Bristow Photos

[soggyboxers]

John,
I remember that DANAC maps were a bit hard to read if a number of people had inadvertently left that 'write' feature on so they had ink lines all over them. Do you remember the other joy of Decca on the North Sea - that it invariably lost lock just when you needed it, making an approach in a snowstorm :}. Ah, happy days - thank heavens for GPS (but it's still nice to be able to revert to old-fashioned navigation when the GPS fails - as it has numerous times for me in the last few years).

SAS,
Surely you remember that one of the physical checks made in determining a pilot's suitability for the S58T was his ability to use all 8 arms in a synchronised fashion ;) - that and being able to fly in an old tweed jacket and be able to substitute bailer twine for shoelaces :}.

[SASless]

Yes....Yes....the Bristow S-58T Pilot uniform....blue jeans, wooly pully, and rig boots whilst wearing that wonderful rubberized canvas bag.

What was that Ground Hosty's name that was frequently dropping her top whenever she played Squash and got behind on points?

[Pofman]

Bondu
Gerry retired as CGI, HAI at the end of last year supposedly to go caravaning.
Obviously Val has too long a list of jobs for him and I last heard that he is on the CAPT website for their modular programme.

[Tail-take-off]

Gerry retired as CGI, HAI at the end of last year supposedly to go caravaning


Sounds about right. His retirement present from BHL when he left Unst was a garden shed.

Life in the fast lane!

I have no experience of his Ab initio instruction but he was one of the best operators I ever flew with on the North Sea.

[rotorgoat]

Gerry Taught me Air law and HP & L at HAI in 2004/5. He was a very nice chap and I remember taking him for his first heli ride for 6 years in the s300. He took the controls like he had only been flying yesterday...legend. Hope he is enjoying retirement. T

[HOGE]

A couple from the frozen North.
Eric Pashley
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl001.jpg
Refuelling the slow way somewhere above 78 deg. N
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl003.jpg

[Brilliant Stuff]

Are these recent HOGE?

[HOGE]

No, 1996 if I recall correctly.

[Tail-take-off]

HOGE

Looks like the Spitzbergergen contract spring of 96. See also my pictures on page 1 of this thread.:ok:

[HOGE]

Tail-Take-Off, you are correct, seems you have already posted photos of the places I've been! Here's a few more.
Yemen, on the deck of the Interocean III in the Red Sea.
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl007.jpg
Yemen again, Mrs Cunningham, George Cunningham, Chippy Stokes, Ken Humphries.
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl005.jpg
Silverstone one year B214 and S61
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl012.jpg
Any of the S61 drivers remember the approach into St Kilda?
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl009.jpg
More Falklands
Simon Wilton
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl010.jpg
Ian Bell
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl011.jpg
The base at MPA
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl013.jpg

[TiPwEiGhT]

What was St. Kilda used for? Am I right in thinking its a million miles off the west coast?

[HOGE]

Thanks for pointing out my mistake there. Must stop drinking and posting at the same time!

Apologies to both Ian , and John Bell!

[Tail-take-off]

Great pictures though HOGE (all the more interesting having recognised some of the places & some of the people). Do you have any more?

[HOGE]

Here's an assortment.

Somewhere in the East Shetland Basin.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl014.jpg

Somewhere in the Falklands.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl015.jpg

WK at Biggin Hill

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl016.jpg

Mike Crabb taxying EJ at North Denes

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl017.jpg

Mike Langford somewhere in Spitzbergen

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl018.jpg

Think we are picking up ice..:eek:

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl019.jpg

About to undersling a Squirrel that had hit the wires.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl020.jpg

MY in the Falklands

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl021.jpg

[phive]

Good memories of that Gnome 204 really, and good to see the photo of her on floats! That aircraft was also based at Zagross ('70/'71) but of course floatless. Most memorable flight was from T1 (7000') and very cold wearing a thick jacket, to go down to Ahwaz were it was +40C and trying to get the jacket off whilst strapped in and before I melted!

[forget]

phive, A little treat for you. An actual T/R Blade Cuff from EP-HAM. No joke and Really. :) Beat that for triv!

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/204.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

G-BFRI in BIH colours:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1086102M.jpg

[Biggles1049]

Some blasts from the past !!! - taken at North Denes

Wessex G-AZBY http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1021562/

Wessex G-ATBZ http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1043067/

Bell 212 G-BJJO http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1080932/

Operating with Bristows fleet as well at various stages were
Management Avn

G-BFAG S58ET http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1036502/

G-BAMF Bo105 http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1036503/

Enjoy

P.s. Can some one send me a link to explain how I can load photo's direct onto a reply ?

Ta:rolleyes:

[Senior Pilot]

Biggles1049,

There is a very good thread, How to post Photographs (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=145070) which I have made a sticky at the top of this forum for a week or two :ok:

[Biggles1049]

Senior pilot

Many thanks for the info - here are the three photo's - all taken at North Denes in the mid 1970's

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1080932M.jpg


http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1043067M.jpg


http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1021562M.jpg


http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1036502M.jpg

[Hippolite]

Biggles

Not taken in the mid 70s, well, not all of them anyway. The picture of Bell 212 BJJO shows it parked on the "new" North Denes ramp area which was not constructed until 1989. G-BJJO (along with G-BJJP and G-BJJR) was purchased new in late 1981 to replace the Wessex aircraft contracted to Amoco after they were grounded due to the fatal accident which befell G-ASWI in 1981 off Bacton.

Thanks for the pix though.

[SFHawk]

Caught my artistic side today...(shame the fuel truck pulled up just as I took it!)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/duncanmcwhannell/23jan08.jpg

[Oldlae]

The fatal accident was Ben Breach I believe, if so, Westland attributed the accident to Ben flying into the sea which BHL didn't accept, any thoughts now?

[Hippolite]

Oldlae

I would absolutely refute that Ben Breach just "flew it in" since he made a "mayday" call and said "ASWI - Engine Failure - ditching". Ben then held the PTT button open until the end to give as many clues as possible.

The Bristow version was that the centre shaft running up to the MGB probably failed causing an overspeed shutdown (double engine shutdown) and that for some reason the auto went wrong at the bottom. Could it have been damaged hydraulics leading to a loss of control at the bottom?

I will never forget that terrible day in 1981. I don't think they ever recovered the wreckage from the shifting sands in that area.

As good as the old Wessex could be at times, it was a good decision to ground the fleet and replace them all for commercial operations.

[Rosh]

Some pics (slideshow) taken while ferrying G-BJFL from Istanbul to Redhill, in August 2007. The aircraft had already been ferried from Kazakhstan to Istanbul (which is where I joined in).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7vH92lE8hY


En-Route. Parked at Bastia, Corsica.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01066.jpg

[Impress to inflate]

Good to see you are enjoying life outside the North Sea. When are you heading to the Southern Hemisphere ?

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3934-2/G-BALZ+1_001.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3935-2/G-BALZ+2+Mauritania_008_001.jpg

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3936-2/G-BALZ+3_001.jpg

[Rosh]

G-CEOR S76C++ October 2007

Having been shipped from the U.S.A. and modified at Alan Mann, Surrey, G-CEOR required some airtesting and ferrying to Aberdeen for a coat of paint, before finally being shipped to Malaysia.

Surprised to be welcomed by some familiar faces at Alan Mann (ex-Bristow Redhill Main Hangar engineers)


Geoff Steward and Steve Higgins balancing the TR

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01639.jpg


Lee Scott Jones elbow deep.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01644.jpg


Left to Right: Steve Moakes, Steve Menham, Geoff Steward and Andy Hall.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01645.jpg


Ready to fly.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01648.jpg


En route to Aberdeen

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01652.jpg


Pulled over at Teeside.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01654.jpg


Warmer Climate. Reunited with the machine in Malaysia. Now 9M-SPV and looking all shiny!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02230.jpg

[206Fan]

Nice pics rosh, she looks sooo dam clean in her new paint, very nice:ok:

[Phil Kemp]

Steve Moakes, Steve Higgins, Andy Hall, Leigh Scott-Jones!:)

Might be time to stop for a beer around Fairoaks..:rolleyes:

[Hippolite]

PK

A beer with Moakes and Higgins......you had better take some aspirin with you for the next morning!

[demon_duck]

I can remember when they weren't allowed to work in the same hangar together, then it was the same operation, and I think eventually the same country!

Eeeeeeeee, those were the days! :ok:

[Oldlae]

Steve Higgins.
Have you heard the story when Steve was in the Falklands, he took a newcomer into Stanley and they had a drink in the hotel with two bars I forget the name. Steve then said we'll go to another bar so he took the Land Rover and drove all over Stanley and went in the other bar of the same hotel. The newcomer being completely lost couldn't work out why the same barman served them.

[3D CAM]

Just one beer with the two Steves??? You must be joking!!!:D
But isn't it sad that the once great Bristow Helicopters are reduced to sending their aircraft to another company??:confused: At least there are bloody good engineers working on them there! Even the 61's have been to British International.

[Bootneck]

I only got to page 5 and had to post a few. Somebody asked for images of G-TIGN in china.

