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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Culdrose helicopters on HMS Illustrious off Falmouth

While the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious was anchored off Falmouth on Monday, West Briton reporter Graeme Wilkinson was flown onboard to meet the sailors from RNAS Culdrose

AS we came sweeping in off the Lizard and into Falmouth Bay, there was no mistaking the outline of the huge aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious.

I had hitched a ride aboard a Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose Merlin helicopter, courtesy of 814 Naval Air Squadron – the Flying Tigers.

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