The Westland Wyvern was a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s and saw action in the 1956 Suez Crisis. It began as a Westland project for a naval strike fighter and was covered by Air Ministry Specification N.11/44 for a long-range naval fighter, with an airframe able to accept a turboprop when a suitable one became available. The prototype W.34, the Wyvern TF.1, first flew at Boscombe Down on 16 December 1946 with Westland test pilot Harald Penrose at the controls. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large contra-rotating propellers and could carry aerial torpedoes.
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The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft
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