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Old 23rd Feb 2009, 02:39
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Miri, Sarawak, E.Malaysia, 1981-2 - Aircraft & Places


The Miri hangar with 2 Pumas & the Pocket Rocket under maintenance.

9M-SSB, a BAe 125, A.K.A. the Pocket Rocket.

9M-SSI was sold and exported to Australia. This required all equipment, including the winch & ferry tanks, to be fitted for the ferry flight. One of our finest Training Captains who liked to exercise his fingers on that round shaped spring loaded control under the collective head, had to do a quick dash downtown to buy the engineers a few crates of beer, after the above control operated the winch cable cut with the distinctive clunk of the hook hitting the ramp on his ground run.

9M-SSD being refuelled at Labuan. The MAF DHC5 Buffalos were always a great sight to watch with all that oil they burnt in great clouds of blue smoke.

9M-SSH, one of the 2 Twin Otters at Miri, being refuelled at Bintulu.

Shutdowns offshore were usually a daily occurrence, and here is 9M-SSF basking in the sunshine.

Terminal building at Lutong, the Sarawak Shell airfield. Bootneck will remember that we always arranged to arrive on right base so that the Controller would get to roll his 'R's the most - RRRoger, RRReport RRRight Base for RRRunway XXX - he always saw the humorous side of our last minute change of runaway requests!

The office - cockpit of the SA330J.

As Thridle Op Des has already posted, not getting at least one tyre on those wooden slots was a rare event. Here is one of about only 10 landings where I achieved all 6 tyres on the deck - normally it was at least one tyre on a slat.

The rear view mirror. Always thought it was wrong not to have these fitted to the Tigers originally, and was proven right after one lost a doghouse cowling, and at least one other landed at Aberdeen being advised by ATC 'Do you know that one of your engine cowlings is fully open'!

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