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Dave Gibbings
Dave Gibbings
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and recalls how well the Yeovil factory responded to the Falklands War in 1982
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-Falklands-.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and recalls using a slide rule to make his calculations
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-slide-rule-office-equipment.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and recalls when everyone arriving for work at the Yeovil factory had to 'clock in'
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-clocking-in-2.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and remembers one of his heroes, the renowned aircraft designer, W.E.W. Petter
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-1930s-W-W-Petter-.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and remembers the bravery of Harald Penrose who was Westland's Chief Test pilot from 1931 to 1953
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-Harold-Penrose-.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and remembers the Dragonfly being the first helicopter to be built at the Yeovil factory
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-beginning-of-heli-production-industry-rationalisation-.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and remembers when the Wapiti was built at the Yeovil factory
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-Wappitti-naming-aircraft-.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and remembers when work started building the Apache AH-64 Longbow helicopter
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-Apache-.mp3
Dave Gibbings is a former Chief Flight Test Engineer at Westland and remembers working on the Lynx Helicopter at the start of his career
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Dave-Gibbings-Lynx-.mp3
Contributors
Joe Conway
Dave Gibbings
Colin Hague
Michael Heseltine
Susan Lewis
Pat Procter and Pamela Mead
June Coleman
Geoff Byham
Clive Guest
Mini Ostler
Millie Beale
Ian Pavey
Colin Rose
Paul Murley
David Angulo
Norman Pilton
Ronnie White
John Groves
Dave Calway
Val Edmunds
Harry Ridgewell
Bob Brooks
Stephen Petter
Liz Capper
Ian Penrose
Hannah Nobbs
Don Berrington
Paul Haig
Jack Sweet
Jane Egginton
Joseph Lewis