Here she is just about to start for Kai Tak after being lifted from the freighter. (Kwai Chung container port)
Graham Lee and Rob Parry.:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM4/SPuma1.jpg

Same crew taking RH to Kai Tak, this one arrived on a Ro-Ro ferry, I had to pump the hydraulics to keep brake pressure as she was pushed out of the ferry down the ramp. Hilarious few days.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM4/Puma1.jpg

Winch training with our greenie ? Robinson on the left and Butch ? on the right, they thought sitting in the doorway would save their knees. Later during a particularly tight turn they were heard screaming over the intercom. :):)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM4/winch1.jpg

GN in Kai Tak on diversion following a casevac from a drilling rig amongst the islands south of HK. The interpreter is Jenny (Shi Jing) the co-pilot is I think Huang (guy in flying ovies was HKAF). He was really pissed off at going to HK and switched off the AP as I reached hover height over the deck. I landed back on and he demanded we go immediately to China and then possibly HK. I explained that if he didn't sit on his hands for the remainder of the trip I would hurl him over the side. The ex-pat oily had already lost an eye due to a gauge exploding in his face, when we got to Kai Tak there was an ambulance and a surgeon waiting, the guys second eye was saved. On return to Shen Zhen I was advised by throbbing Robin I would be removed by the Immigration police for interview. So off we trotted and I was deemed a nasty person, but if I didn't do it again I could stay. Yeah......whatever. :D:D


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM5/China1-8001.jpg

GN at Guangzhou. 13.09.1984. L-R Rob Parry, Graham Lee, Ian Stewart Chief Engineer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM5/China1001.jpg

GN at the dockside on arrival

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM5/China1-2001.jpg

RH on the dockside at Whampoa looking towards Kowloon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM5/China1-3001.jpg

During a typhoon evac I had to go under one of these, kicked us all over the sky.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OaM5/China1-5001.jpg

[Bootneck]

End of another fitful day in paradise. Not. Miri :ugh: some time in 1982.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Nightshift001.jpg


Can't remember the poor unfortunate who had this disaster. There was an almighty witch hunt, but nowhere did it say 'thou shalt strap thy puma down during a flat calm.' You can see the storm about 10-15 miles away, as per norm it came in rather quickly. Photos by a Shell employee, time period about 20 minutes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OAM3/Puma1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OAM3/Puma2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OAM3/Puma3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OAM3/Puma4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/OAM3/Puma5.jpg

[Droopy]

Bootneck, I believe it was PG on the F23? No-one laughed of course....

[carholme]

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p95/carholme/LastScan.jpg

[quichemech]

Carholme,

Nice photo, thanks.:ok:

[Bootneck]

Dec 1981, about to do the night shuttle from the 347 barge to TRD. About 0200, very limited lights on the new platform, virtually nothing on the new deck I did the first couple of rotations to get my eye in, then handed over to the left seat pilot who may be called Tiger to protect the guilty. He flew half the first approach then refused to fly any more. Said it was too dangerous :eek:. Well agreed it was, but there's a job to be done. I'm sure the pax could hear me roaring with laughter when he handed control over and said enough is enough. He was quite happy working the radios. :):)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Nightshift005.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Nightshift003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Nightshift006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Nightshift004.jpg

Lutong and fill it up. Mr Tang (?)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Nightshift002.jpg


Labuan from the South.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Miri/Labuan1.jpg

[Schinthe]

This old lady ferried through Galeh Morghi in 1973.I don't know where she was going to.Maybe someone remembers?


http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc229/Schinthe/DadsPhotos66.jpg

[Rosh]

Great to see the pics from Malaysia in the 70's/80's. Looks like a great time to have been out here.

Here's a few more recent Pics while operating on contract with MHS, from their Miri and Kerteh Bases.


Miri Sunrise. Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02692.jpg


Picking-up and Refuelling at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02656.jpg


Island off Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02696.jpg


Air Asia at Kota Kinabalu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02654.jpg


Refuelling in Bintulu, Sarawak.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02628.jpg


Kota Kinabalu...again!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02702.jpg


Refuelling on Labuan island. Just off the Northwest coast of Malaysian Borneo, North of Brunei Bay.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02362.jpg


Island off Labuan.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02364.jpg


Flight line at Kerteh, Terrengganu. One Bristow machine (S76C++) and 3 of MHS's new S76C++.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC03464.jpg


Flying an MHS machine. Refuelling on the Tapis D.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC03460.jpg


Bristow occupied hangar at Kerteh.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC03403.jpg


Hangar at Kereteh, just before the sun came up...(far too early!)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC03422.jpg


Air Asia Rep, looking far better than me in the seat, Kota Kinabalu!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC02657.jpg

[Hedski]

Was she smiling because you told her you would show her your choppa....:eek::eek::eek:

[206Fan]

Was she smiling because you told her you would show her your choppa...

LOL...

Very nice pics rosh, cheers for sharing:ok:

[Tail-take-off]

Click here:

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/

& type Bristow into the search box for interesting stuff from the Flight International archive.

[Impress to inflate]

Rosh old boy, Allow me to send you a private message. ITI

[Rosh]

Impress To Inflate, less of the OLD boy (look who's talking!) and allow me to PM you back sir!

Hedski, I'd just shown her my choppa, and she's not smiling.....she's laughing out loud. :bored:

[Bootneck]

A few more from the first days of Bristow's setup in Shekou, or Shenzhen as it's now all called.

G-TIGN (Buckie) having her blades fitted after being craned onto the dockside. she had literally been covered in bubble wrap, slung on top of the containers and strapped down. Ian Stewart on top, John Cureton from Oz with hands on hips, Chief Eng from Oz with arms in air as Ian Robinson looks on in bewilderment, he was the greenie. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img013-1.jpg

L-R Ian Stewart, John Murray behind the blade, John Cureton and Ian Robinson.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img016.jpg

A few hours later she was flown into Kai Tak, handed over to HAECO for cleaning and access to servicing platforms. 12th Sept 1984.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img014.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img015.jpg


The next day, 13th Sept '84 we flew from Kai Tak to Guangzhou (Canton) then returned to Shenzhen. At Guangzhou we were given a Navigator who would 'help' us return to Shenzhen, which we had flown past on the way up the Pearl River. This poor lad was totally bemused by our RNAV and HSIs, he couldn't or wouldn't use the VHF so he had problems as the HF didn't work properly. En-route to Guangzhou I called them at about 30 miles on their VHF frequency. You could hear a button keyed, then silence. Eventually they managed to find the air traffic controller that spoke English. He came on out of breath and obviously slightly nervous.

Finals to Guangzhou, a poor image, but believe me they kept slotting fixed wings in front of us all the way down the ILS. :eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img017.jpg

Guangzhou Terminal.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img019.jpg

The huge apron area at Guangzhou, they made us park miles well away from the terminal.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img024.jpg


Finally we got to Shenzhen, to be met by Admiral Zhou the Airport Manager and Robin Hunt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img020.jpg


Once we had disappeared Admiral Zhou led out an entourage of the good and great to have a look at the new machines.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img018.jpg


Just to show how things were all those years ago. This was built with bamboo scaffolding, 50 storeys plus a revolving restaurant up top.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img023.jpg

Shekou, the Bank Of China building, and the town just about to be built.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img021.jpg


G-Berh having her blades fitted at Whampoa dock before her trip of 5 minutes to Kai Tak.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img022.jpg

[Bootneck]

VH-WOA on the Rankin, NW ustralia. One of th estarter motors wouldn't, so we pushed her over to the side of the deck, had some caffeine while marek and Alan Rose brought a greeny and the bit to us. What a nice man.

L-R Alan Rose, Mick Omedei, John Ward, Marek Glinski in the cockpit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img025.jpg


WOA again this time on an island called Legendre, as we carried out a heli pad recce for emergency use.
John Ward in cockpit, Marek as passenger.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img026.jpg


I was tasked to fly to the Rankin one fine Saturday. Marek briefed me that he would be out in his boat with a two way VHF radio which would be handy for coordinating rescues. He told me he would call when we were due out of Karratha.

So off we went, and shortly heard our callsign, to which Alan Rose responded.
Marek then asked, "Where are you?"
I grabbed Alan's hand away from the PTT and pressed my own, "I'm in the front!" :):):):):)

Marek took a few minutes to get any sense out of us, I was convulsed, how long do you wait for ATC to ask that? :D:D:D

[Bootneck]

China, early days in Shenzhen. Two of the Tiger pilots. Huang and Wang? Certainly their oriental style of intimacy fell flat on Ian Robinson the greeny. :):)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img029.jpg


Ma in one of the two pumas. (G-BERH or G-BFKZ)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img028.jpg


His best friend :ok:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img027.jpg

[zilk235]

I flew that gracefull old thing in 1974. Ron Cann was the station boss. I flew it out to the GANAVAE one night in a shamal ... (medical emergency) ran out of fuel just after landing on the pad back in Bushehr. The damn wind shifted ... scary!

[Bootneck]

More from Shenzhen.

