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Old 15th Apr 2008, 13:03
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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.........
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Old 15th Apr 2008, 13:09
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Hi skid gear with fairings. You don't see that everyday in a jetranger.
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Old 15th Apr 2008, 14:45
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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?
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Old 15th Apr 2008, 15:28
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It does look like Paul....but then that begs the question...rotors turning and Paul outside for a photo shoot?????
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Old 15th Apr 2008, 15:59
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I guess the blades were just not tied down, probably for artistic reasons. The a/c didn't have a rotor brake.
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Old 16th Apr 2008, 07:50
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Sumburgh Pic

TTO
I thing that picture was mid seventies,old hangar still there.
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Old 16th Apr 2008, 10:10
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you could be right!
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Old 16th Apr 2008, 16:08
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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?
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Old 16th Apr 2008, 16:52
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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.
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 13:34
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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!
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 14:22
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Middle Wallop 1967!!

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!!!


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Old 29th Apr 2008, 15:15
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Mike Norris, 3rd from right Back row?
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 19:40
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A cheery bunch...
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 20:13
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Interesting pics.

One question, does Tiger = Super Puma?
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 20:40
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K12479, yes, Tiger = Super Puma.

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?
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 21:21
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And Pete Frean front row second from the right.
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Old 29th Apr 2008, 22:08
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Unbelievable! I went through Wallop on course 173, Oct 1964 to 1965 and I don't recognise a single one of those instructors
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Old 2nd May 2008, 20:40
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Gerry Sedgwick

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.
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Old 9th May 2008, 20:21
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Some potatoes







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

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