Bristow Photos
Amos Keeto
Try this chap, he may be able to help. He is mainly interested in Borneo or Singapore but PM him and see what he says.
I have a dedicated Nikon Coolscan slide scanner and can make good quality scans for you that I can put on a CD, so you can upload them here or make prints from them as you wish?
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I also wish you a happy and long retirement. We had manycockpit hours together in the S61 and the early (1982) days of the 332L before I went 76 ing. I also remember trying to use the old S61 HF as a CB when it was a brief craze in 1981 with you....great times John.
Haverford West used to be reserved for Al Logan whenever we used to detach an S76 from GY to go there!
Anyone know if Al is still around (although long retired) Never forget having to re write the flight log because it wasn't neat enough! He ended up as one of the best line trainers, when in management I used to sentence all my delinquent co pilots to a month with Al....bless him.
Have fun my friend and congrats on 40 years and 22k hours, quite an achievement.
I also wish you a happy and long retirement. We had manycockpit hours together in the S61 and the early (1982) days of the 332L before I went 76 ing. I also remember trying to use the old S61 HF as a CB when it was a brief craze in 1981 with you....great times John.
Haverford West used to be reserved for Al Logan whenever we used to detach an S76 from GY to go there!
Anyone know if Al is still around (although long retired) Never forget having to re write the flight log because it wasn't neat enough! He ended up as one of the best line trainers, when in management I used to sentence all my delinquent co pilots to a month with Al....bless him.
Have fun my friend and congrats on 40 years and 22k hours, quite an achievement.
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Its a bit scary what we used to get up to in the old days but it was fun and never dangerous. CB-ing days. Oh yes. Came across my old CB set the other day. I wonder.......... 
Al Logan. Gosh, I remember his immaculate turnout whatever the weather. Even his little cottage outside Kintore was as immaculate as he was. I havent heard of Al. Maybe someone in cyber world can update us
Yes I am taking it nice and easy and as I have said before, if you are ever down this way, PM me and we'll have a beer or 3.
John
Al Logan. Gosh, I remember his immaculate turnout whatever the weather. Even his little cottage outside Kintore was as immaculate as he was. I havent heard of Al. Maybe someone in cyber world can update us
Yes I am taking it nice and easy and as I have said before, if you are ever down this way, PM me and we'll have a beer or 3.
John
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Yes, sad news about Dick. I worked with Dick in Iran 1969 - 1971
I got the news from Ursula the other day. He had not been well for a little while. All his family were at his bedside when he passed away.
John
I got the news from Ursula the other day. He had not been well for a little while. All his family were at his bedside when he passed away.
John
Swamp Rats
Good to see you all! Some great anecdotes and pics on this thread. Just need somebody to write a book from the perspective of the guys out on the front line. It took me all weekend to browse through the thread, just to see what was here already.
This brings back memories of putting together the original "skyweaver" website, struggling with "old" modern technology. All done without broadband!! Some of those 50k images used to take me 30 minutes to upload on a 56k modem and a noisy BT internet connection.
Just spent two the last evenings getting my PPrune and Picture Bucket accounts up and running, not to mention trying to get my head around the complicated procedure for posting the pics
So, let's see if I have got the hang of this....
Swamp Rats
A short story by Kev Pickering ...
"Wessex ended up in a swamp after T/Rotor servo failure. Myself (KP) and three others were dispatched from Redhill to retrieve spares as Wessex spares were rare. We were given the name "Swamp Rats" and were presented with a wooden plaque carved by a BHL fixed wing pilot. This was to have gone above the bar in the Heli-Club but went missing."
Kev cannot remember the names but no doubt someone will. Is Kev a PPruner?? If not I'll send him an e-mail. I have another 60 odd pics of his on a disc so will drip feed them in as I get time.
This brings back memories of putting together the original "skyweaver" website, struggling with "old" modern technology. All done without broadband!! Some of those 50k images used to take me 30 minutes to upload on a 56k modem and a noisy BT internet connection.
Just spent two the last evenings getting my PPrune and Picture Bucket accounts up and running, not to mention trying to get my head around the complicated procedure for posting the pics
So, let's see if I have got the hang of this....
Swamp Rats
A short story by Kev Pickering ...
"Wessex ended up in a swamp after T/Rotor servo failure. Myself (KP) and three others were dispatched from Redhill to retrieve spares as Wessex spares were rare. We were given the name "Swamp Rats" and were presented with a wooden plaque carved by a BHL fixed wing pilot. This was to have gone above the bar in the Heli-Club but went missing."
Kev cannot remember the names but no doubt someone will. Is Kev a PPruner?? If not I'll send him an e-mail. I have another 60 odd pics of his on a disc so will drip feed them in as I get time.
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you are right...there is only one Yves LE ROY....It is ME ...stillalive with FRANCOISE;Who are you...My mail is [email protected]
I never work in canada,Iam the other Y leroy from bristow
you are right, Iam the bristow's one to contact at [email protected] if you don't like it,I put it back in my trousers....
I never work in canada,Iam the other Y leroy from bristow
you are right, Iam the bristow's one to contact at [email protected] if you don't like it,I put it back in my trousers....
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That accent.
Yves,
It's 33 years since we last met (Dubai) but I am so pleased to hear that you haven't lost your accent. It even comes out in your post!
It's 33 years since we last met (Dubai) but I am so pleased to hear that you haven't lost your accent. It even comes out in your post!
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Swamp rats
Looking at the pictures I believe apart from Kev Pickering, there was Steve Wright(Clive Wright's son) in the light blue overalls, hard to tell who else was there but it will come to me.
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I see Steve Higgins, Alistair Hutcheon, Andrew Hall and possibly John Baker in the cockpit. But I stand to be corrected.
I see Steve Higgins, Alistair Hutcheon, Andrew Hall and possibly John Baker in the cockpit. But I stand to be corrected.
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