The flight line, two Pumas and a Tiger. The runway consisted of 200m of concrete, at either end was a rubbleway. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img044.jpg

The Chinese Greeny could really get in amongst it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img045.jpg

KZ receiving attention. Most of the time it was difficult to know who was an 'experienced' engineer and who was the water carrier. Everybody was determined to help in some small way. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img046.jpg


Mayne Bristow (Australia) Greeny and assistant.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img047.jpg


G - TIGN being prepared for a flight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img048.jpg


The control tower and office block, plus departure lounge. The radar sterilised all of us. One day ATC were adamant I could not depart as there were heavy thunderstorms around. He only relented when taken to the Tiger and shown our airborne radar. "Oooooooooh!" :ok:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img049.jpg

[Bootneck]

Any activity, no matter how mundane attracted a crowd of Goofers. G-TIGN about to go filming. (Robin Hunt in life jacket.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img050.jpg


Same trip

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img051.jpg

Wonderful pose from our interpreter. No matter how hard we tried, once we were out of the cockpit it was almost impossible to prevent the Chinese pilots from shouting at Guangzhou on the HF.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img052.jpg


Lovely bloke, but very keen on the camera. :)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img053.jpg


Three of the engineers. Really nice guys who tried their hardest despite the language barriers. The interpreters always wanted to work with the aircrew, so the engineers got by with hand signals. Most of them were sent to France and Aberdeen to do full courses.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img054.jpg

The other end of the flight line, PHI's 214s and two of the Navy Dauphins.
One morning a PHI pilot had rolled back the throttles and was completing his paperwork, imagine it's the nearest 214. The Chinese Co-pilot received an instruction to move the aircraft to another spot, to the right of the other 214 which was also turning and burning. The interpreter had gone with the passengers, so the co-pilot intimated by hand signals what was required. The American Capt said OK and went back to his paperwork for a second. Meanwhile the Co had wound up both throttles, anticipating a ground taxi manoeuvre the Capt looked up, just in time to see the other 214 slide beneath his aircraft. :eek: He managed to grab everything and prevent a disaster. During the debrief the Co was unable to understand how dangerous his actions had been.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img055.jpg


Shekou during the construction phase; looking towards the ferry terminal. One evening I was sitting having a beer when a carpenter rode past on his bike. A tea leaf grabbed the saw from the chippies bag and ran for it, onto the football pitch, right of photo. The carpenter called for help and eventually the thief was being chased by a dozen irate Chinese in a scene reminiscent of Peter Sellers best films. Eventually the thief was caught and beaten, the saw was retrieved. The carpenter returned triumphantly to his bike to discover the rest of his tools had disappeared. :{

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img056.jpg


British Airways were operating from Macao, across the other side of the Pearl River. They came under pressure to allow two Chinese pilots to fly their S61 to a rig, and allowed it to happen. Their crew returned to Shenzhen one day, the ex-pats got off and vowed never to fly with them again. Their views were unsurprising, the crew had taxied in with huge grins, heaved on the brakes and glibly pulled back both throttles simultaneously. Silly boy hadn't applied the tail wheel lock. The aircraft turned about 25-30*. They hadn't the sense to wind it up again and roll forward. When all was quiet they descended the stairs and gathered all the Chinese engineers, who were required to push the tail boom to get the tail wheel straight. :eek:
30 minutes later the saga continued. They managed to get the Chinese passengers to board, the ex-pats were refusing to, and I commiserated with them. The aircraft taxied out to the very short runway, our hero took off and in a show of bravado carried out a 360* turn, followed by a rapidly accelerating second and a third, which was even faster. By this time I was below the window ledge. He managed to stagger it into the air, slewed at a dreadful angle.

That was the nail in his coffin. A phone call to 'Nigel' in Macao was made immediately, detailing what had happened. The shaken ex-pats explained that numb nuts had commenced his rig approach at about 15 miles, by which point he was at 150'. Little yellow ears were reddened in Macao. :)

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.airpixbycaz.co.uk/mix23-vrbej.jpg

http://www.ragphoto.com/aviation/3.htm
http://www.ragphoto.com/aviation/1.htm
http://www.ragphoto.com/aviation/9.htm
http://www.ragphoto.com/aviation/7.htm

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-BKFN001.jpg

There have been a few BCAL & BEAS photos posted. Anyone got anymore?

What about the other companies that were swallowed up but are part of what makes BHL what it is today?

[Tail-take-off]

TTO,

The thread title says it all: Bristow Photos :rolleyes:

[Senior Pilot]

Moderator: BCal Helicopters was bought by Bristow (just like BEAS that appears earlier in the thread) & 412ST FN operated for many years before being exported to Bristow in the US last year

Thanks: a photo without a title/narrative doesn't make that point :ok: I'll reinstate it, maybe Tto can edit it for the world at large ;)

[Tail-take-off]

Senior pilot

Way back in post 105 I posted a BEAS picture & said:


This picture from Speacless got me thinking why not include the companies aquired by BHL? They are certainly a large part of what made Bristows what it is. So any Fison's Airwork, BEAS, B.Cal. etc photos & anecdotes pleas add them here too!


It was greeted with enthusiasm by a number of Bristow people who had joined via other companies who were absorbred by BHL & a number of further BEAS & BCAL pictures were subsequently included.

The thread title says it all: Bristow Photos

Yes I know. It is the title I gave it when I started the thread. Perhaps now it has developed it should be changed to Bristow (& associated companies) photos?

[SASless]

Perhaps it might actually be OLOG Photos as Bristow was purchased by OLOG and was itself a subsidiary company for quite a while before adopting the BHL tradename.









Just stirring the pot a bit!;)

[inmate]

Ok SASless,
As Olog is no longer in the picture we could call it the Bristow Group Photos. With all due respect to our Bristow peers of course.
By the way old Bristow boys anyone remember Jack Brannon??? Best Snake Oil salesman in the biz.
Now I really feel old :mad:

[TiPwEiGhT]

I can't get over how small and the lack of a rotor head for those massive blades on BKFN.

So what is it doing now since its retirement? Always loved hearing it pass at ABZ, gave you a little bit of a lift on a drerry morning.

TiP

[Bootneck]

How many of you remember Ozzie? Bill Hade's monkey in Miri; he would wait until visitors had gone inside then shred their windscreen wipers. As in this photo I'd put him on my shoulders, he'd grab some hair then off we'd go on my bike for a tour. A wonderful character, with some decidedly nasty habits, similar to the monkey. ;);)

Another trick was to fill a bucket with water then hook it up in his tree, he'd lie down in it and rest his head on the edge, quite the celebrity.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Robiz/Machines/img012.jpg

[SASless]

Old names...."Tommy Sword Stick, Jack Trigg, Jack Moss, Marcel Avon...characters all!"

[parabellum]

Jack Brannon - Yes Inmate I remember Jack, he came to Singapore/Indonesia when that op first started up in 1968, also Jack Trigg, fresh from the RAF, John Odlin, the late Barry Newman, I remember quite a long list of well known names from those days!

[js0987]

OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here - its been over 30 years - but wasn't Jack in charge of recruiting pilots in the 70's? Seems I remember a story that he was busted in Alabama or some place and was greeted upon his return to Redhill with his picture on an American style wanted poster.

[SASless]

George Puddy took over from Jack Brannon as I remember it....and George was certainly a gentleman in all regards. Ken Smith had pilot assignments, Puddy recruiting and Pilot Admin. Thas being '75 or so. Trigg filled as needed in the office.

[Bootneck]

George Puddy, thank you for the nudge, had pilot admin for many years until about the late 80's. He would send gentle reminders about the lack of a passport photo in my personal file for example. Hence the photo above with Ozzie, he then replied with a poem, asking if he might just possibly have a passport photo; his last line, and it didn't scan.....

"A photo, dammit, a photo"

As SASless says, a gentleman of the old school. ;)

[Tail-take-off]

Another 214ST this time after the Bristow take over:
http://www.aircraftworlddirectory.com/civil/b/bell­3.jpg

Another one of G-BCMC. It would seem that this one is not at all camera shy.

http://www.aircraftworlddirectory.com/civil/b/bell214.gif

I'm still waiting for a couple of contacts to let me have some 212 pictures from Nigeria & another some of the Falklands, North Sea, Redhill FTS & some late BEAS stuff as well. In the mean time there must be more out there.

[Tail-take-off]

Does anyone remember G-BBHM (re-registered 8Q-HUM) being leased to Hummingbird in the Maldives. Mike Clark & Griff Jones ferried it out there & because Hummingbird were short of crews they had to stay out there for a couple of weeks to help out. Tough job but somebody has to do it. As well as a couple of weeks in the sun Griff ended up with a wife & family out of the trip.

Griff went back a year later to do the return ferry flight with Graham Lee (he knew the way!)

http://217.195.161.158/pz/hp/hpi/0001-0500/0041.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Sumburgh early eighties.

http://217.195.161.158/pz/hp/hpi/1001-1500/1269.jpg

Some where near Inverness:
http://217.195.161.158/pz/hp/hpi/3501-4000/3525.jpg

[farsouth]

Does anyone know if the "RESCUE" marking on the JetRanger was genuine - if so, what sort of operation was that??
Or maybe it was just a comment on the reliability of the cars.........

[CGWRA]

Hi skid gear with fairings. You don't see that everyday in a jetranger.

[Oldlae]

G-BAUN was based at Inverness in those days doing ad-hoc, the rescue sign was probably added for the advert. Is that Paul Gliddon standing in the centre of the three guys on the right?

[SASless]

It does look like Paul....but then that begs the question...rotors turning and Paul outside for a photo shoot?????

[Oldlae]

I guess the blades were just not tied down, probably for artistic reasons. The a/c didn't have a rotor brake.

[nessboy]

TTO
I thing that picture was mid seventies,old hangar still there.

