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Tail-take-off, He's still a spotty schoolboy!!! A ginger one, aswell!
Davy07, unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332.
Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course.
Davy07, unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332.
Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course.
unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332.
Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course.
Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course.
I always love watching this Medic S-76 landing, god it sounds class
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKFF1bvlqNk
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The Evening Standard's Bristow Operated WS51 with it's unfortunate registration:
(photo: Augusta Westland)
(photo: Augusta Westland)
Last edited by Tail-take-off; 29th Nov 2007 at 09:01. Reason: Corrected aircraft type - thanks Plank Cap
Reckon pilots flying that one were the butt of some jokes?
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Tail Take Off - the butt of all jokes she must have been, but a Widgeon, I think not. The Widgeon had a rather more pointy nose; G-ANAL appears to be a Dragonfly/S51.
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Hi All,
If anyone wants to check the type, current registration or past registrations of any helicopter, I can recommend the Rotorspot website. It has historic helicopter registers for almost all countries:
http://www.geocities.com/rotorspot/historic.htm
Regarding G-ANAL, it later became G-ANZL (wonder if it was reregistered because it was the butt of many jokes?!, and later written-off). Here's the entry from Rotorspot:
G-ANAL Westland-Sikorsky 51 Dragonfly Mk.1A (construction number WA/H/90) G-ANAL,G-ANZL · · · · · » [w/o]
Regards,
David Eyre
If anyone wants to check the type, current registration or past registrations of any helicopter, I can recommend the Rotorspot website. It has historic helicopter registers for almost all countries:
http://www.geocities.com/rotorspot/historic.htm
Regarding G-ANAL, it later became G-ANZL (wonder if it was reregistered because it was the butt of many jokes?!, and later written-off). Here's the entry from Rotorspot:
G-ANAL Westland-Sikorsky 51 Dragonfly Mk.1A (construction number WA/H/90) G-ANAL,G-ANZL · · · · · » [w/o]
Regards,
David Eyre
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Thanks for the correction Plank Cap. The WS51 was a bit before my time. I got my info from here:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...regmark=G-ANAL
where it is listed as type WS51, popular name Widgeon.
Perhaps someone should tell the CAA!
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...regmark=G-ANAL
where it is listed as type WS51, popular name Widgeon.
Perhaps someone should tell the CAA!
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S76 Conversion. Norwich/WPB 2007
Some pics, taken this summer, while doing conversion training on the S76A+ followed by a C+ sim conversion.
Norwich. July 2007
West Palm Beach. August 2007
G-BIBG at Norwich
G-BIBG
Norwich Hangar
Getting Set for some night deck landing practice.
S76C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida.
S76 C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida
Norwich. July 2007
West Palm Beach. August 2007
G-BIBG at Norwich
G-BIBG
Norwich Hangar
Getting Set for some night deck landing practice.
S76C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida.
S76 C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida
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Ah, FSI in Palm Beach. The catered lunch on a Thursday, infinite cookies in the afternoons straight from the oven. Sod the sims and groundschool, I put on at least a stone in weight while I was there.
How's Malaysia anyway dude?
H
PS: not being picky, ok pedantic maybe, but that's a 92 sim in that there photo.
76 one's never looked that shiny, too many GOMERs knockin'em about.
How's Malaysia anyway dude?
H
PS: not being picky, ok pedantic maybe, but that's a 92 sim in that there photo.
76 one's never looked that shiny, too many GOMERs knockin'em about.
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You're right!! 92 sim it is?? 
There are some 'eagle-eyes' out there!
They all looked the same to me from the outside! Maybe, I was too busy with the cookies to notice the differences.
Rather than editing the post or removing the pic, if you look at the photo while shaking your head from side to side rapidly, and blinking simultaneously, it's a dead ringer for the 76C+ sim!!!!
There are some 'eagle-eyes' out there!They all looked the same to me from the outside! Maybe, I was too busy with the cookies to notice the differences.
Rather than editing the post or removing the pic, if you look at the photo while shaking your head from side to side rapidly, and blinking simultaneously, it's a dead ringer for the 76C+ sim!!!!
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As Chief Eng of G-APWN in 1978 I noticed that the paint scheme of the pax door didn't match the rest of the aircraft, around that time we lost a pax door over Reigate Hill, we had a few problems with loose doors and it wasn't until a student pilot mentioned that he had kicked the emergency door release with his right foot whilst trying to find the step that we realised we had found the problem. This would have occurred after the aircraft had been pre-flighted so the damaged safety wire would not have been found. G-APWN is now at Coventry.
I also had WN in Abu Dhabi in the early 70's, I did a test flight with Jerry Beecher RIP as we had had several computer faults, we took off and climbed to about 100 feet when the engine ran down Jerry, of course, immediately raised the collective but we were sinking fast, I was shouting go into manual (throttle) when suddenly the effect of raising the collective came in just before we were going to hit the ground rather hard and we fortunately landed softly. After looking at the actions taken in the past we changed the loom between the computer and the throttle actuator and solved all the previous intermittent problems. Jerry was a good friend, we hacked our way around the Abu Dhabi golf course for months. The greens were brown and the only grass was found in the bunkers. After playing the round, in the nineteenth hole, the Club supplied salt tablets with bottles of filtered water, we dutifully dissolved these tablets in a glass of water and drank them until we tasted the salt in the belief that we had replaced the salt that we had lost whilst playing in 120 degrees F. I have never found out if we were right?
I also had WN in Abu Dhabi in the early 70's, I did a test flight with Jerry Beecher RIP as we had had several computer faults, we took off and climbed to about 100 feet when the engine ran down Jerry, of course, immediately raised the collective but we were sinking fast, I was shouting go into manual (throttle) when suddenly the effect of raising the collective came in just before we were going to hit the ground rather hard and we fortunately landed softly. After looking at the actions taken in the past we changed the loom between the computer and the throttle actuator and solved all the previous intermittent problems. Jerry was a good friend, we hacked our way around the Abu Dhabi golf course for months. The greens were brown and the only grass was found in the bunkers. After playing the round, in the nineteenth hole, the Club supplied salt tablets with bottles of filtered water, we dutifully dissolved these tablets in a glass of water and drank them until we tasted the salt in the belief that we had replaced the salt that we had lost whilst playing in 120 degrees F. I have never found out if we were right?
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