This picture from Speacless two via North Sea Photos got me thinking why not include the companies aquired by BHL? They are certainly a large part of what made Bristows what it is. So any Fison's Airwork, BEAS, B.Cal. etc photos & anecdotes pleas add them here too!
There have indeed been many variations on the good old yard of ale. I well remember a course of pilots from a Middle Eastern country doing their command training on the 212 who tried a yard of Guinness - very messy Pastis and tonic was my preference. It's a shame the Training School was closed down as so many good young men and women who passed through it have since done very well both in Bristow and other companies.
Taking up Tail-take-off's suggestion of photos from companies which ended up being bought out by Bristow, here's another one from the BEAS brochure c.1973. I have a very few slides in the depths of the loft somewhere of BEAS/Irish 212's and also Irish Bo105's on the Irish Lights contract.
Fred Barker (Chairman) - John Hedges (MD)
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Mike Ginn (ran the offshore side) - Peter Allwork RIP (famed helicopter cameraman of many feature films - a delight to fly with)
Edit: Anyone remember Pete Peckowski of BEAS? He did my Bo105 conversion at Shannon in 73 and my abiding memory of that is of Pete continuing to calmly smoke his cigarette whilst we did practice single engine landings. Great guy, sadly long gone. Also that other Pole, the excitable Ted Nowak? Last saw him passing through ABZ many years ago after he lost his licence on medical grounds and he was doing a stats job in the ESB. Didn't he fly one of the Lancasters in the Dambuster's film?
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Hi moderator - I think I may have got it that time. Thanks if I did! I did read the instructions a million times but don't always understand the jargon ... sorry!
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...............as one, a zillion Rotorheads sighed in relief. p.hive has cracked posting photographs. Now where's the rest? Jock Swainson. Over twice my age at the time; loved the guy.
Prakla Seismos, Soltaniyeh, Iran 1978. The aircraft were fitted with groundwave and skywave detectors and the long boom extending forward of the nose was the MAD detector.
Jim Jacobs, Steve Wright, Bob Evans, Trevor Judd, Soltaniyeh Iran, 1978
Hiya, i live just outside norwich airport and work on the airport at a flying club, and i see bristows all the time, and it is very interesting to see the picture of that bell 206 jetranger, the oldest jetranger in the uk is owned by bristow helicopters and is based at Norwich, and do you know a pilot called Dave higgins?
Pastis and tonic was my preference. It's a shame the Training School was closed down as so many good young men and women who passed through it have since done very well both in Bristow and other companies.
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