[Tail-take-off]

nessboy

you could be right!

[Phil Kemp]

The Sumburgh picture was probably taken in either 1976 or 1977 as the second hangar still hadn't been built, or started, yet. The second phase of the terminal is complete, so that might more accurately suggest 1977?

I am the guy unloading the bags in that picture.:)

How are things Nessboy? ;)

[hico-p]

Dear old Jack Brannon !! Every time I came home on leave, Jack was on the phone within a few days pleading for help with some pilot shortage! Met up with a few old Bristow faces at a BAH reunion at the Air Museum at Flixton, Suffolk in August 2006, including John Odlin, Marcel Avon, Bob Balls, Dave Winter, John Hall and John Waddington. All looked pretty fit.

[phive]

Thank you,'forget', for that little treat posted a while back, of HAM's blade cuff!! I thought I recognised it. Hoping to digitise some slides and post them one day!

[phive]

People have been asking after Gerry Sedgwick and I thought there might be interest in this pic of the BHL instructors at Middle Wallop in '67 where Gerry is back row second from left. The other 'steelies' you will have to work out but what a good looking bunch!!! :ok:


http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd136/pandjfrean/MiddleWallop002.jpg

[212man]

Mike Norris, 3rd from right Back row?

[Staticdroop]

A cheery bunch...

[k12479]

Interesting pics.

One question, does Tiger = Super Puma?

[Bootneck]

K12479, yes, Tiger = Super Puma. :ok:

There's a preponderance of suede shoes, chukka boots and fair-isle amongst that group of Wallop instructors. I know most of the faces, but names elude me. Nothing new there then.

Is that Arthur Sharples, front row third from left?

[Oldlae]

And Pete Frean front row second from the right.

[parabellum]

Unbelievable! I went through Wallop on course 173, Oct 1964 to 1965 and I don't recognise a single one of those instructors:sad:

[Tail-take-off]

I flew with Gerry many times from Unst the last being shortly before he retired at the beginning of 1995. Incredibly apart from the addition of a pair of glasses he looked exactly the same as in the picture above.

[tascats]

Some potatoes

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd288/crieffy/DSC_3905.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd288/crieffy/DSC_3907.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd288/crieffy/DSC_3914.jpg

Wish I'd known this was going to happen:ugh: Would have had some cracking shots from the end of 09 when they all lifted into the hover.

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1097593M.jpg

[simfly]

So the new hangar in Scatsta hasn't been built yet then??? Must be wasting a lot of fuel and pilot hours flying them up and down everyday, unless this was just a photo shoot....

[peeriebreeks]

The " official" photo shoot was at Scatsta, but they are all nicely lined up at Sumburgh most mornings.

its only ten minutes to Scatsta if you ignore the landing and taxi-ing bit

[Impress to inflate]

Those 92's will never work, hope they still have the odd Super Puma, sorry Tiger lurking in an out house somewhere to take up the strain.

Do look good in the new shiny paint !

[Reflex]

Oh dear, Oh dear.

Exactly the same thing was said when the Tiger first appeared and ate MGBs.

Then it was 'keep a 61 on standby just in case'.

It's called growing pains!

[Tail-take-off]

Then it was 'keep a 61 on standby just in case'.

And they still have a few 61s just in case:}

[Inverted81]

Hi,
Hopefully this wont be regarded as too much thread creep... IMHO as a Sumburgh radar controller bod, the BHL S92's appear to have been alot more reliable than the CHC aberdeen equivalent. I've seen maybe the odd day with only 4 or 5 airframes flying out the 6 but this seems very rare. I understand there was initial tail rotor gearbox issues wither water ingress, but this appears to have been remidied. :ok:

[Agusta]

G-ANLW now site in a museum in Norfolk on loan from the owner of Sloane Helicopters. I was being restored and had engine runs in the early 90's but the project was stopped. http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/norfolk/DSCF0060.jpg

[Bootneck]

Does anybody have any information on that most wonderful of radio operators from the '80s in Sumburgh, 'Steph'? Australian, rotund (allegedly), and delightful company; she was horrified to discover that Billy J Kramer wore a corset. Don't ask. :suspect:

To watch her running up and down the length of a 61 while some poor eejit was attempting a smooth water landing was hilarious. :D She must be out there somewhere.

[phive]

Yes, Bootneck, Arthur Sharples third from left!! L to R front row:
Tony Collins (he'd been told to cross his ankles but got confused!), Pete Bramley, Arthur, Doug Batten (Chief Pilot), Dick Sadler, Peter Frean, Graham (Bill) Bailey (sadly killed in the AAC display Team1969).
Back row: Can't remember, Gerry Sedgwick, Ted Blackwell (could add hours and mins quicker than anybody!! Before computers were heard of!!), Mike Norris, John Spreadbury, Can't remember!! Missing - Bryan Shaw (Manager).
Hush Puppies/Chukka Boots were a requirement but you can see that some were out of uniform that day. Happy Hiller days!!

[bondu]

phive

I think you mean Ted Blackwood standing next to Gerry Sedgewick.

After Gerry sent me on my first solo in January 1979, I had an instructor change: to Ted. Ted had put both his students on review and so he needed a 'new' stude to have a go at! Me! I'll always remember that his pre-flight lesson briefs used to last anything from an hour to two hours - he covered ALL the PoF bits extremely thoroughly! Even the de-briefs lasted at least thirty minutes! If I remember correctly, wasn't Ted the author of the PoF section of the RAF AP3456?

As they used to say "I learnt about flying from that"!!!! :)

bondu :ok:

[biggestboy]

From the old to the New !!!!!!!!!!!!

I took this of Rene and Ozzy last week in Escravos.

S76 C++
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/zorgs/Flying/S761_resize.jpg

[phive]

bondu!
Of course - Ted Blackwood! I couldn't remember if it was ...wood or ...well!! and picked the wrong one! Beg his pardon! Good memories of Ted though!

[Pooks]

And they still have a few 61s just in case:}I spy with my little eye...

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/gallery/cache/aircraft/helicopters/g-bcld.jpg_550.jpg

[demon_duck]

G-BCLD looking good!

I last saw her in the Falklands in 1989, Any idea how many hours now?

DD

[Tail-take-off]

Any idea how many hours now?

According to G-INFO:
31988 at 31/12/2005 (last Cof A renewal).
C of A expires 07/08/2008.

G-INFO will update then but I would expect it to be around 35000 by now (perhaps someone could update).

LD is the BHL S61 fleet leader in terms of hours. I suppose because the other aircraft of a similar age have been used on SAR for a number of years while LD has always had more intensive use.

[jonnyloove]

Cracking photo off G-LD. Does any one have any more pics off all the S-61's in Storage at Sumburgh.

Thank you....:)

[Pooks]

I have photos of Victor Alpha and Hotel Lima kicking about here somewhere. All three were in the hanger when I was there about a month ago.

[jonnyloove]

That would be a crack pic to see Pooks. Its a sad thought but the S-61 days are numbered in the U.k Bristows are selling them all on.

Regards.....:)

[Bootneck]

I'd appreciate a picture of WK if possible. :ok: I last flew her 18th May 1981, my book says Armstrong, can't remember if that was Steve? :eek:

[Pontious a Pirate]

:)

This was passed on to me by a friend. It was taken somewhere on the West Coast of Ireland I believe, sometime in the late 60's. I am assuming this by the clothes the people are wearing.

The S-55 behind the IHL A-III EI-ATO seems to registered G-ANFH. Can anyone shed any lght on the aircraft, location and what it was doing there?

Thanks.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z231/Seaking111/scan0016.jpg

[HOGE]

For Bootneck, a picture of WK

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg104/HOGE61/bhl016.jpg

[demon_duck]

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/demonduck550/bhl/G-BCLD.jpg

[demon_duck]

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/demonduck550/bhl/Redhill1981.jpg

[Oldlae]

G-ANFH was a Series 1 55 purchased by Bristow in 1969 from BEA helicopters for a contract at Blackpool. After servicing and repaint at Redhill Bill Pollard flew it to Blackpool with me along as the temporary engineer.The rig could be seen from the airfield and rumour has it that to carry 7 slf it could only have a fuel load of 40 gallons of avgas.
Last seen by me stored at Yarmouth, probably at Weston-super-Mare now.

[magbreak]

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/brisganfhbig.htm

Some more info on G-ANFH

[Pooks]

G-BBVA

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/gallery/cache/aircraft/helicopters/g-bbva.jpg_550.jpg

G-BBHL (http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/index.php?p=search&words=bristow)
http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/gallery/cache/aircraft/helicopters/g-bbhl.jpg_550.jpg

[batboy1970]

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn52/batboy1970/DSCF0116.jpg

[batboy1970]

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn52/batboy1970/DSCF0143.jpg

[mazakari]

G-AVII (AB206B)
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0013small.jpg

A-AVII (AB206B)
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0012small.jpg

G-AVII and G-CFDV (AB206B and S76 C++ )
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0036small.jpg

G-BIEJ (S76 A+ )
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0038small.jpg

G-ISSV (EC155B1)
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0042small.jpg

G-ISSV (EC155B1)
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0044small.jpg

[tonyosborne]

In her final days on the South Coast...

http://mysite.orange.co.uk/tonyosborne2/MCA04.jpg

[Koalainfoplease]

Pontius ; not sure of location yet, but the Alouette III was registered July 1970 and was lost into the sea May 1971, so at least narrows the date. Great pic..thanks !

