Savoia....What was the query on the Burma rescue? It's quite well documented and I recall meeting Carter and discussing it with him too before adding his signed statement on the mission to the Wall of Fame at the Helicopter Museum.......much much much later in his life he married Jean Ross Howard who founded the Whirly Girls .
Incidentally have just heard from the son of another early R4 pilot,Jeep Cable,who died in the Airhorse crash with fellow test pilot Alan Marsh. He sent me a picture taken at AFEE Beaulieu of a dog sat in an early rescue basket,apparently knocked up to try and rescue someone from the English Channel,probably circa 1945. The effort failed apparently because the victim was too weak to clamber into the basket but must have been a very early British helicopter rescue attempt.
Finally FH Dixon was killed flying the Fairey Gyrodyne......brave people those early test pilots.