Bristow Photos

[Dave Ed]

Odd Jobs

Taking a break from bases..........................an interlude....

Odd Jobs

Over the years Bristow Helicopters have been tasked with a wide ranging variety of missions. Here are just a few of the more unusual.


A Yarmouth based Wessex under-slinging the one millionth Ford Cortina across to Belgium.






This Hiller 12 is carrying a guy in a Superman outfit hence the slogan on the float. It is circa 1960, possibly in Trinidad, the pilot being B.B. and the aircraft operated by British United Airways.




Parking on the apron was not treated lightly in the old days as can be seen in this early picture of the Stuffins van being "towed" away as the owner looks on horrified.
Circa 1965 Bristow Wessex 60 about to lift a 17 cwt van at Redhill.




Wessex G-ASWI carrying Dinosaurs - no, not the crew but real dinosaurs on their way to the "Black Gang Chine" theme park on the Isle of Wight.





Oil company Conoco paid for a nurses van to be underslung to the island of Foula, West of Shetland, Capt Bob Innes, Cop Terry Wolfe- Milner and crew Gerald Flaws and Alan Taylor with Vince Cain on the ground. Dated 27th May 1976.





18th February, 1980. Crewed by Capts Russ Smith, Peter Cole and crewman Gerald Flaws, S61 G-BDIJ rescues a Loganair Islander which had ended up in a stream on the island of Rousay when touching down in a gale.




Duncan Leech writes (wrote!): This postcard turned up at Aberdeen University shop. The Bell 206 was at Inverness in the early 70s.
The pilot is believed to be Paul Gliddon (2nd from the right).




No details on this one.
It is a picture of Wessex G-AVNE underslinging a minivan whilst winching.
Trials for the first R.A.C. get you home service!?