[1helicopterppl]

Hi Craig,

always enjoy heli pics from Shetlands, in shot of BBVA & other ex SAR 61 there is another 61 at far end of hangar in new Bristow colours, can you advise reg as only two I know of are BCLD (Norwich) & BGWK (Turkey).

many thanks & keep sending pics, especially new S92's......

[batboy1970]

http://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn52/batboy1970/?action=view&current=DSCF0118.jpghttp://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn52/batboy1970/DSCF0115.jpg

[batboy1970]

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn52/batboy1970/DSCF0118.jpg

[sulli26]

http://www.speiliks-woodentoys.co.uk/Large%20Photos/Oscar%20Large%203.jpg"http://www.speiliks-woodentoys.co.uk/Large%20Photos/Oscar%20Large%202.jpg

[SASless]

92's in the Ninian.....quite a change since S-58T's single pilot with Decca, Monochrome Radar, two channel SAS and throat mikes.

Lordy I am getting old!

[Pooks]

Hi Craig,

always enjoy heli pics from Shetlands, in shot of BBVA & other ex SAR 61 there is another 61 at far end of hangar in new Bristow colours, can you advise reg as only two I know of are BCLD (Norwich) & BGWK (Turkey).

many thanks & keep sending pics, especially new S92's......
Check back to page 19, it is LD. :) (More piccies at http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/gallery/)

[212man]

That scafolding doesn't look very CAP 437 compliant.......;)

[Bootneck]

SASless, funny you should mention that. Here's part of a recent communication to me from a former driver.:ok:

cast your mind back to the 70s on the North Sea, ricocheting around like a wasp in a bottle, at 200 feet in fog, looking for a rig,

[SASless]

Ah yes dear boy.....back when men was men!

Day one for another American....how we going to find the rig says he. No problem says I....we'll do a radar let down to the biggest return on the radar and that will be the Etta then we scoot off under this stuff for our platform.

As we make visual contact with the water....we pull alongside a really huge tanker going somewhere besides the Etta. "Now What?" says he. Nay problem Jimmy says I....we'll just head for the next biggest return and figure out where the heck we are!:uhoh:

Do you know anyone who ever did the Decca Runway 27 approach to Sumbrugh single pilot at night?:mad::mad:

[500 Fan]

Piontious, thanks for posting that photo of the Irish Helicopters Ltd Alouette III. A rare photo indeed. If you have anymore old IHL-related stuff (Alouette II, III or early BO-105) please, please post it. Don't wish to hijack the Bristow thread but there is/was a strong connection between the two companies over the years so its OK (IMHO). Thanks.:ok:

500 Fan.

[Bootneck]

Do you know anyone who ever did the Decca Runway 27 approach to Sumbrugh single pilot at night?

Might as well have done it single pilot, the other bloke could only think about ........:mad::mad::mad:

I remember descending to 200' rad alt at about 5 miles then wandering down to the sea for a quick hover taxi in to the breakwater at the end of the runway, it always made ATC jump when they finally spotted the landing lamps as you taxied past the intersection. Then the Scillies 61 went in, we all saw sense and did the right thing in future, well most of us did. We weren't trained and paid to be heroes.

[SASless]

Bootie,

You must be a latecomer....Radalt???

We used to dream of having a Radalt.....but the Mandarins decided we could get by on three BarAlts!:{

[Phil Kemp]

Former G-BHOH. Langley, British Columbia; yesterday.

http://inlinethumb16.webshots.com/29967/2033798720044950357S600x600Q85.jpg

[CGWRA]

she getting chopped for logging?

[Phil Kemp]

No, just logging like that.

[Bootneck]

SASless, well they called it a radalt, seem to remember we had to wind the thread in before landing. It had a light though, linked to the cigarette lighter. :ok:

Have a look on Google Earth at Sumburgh, Unst is under clag, nothing changes.

[Rosh]

Some pics taken while operating G-BMCX out of Exmouth, WA.
April / May 2008


Exmouth Airstrip

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04200.jpg




Hotel Yankee setting off

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04222.jpg




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04224.jpg





Coasting out

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/IMG_1169.jpg





On the deck of the Stybarrow Venturer

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04354.jpg




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04238.jpg





Ningaloo Reef

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04372.jpg





No signs of ice!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04378.jpg





Charles Knife Gorge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04334.jpg





Turquoise Bay

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04434.jpg





I'll stay up here!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04440.jpg





Returning to Exmouth

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04321.jpg






Along the coast. Learmonth to Exmouth.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/IMG_1172.jpg





S76 getting back

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04391.jpg





I didn't believe the Australians when I was told that they employed staff to keep the seats warm.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04348.jpg

[pohm1]

Hmmmn, all of a sudden, Broome isn't looking so attractive :ok:

P1

[CGWRA]

I think I need to fly in australia

[DECUFAULT]

Hope you got your head set.....I can't sleep now...

[Rosh]

DECUFAULT, hope all is well in Miri!

Got the headset, cheers!

Trouble sleeping? Try a 'hot-water bottle' and some earplugs!

[DECUFAULT]

I see you have something to keep you warm at night....

[Taff Missed]

Found this in the attic. Its at Redhill and I'd guess late 60's/early 70's by the colour scheme.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll204/TaffMissed/WS55atRedhill-1.jpg

[Phil Kemp]

I prepared and loaded G-ANFH on a truck to go to the Helicopter Museum when I was an apprentice back in (maybe) 1978. She was stored at the back of the Blister hangar along with all the other old 55's from around the World. Bristow made some kind of deal with Heavylift and got all the old machines hauled back from Nigeria for the price of buying the fuel for the dead-head leg home.

The Blister hangar was full of all of them and there were more around the back - plus a bunch of Hillers.

I have a couple of superb 1950's model tin toys of this machine. If I ever get around to scanning any of my old pictures, I actually have some shots of her getting cleaned up and hauled off.

She is looking very sad around the back of the Museum nowadays though!

[Phil Kemp]

http://beatleshelp.50megs.com/images/ahdncopter.jpg

This is FH, with some rather famous pax in a movie role in A Hard Days Night.

Anyone know who the pilot is?

[Taff Missed]

Top two: Agusta-Bell 204B (9Y-TEA) on the Texaco contract departing Piarco - July 1977. Peter Heinzel flying.

Bottom: Bell 205A1. Early morning at Galeota Point 1978.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll204/TaffMissed/TrinidadPiarcoGaleota001.jpg

[atcomarkingtime]

wow...fantastic pics...loved the HY ones....and how to keep the seats warm!!!:ok:

[sycamore]

PK,that one of the `steam` WW is reversed...

[Phil Kemp]

You're right sycamore.

I was looking at that picture and couldn't figure out what didn't look right about it.

[heli1]

Phil Kemp is right about FH...definitely looking a bit sad at the Helicopter Museum but has its engine and plenty of spares ,including a straight tail boom (to replace the one lost when it was roaded from Gt Yarmouth to Redhill...lorry ended up in a ditch.)

I know the museum is keen to restore but it needs reskinning and the manpower to carry out the work.Good project for Bristow engineers /DARA apprentices in their spare time .What spare time I hear you ask !!!

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP_GJOLQoBc

[Senior Pilot]

As is this one: Last Bell 212 in Nigeria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZSX5udm8jk&feature=related) :ok:

[phive]

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd136/pandjfrean/BandarAbbas.jpg

Bandar Abbas January 1971 with Bill Barnett, two French geologists and good old 'Can't remember'!!! During a geo survey in that Southern part of Iran.

[phive]

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd136/pandjfrean/BAbbas.jpg

Just to show that take off areas were sometimes a bit tight! Southern Iran Jan 1971.

[phive]

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd136/pandjfrean/Alouette3EP-HBF.jpg

EP-HBF was pieced together at Redhill from two crashed a/c from Iran and became Serial no. 003. She was then ferry flown back to Iran in October 1970 via Marignane (for some mods), Italy, Greece, Turkey and into Iran. There was an ADF but didn't know how to use it!! Andre (?) Brilhault was the French engineer in the picture but not sure which airfield is shown.
Thought it might be of interest after all these pics of important looking modern machines!!!

[parabellum]

I took the first AB206A in Iran, (EP-HAO), into a place called Bahregan, north of Bushier, on 7th April 1968 to replace the Hiller on the Agip operation and flew it there for a month before I moved on to Indonesia. At that time the Allouette IIIs were based on Lavan Island supporting a French operation.

[phive]

Parabellum! Was that the one that jumped off the platform all by itself when JG went below for some reason and left the rotors running???

On 7 Feb '79 I brought back Bell 206 EP-HBT from Bandar Pahlavi to Tehran, probably one of the last 206 flights for IHAC before 'Sandstorm' !!

[Schinthe]

It was interesting to see EP-HBF once again.I was part of the team that rebuilt it at Redhill.Little more than a ser.No. plate and a cabin floor when we started it,it was quite satisfying when it flew off to Iran.
Jean Dennel gave me the chance to go with it but I declined ,(I cannot remember why now)

[Schinthe]

http://s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc229/Schinthe/DadsPhotos43.jpg (http://www.pprune.org/forums/s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc229/Schinthe/DadsPhotos43.jpg)

Here's another Hiller 12e offshore Eket on the Mobil contract,1970

[parabellum]

phive - Yes, sadly that was the same aircraft, brand spanking new and about three months late in delivery, AGIP were thrilled I hear!!!

