PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Alan Mann Helicopters (Nostalgia thread)
View Single Post
Old 22nd Jun 2011, 08:59
  #120 (permalink)  
Fareastdriver
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: UK
Posts: 5,222
Likes: 0
Received 4 Likes on 3 Posts
Re post #106 - Brian Danger. Wasn't he the guy who had an engine failure in a RAF Whirlwind out in the Far East, was picked out of a jungle clearing by another Whirlwind which then crashed as well, caught fire, and Brian was badly burned? Or have I totally lost the plot and that was someone else.....?
Brian had left the RAF a and was flying an piston engined S55 for Worldwide Helicopters in Brunei when he had his accident. He was rescued by another S55 which only just missed the wreckage of his helicopter when it crashed trying to take off. Both were, of course, loaded with Avgas so the fire was quite intense. I last saw him at Labuan when he was being casevaced in the back of an S62.
Fareastdriver is offline