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Savoia wrote: Now let's see if we can't track-down TRC!
Then I remembered ...
TRC wrote: I've just looked back at the photos of TALY, and I am ashamed to admit that it's me doing the unmentionable thing with the hose (no idea what though). I'm also looking in the P2 door a couple of pictures later. I look like something out of Fleetwood Mac.
TRC avin' a larf!
TRC studiously preparing TALY for the Duke
Savoia wrote: It seems as though there may be need to compile an Alan Mann filmography!
This is a start, quite a few blanks to be filled-in and doubtless more films and series to be added - any contributions (large or small) welcomed.
Not entirely sure whether 'The Run of the Country' belongs in the list. JCB wasn't registered to Mann's at the time of filming and I don't know whether TRC was still with them in the 90's but I'm sure we'll find out.
Of the film (Run of the Country) TRC wrote:
I remember it well. We had to fly up and down just inside the Irish border painted to look like a British Army helicopter. Not ideal really.....
We were delayed leaving Ireland by a day, so to get the machine back in time for its next job we went direct Dundalk Bay to Wallasey - 120 nm. At 61 miles to run, the ENG CHIP light came on. Floats fitted but no bottles installed. Me and him in immersion suits, five-man dinghy, flares, etc.. Conversation was a little stilted.
We turned towards Valley where the Sea King lives. When asked to continue not above something uncomfortably low for the last few miles, they kindly raised the circuit height of the swarm of Hawks and we landed to the massed blue lights of the airfield fire service.
The chip was, of course, a whisker - but as far as we were concerned it might have had a full part number on it. The last Eng Chip that he had resulted in he engine stopping 15 seconds later.
We had to night stop at Valley because they couldn't raise even a RAF plod to do the necessary Special Branch stuff.
ExDesigner: Welcome to the thread. There are a number of readers of this and the Nostalgia Thread who possess images (both physical and mental) of the subjects we are prattling on about and I would encourage you to contribute whatever you can. For me personally any contribution of information or material is profoundly welcome and extremely useful in assisting to compile the narrative which will be posted onto the tribute site we are building which will cover both Ferranti and Alan Mann helicopters.
HeliHub: Well done. You are quite right it could only have been BAUM or BBEU at that time and one knows for a fact that BBEU wore the Mann motif so I'm going with that as the entrant for 'The Boys from Brazil'!