However, in fairness to JG he didn't go below. A heavy radio had been loaded in the cargo hold at the rear, on arrival at the rig, (very shallow water, very high leg with helipad on top), all pax got out and disappeared down the ladder leaving JG well out of balance. No response to his repeated radio calls at all. JG frictioned down the controls and got out to unload the radio himself but the helipad was steel with no grip of any sort and almost immediately the aircraft started to move, JG just got out of the way in time to see it go over the side! There was a sort of rule/convention that if there was only room for one helicopter on a pad then one shouldn't shut down for fear of a subsequent failed start but when I was in AUH on a WS55/3 contract the company insisted we shut down for three or four hours at a time during well testing etc.
JG was a great guy and every one felt sorry for him, the good news was that he kept his job.

[AS332L1]

Could the unknown person be Frank Brimelow?

[Tail-take-off]

Bristow:
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2008-4/13130.jpg

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/2/4/0066429.jpg

BEAS:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1082244M.jpg

I'm surprised how few BEAS pictures have been posted her. I know speachlesstwo has posted some. Even after 30+ since they were bought by BHL somebody must have some:confused:

[Tail-take-off]

Bristow Tiger on Beatrice A, summer 2005.

bondu
http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l370/bondu701/BeatriceB03.jpg

[bondu]

Thanks tail. I was going to get around to posting some photos on this thread soon. So here is the first.

bondu

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l370/bondu701/Britannia05s.jpg

Tiger on short finals for the Britannia platform, 5th July 2006.

[Tail-take-off]

Great picture Bondu.

Sorry if I jumped the gun with your previous picture. If you have anymore I'm sure we would all love to see them.:ok:

[Fareastdriver]

Some things don't change. The Beatrice platforms must be the biggest sources of fertiliser in the UK.

[pzu]

I was working on contract to Dubai Petroleum

This was my favourite 'chariot' back to Town

http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n431/pzulba/EchoEchoDubai72or73.jpg


http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n431/pzulba/EchoEchoDubai72or73001.jpg

Yes that is a Victor in the background, and NO the kid's didn't have 'ACCESS ALL AREAS PASSES'

Believe it or not the 'outer pair' are Twins

PZU - Out of Africa (retired)

[pzu]

Whirlwind DL landing at DPC's Production 1

http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n431/pzulba/SMOAFBristowsWhirlwindDLDubai72or73.jpg

DL after a paint job


http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n431/pzulba/BristowsWhirlwindDLDubai72or73after.jpg

PZU - Out of Africa (Retired)

[wigwamwilly]

This is not just a thread this is just about the best helicopter history lesson ever to appear on the web.The guys that come out of the woodwork simply amazes me. Keep it coming!

[212man]

Believe it or not the 'outer pair' are Twins

Well it is a twin-pack...........;)

(I'll get my coat...)

[Taff Missed]

We had to do some fairly extensive skin work on 'DL for that respray. The mag alloy skins were rather susceptible to corrosion in such a salt-laden atmosphere. Anyway, one day Pat Patterson (Deep South DPC/Conoco honcho) was watching us and after a while said, "What kinda rivets y'all using?". To which Dave Atkinson replied, "Well, we're not all using the same kind of rivet", which caused us to fall about with the giggles while Pat P wondered what the hell he'd said to cause such merriment.

It loses something in writing it down - I think you had to be there.

Taff

[Tony Mabelis]

Nice to see the pictures of the Dubai DPC operation, someone must have pictures of the parties in the 'Bristow Zoo' circa 1977-80 ??

[HughMartin]

A couple of photos from a Bristow Zoo party in 1976



http://www.hughmartin.btinternet.co.uk/zoosmall.jpg

http://www.hughmartin.btinternet.co.uk/zoo2small.jpg

[HughMartin]

Another of the Dubai ramp

http://www.hughmartin.btinternet.co.uk/dubairampsmall.jpg


One of the Dubai Country Club (which I am told is no longer in the country)

http://www.hughmartin.btinternet.co.uk/Dubaiclubsmall.jpg

[HughMartin]

And a few more of the Zoo from the unofficial Bristow 50th Anniversary website (skyweaver.co.uk (http://www.skyweaver.co.uk))

http://209.196.171.35/images/abzoo3.jpg

http://209.196.171.35/images/abzooo2.jpg

http://209.196.171.35/images/ab21st.jpg

http://209.196.171.35/images/abzoo1.jpg

[Tony Mabelis]

Thanks for the 'Zoo' pictures, great.....we are all a lot older looking now!
The Country club is no more, a Bl..dy swindle, we bought life membership when we left in 1989!
Its a bit like trying to collect your Bristow pension!!

[carholme]

In the first picture, there is a big guy holding a camera. Anybody know who this is. Looks a lot like a fellow I worked with at Redhill in the early to mid '70s.

Regards

carholme

[SASless]

Might that not that be the cherubic "Cuddles" Scard himself with the camera?

[Oldlae]

Carholme.
Alan Biles.

[carholme]

Oldlae;

Many thanks, God how this aging plays terrible havoc with good memories. Really enjoyed those years at Bristow, especially in Egypt until the illustrious Don French fired my ass.

Was replacing a swashplate drive collar on one of the 205s we operated in Egypt and replacing it with one of the new split collar types. Used a standard practice from Canada at the time of securing and cutting the old collar off to save having to lift the head assy but one of the pilots thought I was butchering his helicopter and ratted to pouffy Ken boy who could hardly wait to get up Dons ass.

Great times and great people.

[Alan Biles]

That can't possibly be me (but unfortunately, I think it is)

AB

[Tony Mabelis]

Hi Alan, its nice to see you again!!

[Tony Mabelis]

Alan...before PPRUNE drives me nuts, send me a one liner at
[email protected]

[Alan Biles]

Hi Tony,

Check your PM's.

Alan

[Oldlae]

Carholme,
Do you mean Don Strange or John French?

[carholme]

Oldlae;

Many thanks and my apologies, Strange it was, definitely not John French.

Regards

carholme

[flyer43]

Oldlae

Maybe he meant Dawn French??

[forget]

In the first picture, there is a big guy holding a camera. Anybody know who this is. Looks a lot like a fellow I worked with at Redhill in the early to mid '70s.

Could it be Pete Robson?

[Tony Mabelis]

Alan, nothing arrived.
Tony

[Rosh]

July 2008
Some pics taken while operating 2 S76A++ out of Turkmenbashy, Turkmenistan, servicing the Caspian Sea.


2 x S76A++
(EZ-S703 - Helicopter Resources machine, and EZ-S704, formerly G-BJFL)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04735.jpg




And a cat.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04737.jpg




On the pan.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04748.jpg




Caspian coastline.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC05015.jpg




Shutdown on the Mopu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04851.jpg




Shutdown on the Trident 20

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04854.jpg




Return to Turkmenbashy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04909.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04914.jpg




Rotors turning on the Explorer

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC05064.jpg




On the way back to base. Turkmenbashy on the coast, Petronas oil refinery in the foreground.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC05023.jpg




Lee Burnett and myself keeping cool. OAT at Turkmenbashy 45oC. In the capital Ashkabad it was 52oC.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC05068.jpg




Try to say that quickly 5 times! Translates to Turkmenistan Airlines, Bristow's joint venture partner in Turkmenistan.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC05084.jpg




Sleeping on the job again! Another day at the sharp end.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC04822.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

HeliDown on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://flickr.com/photos/10213712@N07/2335974795)

HeliCub on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://flickr.com/photos/sobpost/2335974721/in/photostream/)

DadIndonesia on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://flickr.com/photos/sobpost/2336809410/in/photostream/)

[mazakari]

A few more. A bit more 'arty' than action though. ;)

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF1134small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF1152small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0891small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF1143small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF1139small.jpg

maz

[magbreak]

And here was me thinking you were turning my aircraft round....:)

[nodrama]

He was........to get the sunset in at the right angle!!

[mazakari]

One has to stick one's head outside the office every now and again - just not when it's raining !! :E


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF1157small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0892small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0898small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/DSCF0913small.jpg


Off to her new home . . . . . . . . . .


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/bxzs-004small.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/bxzs-007small.jpg

maz

[UKpaxman]

Finally recovered this pic off my old computer - Scatsta 2003, typical Oct weather.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a220/scoobydoo99/IMGP0001.jpg

And one of the mother ships - think it's TBIC

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a220/scoobydoo99/IMGP0002.jpg

[Scotsheli]

That last photo has clearly been doctored.

No one is ever going to believe that the wind was actually blowing down the runway at Scatsta. Please re-post the photo with the wind sock in the correct orientation (90 degrees to the runway centerline). Thank you

[chcoffshore]

Maybe they need the hanger space?

[ScotiaQ]

What a beautiful sight of the S61s in the hangar at Sumburgh. They look as good as new, a credit to Bristow Engineering. Made me feel quite nostalgic.

"I'm filling up Tommy".:D

[Report@Boddam]

bet the bristow hangar won't look like that in six months:rolleyes:

[Pooks]

Added pictures of G-BGWK and G-BGWJ pictured out side the Bristows Hanger a couple of weeks ago.

