First Lynx receives a makeover

WHEN it comes to the Navy’s fastest helicopter, this is Genesis.

This is XX910 and, depending on which source you use, is the first – or second – naval Lynx.

And to mark the Lynx’s 40th birthday, this prototype is being restored to how it looked back in the 1970s by a team from RNAS Yeovilton.

For the past decade the helicopter has been looked after by the Helicopter Museum in Weston-super -Mare.

They snapped up the prototype when it was no longer needed by the test pilots and evaluators at Boscombe Down. They picked up an aircraft which had been rather neglected – for a start XX910 was missing its tail boom.

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