SASless
"At least one Bristow pilot remains who was in Iran at the end"
Not quite part of the thread, but intriqued by the above. You certainly don't mean THE END, is it the end of the beginning that you mean. I was an unfortunate pilot who landed in Gach Saran the morning after the midnight flit and was promptly taken to the dungeons for interrogation, well the staff house then. The fact that many of the people new me and the helicopter had a big HAS and a red arrow painted all over it did not seem to matter, I was an escaping Bristow pilot until proved otherwise. All's well that ends well and after lunch was released to continue on my way to Bushehr.
The point I'm making, was the end 1979 for Bristow because our end was Sept 1980. My last flight was a crew change to Bahrain then a flight to Tehran follow by London. That weekend Irak bombed Tehran and war followed. Now that was the end!!