Yet another Sunday morning photoshoot with Bristow-Masayu's finest...
PK-HCH on arrival at Duri from Badak. We painted it green and sold it to some mob in PNG whose name escapes me. It was the only dual hydraulics 205 we had. The others were all single system, complete with all the cyclic feedback problems and 'jo-seal' changes.
PK-HBI on a compass swing at the Duri airstrip that never was.
And the other 206, PK-HCC departing Duri.
Mrs B and Nick Nothnagel about to go on a 'test flight'. Mrs B looking rather dubiously at the collective going up and down.
Dave Thomas.
The first of the Bell 212 Check 2's at Duri. When Badak folded (84-ish?), BMH convinced Caltex that they really needed the 212 so the 205's were phased out and sold off.
Dave Thomas, George Cunningham and Chris Tait, relax after a gruelling day in the tropics.
Crew change day. L-R Chris Tait, Me, Jess Bermudez, Geoff Steward and 'Pops' Elopre.
And having survived the two and a half hour bus ride to Rumbai and Pekanbaru, we then diced with death while the teenagers in the cockpit of the Garuda F28 joined up the red dots on the weather radar to take us back to Singapore.
