squadron at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose are spending five weeks flying on, off and around aviation training ship Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Argus. They are the last crews to train on the Mk1 variant

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