Airfast Helicopter Photos & Articles
Reallyoldfart, your post seeking a thread with photos of Airfast / HUPL helicopters has pricked my interest. I am not a pilot, only a helicopter enthusiast. Like you, I would be keen to see more photos posted of the early days of commercial helicopter ops in Australia (before my time).
For those interested, the November 1971 issue of the Australian "Aircraft" magazine had a fairly extensive coverage of Airfast / HUPL with numerous photos of helicopters that made up their fleet. Airfast advertisement in that issue indicates at the time they has 104 aircraft in Australia, PNG, Fiji, Indonesia, Korea and Singapore.
Front and back cover of DCA's Aviation Safety Digest No.86 of September 1973 also showed Airfast rig support Bell 205's.
Pictures of Airfast helos also sometimes appeared in general books about Australia.