My My My but some people can not just but out of something they know nothing about???
A certain member of the said SACAA was working for the then warbirds international who brought all the 39 aircraft out of ET.
How would you go about B@#$%#$tting him.
The said airframes were in fact standing at Solitude in my care and were in the process of being rebuilt for sale to Cape Town.
Parts may have been stripped from some but they were in fact all completely stripped down and rebuilt from scratch with new parts bought from a local Bell dealer. Check if you dare.
I also recall having posted previously the entire history of all the machine right here on pprune and invited anyone at the time I was at Helibase to come and inspect the papers!!
Incidentally ET tail 774 only had 384 hours total time since new (a 74 dash us serial number) and was repaired in ET after a hard landing by a subcontractor to Agusta Bell before being sold to Warbirds. Fact : all the new parts were supplied through Agusta in Italy through a sub contractor.
I left the company to pursue further interests in the same Ethiopian collection for anyone assuming I left for other reasons.
I visited Helibase the other day to help them with specialist tools and was amazed how much better things are going there.
So for all those negative gits BUT OUT or come along for the ride.
Heres hoping the YPT show will maybe see the Huey (771 ET) flying with its old friend from ET tail no ??? (Dean knows)>