What an impressive reply Rebound,
Ah the dignity, the wounded pride, the air of resigned patience, the despair at having your collective integrity impugned while at the same time the haughty disparagement of this site and those who ask questions. There must be an SA award you can be nominated for after such a performance.
Many people read the the post in question before I binned it so lets review it for those who missed the imor(t)al prose.
In the light of the contents of this thread the words it contained can only be construed as a complete semantic null. It contained no information other than justifying and defending the general interests and operations of a company in Florida.
It refused to discuss, detail or elaborate now or at any time in the future the history or status of the aircraft in question. It's accident history, the dataplate or the engine fit are studiously ignored. (To those supping a tassie at the moment it was simply a cover yer ass exercise completely ignoring what folks are actually interested in.)
Rebound, in the post above you make it abundantly clear that you are not SWFA at helibase. The are no apparent company registrations in SA indicating such a branch, partnership or agency as yet recognised in law yet you direct readers to helibase in SA for correspondence rather than America.
Therefore the post was removed as it went over the line in British law of 'passing off.' It's the era of the internet if you hadn't noticed and can check the statutes and case law yourself.
The registration was from South Africa, helibase to be precise. The post itself was from helibase and not Florida. No mention in the post was made that it was made from SA - no indication given that it was anything other than a post made directly by SWFA in the States. This was not the case.
With no record in SA of you having any connection with the company other than as a customer and no public announcements in Florida to the contrary the only logical conclusion was to remove the post.
As before the principals in the States are more than welcome to register but they must now be fully aware that any repetition of the original post will be greeted with derision as a simple exercise in both self justification and avoiding answers to basic historical, airworthiness, and certification questions. I'm sure there are those here who can collate the salient points as a short series of very well informed but basic questions as to what the airframe was certifcated to be able to carry out in the States and so on.
Finally our motivation here at the Towers? Quite frankly you reap what you sow in South Africa. Having the main, ill disguised protagonists chose to carry on in this way on a website read worldwide insults South African aviation professionals wherever they live and work. The entire huey saga compresses into Readers Digest format every ill aflicting your country as a whole - a land of gargantuan, self publicising, lawless egos haplessly countered by, what many of you claim to be, ineffectual authority.
This thread turned away from being a entertaining slapdown bitchfest between Waterfront operators a long time ago. Many have seen the light and read the saga as we see it. A wake up call reflecting an apparent demise in many aspects of aeronautical standards and operational integrity.
Rob Lloyd
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