Gallery | Search (http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/index.php?p=search&words=bristow)

[Opssys]

Normally, I wouldn't intrude, especially when the picture is a lot less than the standard normally posted, but it is hopefuly of some historical interest
http://www.cue-dih.co.uk/tiam/pix/dih/acft/gallery-1974/1974BristowS55LGW.jpg

[atcomarkingtime]

Hello Bristow people...Anglia radar here.....so where has G-BXZS gone to....its not the one off to Ghana is it.
Great pics of the EC155....nice to see them for real instead of a wee dot on the radar tube!!!!
So...you guys were taking pics in the CLP area today.....I know...its a big area....but any chance of seeing any of those pics.....

[Oldlae]

opssys,
Looks like g-aynp taking off for Redhill after contract in South Africa.

[Gabra1]

Well what do you know!! I did my WS55 conversion on the same aircraft in early 1979 before heading off to Duri.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1369/1095120182_d2cafc9381_o.jpg

[Opssys]

Oldlae.
Looks like g-aynp taking off for Redhill after contract in South Africa

I bow to your superior knowledge, for me it was an unnexpected 'target of opportunity' hence the poor quality shot, not helped by being scanned from a 30+ year old print of even more dubious quality.

However it confirms my 'outsider view that Bristow Machines (and therefore their crews) tend to have 'interesting lives;.

[Tail-take-off]

From Leigh Bannister - Aircraft Engineers Bulletin Board (http://www.airmech.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=8166)
To the many friends he had around the world, some sad news. Leigh Bannister died on Friday 29th Feb after a short illness in Nigeria.

Leigh had over 30 years employment in Bristows, he was 54.

A great loss.


Leigh posted some photos here last year. I don't know if I'm allowed to out the deceased or not but look for pictures taken in Bulgaria & Nigeria (page 6 of this thread). I worked with him in Unst. He was a good engineer & great company.

[Thridle Op Des]

Good old Leigh, Third shot of Posting 83. Sad loss to us all.

TOD

[Tony Mabelis]

The picture of G-AYNP at Gatwick 'after contract in South Africa' is not the aircraft that was in Durban, sadly that one went for a very long swim in the Indian Ocean one night,and was never seen again!

Crew were O.K. picked up after many hours in the water.

[WhirlwindIII]

Sorry to hear NP was lost. Did my conversion to it in 1977/78. Hope the crew were in a raft!

[Tony Mabelis]

Whirlwind III, our wires are a little crossed.
G-AYNP could not be the aircraft that Ditched while ship servicing in Durban, as the accident occurred in 1975/76, and you converted in 1977/78.
The crew that ditched spent many hours in life jackets, drifting up and then down the coast out in the anchorage, before being picked up by a ship going in to Port Natal. The Dinghy went to the bottom in the A/C, as the crewman had not completely closed the cabin door, which led to the situation where it could neither be opened or jettisoned. Grant Williams, the crewman saved himself by swimming through a cabin widow.

[WhirlwindIII]

Tony

Ah! Got it. I was wondering ref: the Gabra1 post indicating NP was at Redhill during his 1979 conversion. Know which one wound up ditching?

Must have been dreadful bobbing in life jackets!

WIII

[Alan Biles]

G-AYTK I think. The ex-Manston SAR cab.

[WhirlwindIII]

Alan

Thanks!

WIII

[HeliEng]

Hi guys,

I apologise for Hijacking your pictures thread, but I thought I should stick a post up here.

I am not sure whether any of you guys/gals used to know Jes Steer, but sadly he passed away on 30th August, and I thought there might be some people here who may have wanted to know.

Cheers


Helieng

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.bristowhelicopters.com/helimaintain.com/images/facilities-pic02---location.jpg

[Thridle Op Des]

Thanks for that HeliEng, what's going on: Leigh first then Jess It is so sad to see two great guys meet a very untimely end. Maybe Nigeria takes more out of us than any of us realise at the time. To all the Nigerian old hands, look after your selves out there.

Respectfully

TOD

[Plank Cap]

Rest in peace Jes.

[Alan Biles]

Khasab, Oman. December 1980.

L-R: AB204B VR-BDX, Ian Mole (the elder), Bob Innes, Andy Paton, me.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/KhasabDec80-1.jpg

[Tony Mabelis]

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr223/anthonymabelis/Tony-1.jpghttp://i486.photobucket.com/albumIs anyone lurking out there that remembers this episode? Pilot John(porky) Willis, crewman Tony Mabelis.

[Rosh]

Some footage taken while ferrying G-BJGX, an S76A+, from Norwich to Accra.
I attempted to edit it down to less than 8 minutes.......and failed!

Viddler.com - Ferry Flight. Norwich, Uk- Accra, Ghana - Uploaded by Rosh_Jaypalan (http://www.viddler.com/explore/Rosh_Jaypalan/videos/7/)

Refuelling in Kiffa, Mauritania.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC06215.jpg

[Phil77]

Nice work! :ok:
I'm a bit jealous.

...if you see Mike, tell him I said hi!
(met him in Norwich shortly before your trip)

[he1iaviator]

Makes my ferry flying seem very mundane and my blog very boring. Nice movie Rosh, I think you're wasted as a helicopter driver. You should be in Hollywood!

Did Ian behave himself?

[stacey_s]

The long way round eh!, did Redhill Lagos twice across the middle in 212's, good fun insanely jealous, give my regards to Mr. Shields

Stacey Shilling

[budgie 75]

Great vid Rosh. Give me a shout next time your in Aberdeen and ill let you buy me a beer:ok:

[Pofman]

Rosh
Great video, I am sure everybody will enjoy it.
So much in just 8 years.
All the newbies have so much to look forward to.
Keep up the good work.
G

[212man]

Great video! I did pretty much the same route 4 times in 2001-2002. Once with an A++ Redhill-Lagos (single pilot - not sure why you were so overmanned :E) and 3 trips Marseilles-Lagos in the EC-155. Slight difference in routing with a stop in the Canaries rather than Laayoune, and not quite so low........

Sadly, they were before I got a digital camera, so my record is mainly confined to memory.

Good to see the pictures of Bill and Jose in fine form. I see the early nights, vitamin pills and fresh fruit juices are keeping Ian looking as young as ever.....;)

[huanhunglo]

Lutong it was for the 205, had to look in my log book and there it was. Happy daze:)

[huanhunglo]

Well, blow me what a sorry group. I remember Alan fell out of 'puff' while giving a lunch box to some passengers, despite hanging on the monkey harness under the helicopter he didnt let go until the suprised pax took the box from him. Also while I was learning the area he walked on the port skid tube to tap on the windscreen, the CofG ws interesting. Nice to know you are still around, bob has I understand passed on.

[huanhunglo]

Well, actually it fell over about the 20th may '83, I picked it up and put it onto a barge on about the 24th, for some reason my log book doesn't have a date of the lift, I have a photo though, taken by someone else. Reg 9M-SSJ. It was re-built and then flown home by Dick Houry who sadly died a few days after.

[huanhunglo]

Yes you are correct it was the E23, see my previous link

[he1iaviator]

Mention of Alan and C of G reminded me of Christmas day 1981:

Who remembers what was going on here?

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/PK-HBUSeletarSingapore25Dec1981Alan.jpg

[Rosh]

Phil77 - I'll say hi to Mike when I see him.

Hel1aviator - I'd rather have been flying it to Vietnam!! As for the footage making your ferry look mundane, it's amazing what a bit of music can do. Also I edited out the other 33 hrs 52mins of straight and level! And as for Ian behaving?.....of course he didnt!!!

Stacey_s - Ian is with us here in Ghana, I'll pass on your regards!

Budgie 75 - I think it's your round. I'll be in ABZ late December!

Pofman - As for "so much in 8 years" : there is a lot to be said for "being in the right place at the right time."
The Newbies (I still feel like a newbie) at the Academy, as it is now called, certainly do have lots to look forward to.
From the sponsored courses HP55/56 or JAA1/2 the variety in career path is wide. Having all had the North Sea initiation, 8 years on a couple are flying EC135 for UK Air Ambulance, one flying S92 for HM Coastguard, two flying the AS332L2 Offshore SAR, one flying S61 for the Irish Coastguard, and another being the Chief Pilot of Bristow Trinidad.
I'll try to find some photos taken while on the course 8 years ago. (Don't worry lads, sober pics associated with flying only!)

212man - You must be able to do that trip with your eyes closed. With regard to being a little lower than you at some stages......we had a better tailwind down there....honest.

[huanhunglo]

Hi Bootneck, recognise the photo can't remember all the name! Stephi de-camped to OZ we lost contact about 10 years ago, does that help?
Dont forget my baby monkey in Miri......

AP

[Alan Biles]

Huanhunglo.

"I remember Alan fell out of 'puff' while giving a lunch box to some passengers, despite hanging on the monkey harness under the helicopter he didnt let go until the suprised pax took the box from him".

Hmmm. Well not quite but I can't deny that I fell out.

"Also while I was learning the area he walked on the port skid tube to tap on the windscreen, the CofG ws interesting".

Can't deny that either. Young and foolish but it was good fun.

"bob has I understand passed on".

Really sorry to hear that.

Were you in Khasab or Muscat?

