Helios in Borneo
There aren't too many accounts of Borneo and still fewer about the helio part of it - but that's about to change, however, not just yet!!
At that stage all helios were under powered and had limited range/payload. Comms were primitive, weather was a major problem, navigation done on the back of a fag packet - mostly time & distance stuff, poor maps, flying suits made in Australia - unless you wanted to wear the 'UK strength' blue stuff!!
For a young'un it was an experience of a lifetime.
Spares - particularly blades - were frequently in short supply and one was at the end of an 8000 miles pipeline being primed by people with no idea what was going on at t'other end!
Go to the 'history & nostalgia' threads on this site and look for 'Belvedere' and the posts about 225 sqn, confrontation and Indonesia etc - loads of background stuff there.
I had such a great time, I sometimes give talks about it!!
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