Leonardo AW159 Wildcat

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as ZZ533, a Leonardo (AgustaWestland) AW159 Wildcat HMA2 of the Fleet Air Arm’s 815 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Yeovilton, flying with HMS Westminster’s flight: the Lynx’s Yeovil-built successor, with the Lynx’s cabin behind a longer nose carrying the Seaspray 7400E radar in a chin radome and an electro-optical turret on the nose shelf, two LHTEC CTS800 turboshafts in bulged cowlings with outward-facing intakes and upswept exhausts, a four-bladed BERP IV main rotor, a new tail boom with a swept tail pylon, the four-bladed tail rotor on the port side and a tailplane with large end plates, sponson pods either side of the cabin and wheeled tricycle undercarriage with a deck-lock harpoon: plain medium grey overall with low-visibility roundels, pale grey ‘ROYAL NAVY’ and ‘ZZ533’ on the tail boom, black ‘HMS WESTMINSTER’ on the radome, the ship’s crest on the nose, red and white danger triangles and a yellow rescue arrow, as photographed at ILA Berlin in June 2019 (shape from a published three-view checked against photographs of ZZ533 and ZZ529; main rotor parked at 45 degrees; no weapons fitted, as in the photographs). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 287 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 286 in The Hangar