--------------
He1iaviator

PK-HCD (30017) had just been through the refurbish programme run by a work party headed up by Angus McLeod in the Singas hangar. I think we'd just done a comp wash when the Argosy needed to get by. Rather than put wheels on and move out of the way it was much easier all round to put some weight on the tail, hence the throng of filipinos and others helping me hold it down.

[Alan Biles]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/Muscat19Feb80.jpg

Setting up on Day one at Medina Qaboos. We were taking over from Jim Sommerscales (sp?) who'd been flying and maintaining a 206 with Crescent Helicopters.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/Muscat-thelunchtimelumpyrun.jpg

The lunchtime 'lumpy run'. It was one of these runs that I managed to fall out of whilst handing an Igloo of water to a worker at one of the pylon sites. Sometimes the ac was so full on departue I had to stand on the skid until there was room to sit in the door.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/Muscat-pouringconcrete.jpg
Pouring concrete into the shuttering around the pylon base.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/MuscatJul80Hookinguptrestles.jpg
Hooking up a bunch of trestles. These were used to keep the conductor off the ground before tensioning.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/MuscatJul80Finishedarticle.jpg
The finished article. We assisted in the construction of 48 of these.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l318/AlanBiles_51/Muscat-headingbacktoDXB.jpg

Packed up and ready to leave Medina Qaboos for Dubai. We operated from this pad from Feb to August 1980.

[Tail-take-off]

Admittedly before they were with Bristows but does anyone recognise these faces from the mugshots:

http://www.flyingmarines.com/Other_RM_pictures/Parry.jpg

http://www.flyingmarines.com/Images/Streeter.jpg



Answers here (http://www.flyingmarines.com/Biographies/1971-1980/Parry.htm) & here (http://www.flyingmarines.com/Biographies/1961-1970/Streeter.htm).

[soggyboxers]

How sad to hear that Bob Innes has died. I've been trying to contact him on my last couple of leaves and was rather worried that something may have happened after I failed to get a Christmas card from he and his 'mummy' last year. If anyone knows how to contact Doris, please PM me. Bob and I flew 58Ts together when I first joined Bristow and served together on many operations over the years. He was always such an enthusiastic pilot and I always remember sharing a 'schlafwagen' with him when we were on the Prakla Seismos contract in Iran. He would always have difficulty negotiating the way to the ladder for his top bunk, so sometimes slept on the floor for an hour or so first before wetting the desert and then going to bed. He slept flat on his back and on waking sat up straight always exclaimed, "Seisshaus mouse, it is so good here and the lumpy is magic!". His command of German was legendary and I'll always remember his explanation to Herr Ochse, the Prakla manager as to what the problem was with one of our helicopters - "Ah her Ochse, the helicopter is abgefuched!".

Only 2 years ago he had bought a new BMW motorbike, but skidded on a roundabout on the ice and broke his collarbone. His 'mummy' said it was time he stopped riding bikes, but he was just cross because he'd scratched the expensive paint job on the fairing!

RIP old friend

I've done quite a few ferry flights to and from Nigeria in a variety of helicopters and I'll try and find some of my old photos as all the ones I have done in the last few years have been for Schreiner and Caverton. Even though it's not a Bristow photo, did you see this island in a lake in Mali Rosh? It's not marked on the old TPC maps I've always had, though it's on my Michelin motoring map! It's pretty much on the direct track between Banjul and Bamako:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/Maliislandinlake-1.jpg

I really liked your vid Rosh and wish I had something like it. I hope I'll one day have a final chance of another ferry or two before I reach my sell-by date. It looks as if you had to make quite a few fuel stops. I was lucky on my first S76 ferry when I brought the first 76C+ to Africa as we had the Schreiner ferry kit with 4 drums of fuel in the cabin and pumped fuel through the modified aft cabin bulkhead direct into the tanks via another modification in the baggage compartment. The flight was from Stockholm, Arlanda to Lagos. We had a few trials and tribulations along the way as 45 minutes south of Stockholm, IMC with a faulty autopilot and GPS we had an MGB chip warning, necessitating an emergency landing in Skavsta. We also had to spend a few days in Helsingborg for a turbine module change as one engine was consistently failing PA. After that we routed to Osnabrück for fuel and on for a night stop at Troyes, near Reims. The next day we got to Perpignan non-stop but had a problem with oil consumption which had to be sorted before continuing. We wanted to try the ferry kit the next day and made Perpignan to Malaga via overhead Barcelona (when it seemed our transponder had failed) in one go. Next day we went direct to Marrakech but as Western Sahara was closed in those days, had to route direct to Fuerteventura for our next night stop. We had the fuel to route from there direct to Nouadibhou for fuel and on for a night stop in Banjul. From there direct to Bamako was another long leg, followed by a shorter one to Ougadougou for a night stop. The leg from there to Lagos seemed very short! I still like that route better than the long drag we used to have to take across the Sahara.

[stacey_s]

H i Shag

Also sorry to hear thr old Yarpie has passed on, have fond memories of him from Muscat with Mr Biles and myself, also some time offshore Brent, Good friend and true gent, did you ever see the tie trick done with such aplomb!!!

Stace

PS please PM with details

[nessboy]

Sorry to hear Bob passed on,will always remember the great parties at No 1 Hardbrakes and how the locals were amused when he came to work on his motorbike in shorts in September in Shetland!!!!
He also entertained everyone with his tie trick at my stag night in the Portapub Happy Days.
nessboy

[SASless]

Sogs dear boy....."sell by date"?

Obselete and destined for the dung heap you are Laddy!

Except for the chickens pecking on ya...it ain't all bad out here.

Perhaps I will have to post a Kodak moment of a pair of 21 year old legs disappearing into the icebox on the boat to give you an idea of what I mean.:ok:

I always wanted to adopt a child.;)

[Tail-take-off]

BEAS/Bristow:
http://shetlopedia.com/images/thumb/b/be/BEAS_Helic..JPG/800px-BEAS_Helic..JPG


G-BHOG leaving the "taxi rank" Lerwick:
http://shetlopedia.com/images/thumb/f/f9/Lerwick_---_S61-N_Helicopter_G-BHOG_%28Bristow%29.jpg/410px-Lerwick_---_S61-N_Helicopter_G-BHOG_%28Bristow%29.jpg

http://shetlopedia.com/images/1/11/Oscarc3.jpg

[SASless]

What ever happened to John (aka Frosty)Tanagawa of BEAS fame?






Frosty......a Nip in the air....giddit?

[John Eacott]

Frostry: now there's a name from the past!

This tail rotor is on show at Weston Super Mare: anyone privy to the full story?

http://gallery.me.com/johneacott/100574/DSCN3532/web.jpg

http://gallery.me.com/johneacott/100574/DSCN3533/web.jpg

[griffothefog]

RIP Bob,

Remember Bob from back when I was a baby baggage handler with Bristow in Shetland circa 1978, very funny guy...

Tail Rotor.... Is it a S55? Anybody know who the Griffiths was in the Trinidad portion of the blade? :confused:

[meloni]

look like a 47 tail rotor, isn't it?

[Oldlae]

There was a 50th anniversary do at the museum for Bristow about 5 years ago, I guess this is to do with it, I went to the evening reception and three of the names on the 47 T/R were there, Cliff Saffron, Sharkey Ward and John (the Wad) Waddington. Some really old names there, I lodged with Ron Hodge when I did my RAF resettlement course at Redhill in 1969 and he was just about retired then.

[parabellum]

That is a really interesting tail rotor and has brought back so many memories.
Tony English, (one of Nature's gentlemen) and John Waddington, two very nice guys, both ex Peru and I met them in Indonesia, Duri, when they were flying the 205. No mention of John Odlin or Bob Potts?
I see the name Baker there, was that 'Bent Nose'? or am I mixing things up?
Bill Farnell I first met in Iran in 1968, what a character! ex WO Pilot from the RAF, would sit in a horse shoe shaped bar in Tehran when on time-off and casually ask someone near him, :"And when did you first realise you were homosexual?"
Cliff Saffron, another great guy, was our chief engineer in AUH when we had G-ANJV, WS55Series3, played a handy game of darts, and would be heard calling out "arrers mucker!" to any team member who needed support.
Peter Gray was an instructor at Middle Wallop when I was there in 1964/5, sure it is him, also from Fernando Po, I think?
The K.Bryant rings a bell, was it Keith Bryant? sure I met him somewhere!
Keith Wilkins, we first met in Tehran in 1968, it was the Iranian New Year and we had to get to Khorrmshah so Ken Bradley, the area manager, said, "No problem, you can deliver the company Peugeot station wagon", and so we did, Keith drove, Liz and his infant child in the back and me with a map, only one road anyway, so it didn't matter much but the drive up through the mountains and than back down to the top of the Gulf is a journey I'll never forget, (and Keith's driving was good!).
On arrival in Khorrmshah we were met by Horst Voight, another really nice person who I met again on Das many years later.
The only Griffiths I remember was John Griffiths, ex RN and South America who set up the WS55 operation in Abu Dhabi before returning to England.
Thanks for that picture of the tail rotor, really got the memory bank going!

[Nigerian Expat Outlaw]

Could the Griffiths be John, ex MP Trinny and then Personnel Supt before he retired ? He did my interview and Steve Medlin was the tea boy who also delivered the internal mail !!

The boy done good............

NEO :ok: