Bristow Photos
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From: Cyprus
Nic Nicholls video info....
Seemed to work OK but obviously the video info box cannot be viewed from this thread, so:
1. Joe Wright landing at Redhill Aerodrome, winter 1964, after a ferry flight from Dubai.
2. Location Bahrain. Refuelling from cans via chamois leather cloth filters. Whirlwind in Westland colours - no time for respray!
Seemed to work OK but obviously the video info box cannot be viewed from this thread, so:
1. Joe Wright landing at Redhill Aerodrome, winter 1964, after a ferry flight from Dubai.
2. Location Bahrain. Refuelling from cans via chamois leather cloth filters. Whirlwind in Westland colours - no time for respray!
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From: Sussex UK
G-BKVP
The pic of that S76 was taken in Brindisi shortly after the aircraft was converted to an A+. I was engineer on the flight with Bob Winter - was a nice job - around an hour a day at worst. After I left Kev Smith took over and completed the detachment.
We did several detachments with Helitalia using a BHL S76, a Helitalia AB412 with 3B's in it and an ex HKAAF S76A+ in Ancona.
We did several detachments with Helitalia using a BHL S76, a Helitalia AB412 with 3B's in it and an ex HKAAF S76A+ in Ancona.
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From: Cornwall
Whilst technically not a Bristow photo, I came across a photograph of 848 RNAS taken in January 1967 in one of my 7 logbooks!. It is interesting to see how many of these aircrew worked at sometime for Bristows
Some of these, apologies for memory lapses these days, who worked for Bristow/BEAS were:
Brian Bellingham, Dave Goodenough-Bayly, Mike Holcoroft, Martin Wibmer, Geoff Evans, Chris Powell, yours truly, Dave Winter, and Ian Oak-Rhind
John Whale
Some of these, apologies for memory lapses these days, who worked for Bristow/BEAS were:
Brian Bellingham, Dave Goodenough-Bayly, Mike Holcoroft, Martin Wibmer, Geoff Evans, Chris Powell, yours truly, Dave Winter, and Ian Oak-Rhind
John Whale
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From: Cyprus
The Great Akrotiri Drag Race
As I said in a previous post - I think we can include the FBH fleet in the Bristow thread as the fleet does appear in the current Bristow aircraft whereabouts list AND the "B" in FBH is Bristows.
A video I have just posted on Daily Motion.
I am not sure if this video ever made it around the helicopter world. I have no idea who owns the copyright. It deserves to be out there - a great video with some excellent editing.
Dailymotion - The Great Akrotiri Drag Race - a Auto-Moto video
As I said in a previous post - I think we can include the FBH fleet in the Bristow thread as the fleet does appear in the current Bristow aircraft whereabouts list AND the "B" in FBH is Bristows.
A video I have just posted on Daily Motion.
I am not sure if this video ever made it around the helicopter world. I have no idea who owns the copyright. It deserves to be out there - a great video with some excellent editing.
Dailymotion - The Great Akrotiri Drag Race - a Auto-Moto video
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From: Cyprus
Having just returned from a pretty good Italian meal washed down by a good Chianti, the dog asleep by my side and Jan watching "Coup" next to the dog.....
Bristow Bars and favourite watering holes
It is quite probable that had Bristow Helicopters set up a worldwide chain of bars and restaurants then we would be sitting on a small fortune by now. The Bristow Bars were an important part of the community providing somewhere to whine over a few cold beers as well as providing facilities such as snooker tables, barbecues, video rooms, libraries and even playgroups.
These pictures are dedicated to all the people that spent a lot of their own time building and running these bars and clubs.
Also included are some of the more popular bars and restaurants that staff used to frequent. As there are 46 pics sucked from the web site I will spread them over a few postings and no particular order / base.
I "invested" a lot of my time at number 17 Warri. Great memories.... This was my first long term posting, thanks to an nasty incident in No.17 where, as a result, the avionic engineer was removed from the country pretty sharpish.
.....the indoor barbecue....... OK until the giant extractor fan failed!
.........sawing the heads and tails off huge Baracudas so they would fit in the freezer ready for "Fish and Chip" nights.
........the "test flight" to the SKOL brewery in the middle of Nigerian nowhere ......the brewmasters being from Horley in Surrey!!!!
....... trying to re-seat a leaking cork in a newly collected barrel of SKOL, pushing the cork into the barrel, blinding myself with a hyper-sonic jet of beer and flooding the No.17 stock room, along with thousands of contraband cigs!!
........ and in the early days of looking after keg beer, getting the check 2 team wrecked on neat alcahol, after unknowingly freezing a barrel, and serving extremely strong SKOL ..... some would say - a vast improvement on the extremely weak SKOL.
.......etc etc .... just normal Bristow Bar stuff
....more to follow
Bristow Bars and favourite watering holes
It is quite probable that had Bristow Helicopters set up a worldwide chain of bars and restaurants then we would be sitting on a small fortune by now. The Bristow Bars were an important part of the community providing somewhere to whine over a few cold beers as well as providing facilities such as snooker tables, barbecues, video rooms, libraries and even playgroups.
These pictures are dedicated to all the people that spent a lot of their own time building and running these bars and clubs.
Also included are some of the more popular bars and restaurants that staff used to frequent. As there are 46 pics sucked from the web site I will spread them over a few postings and no particular order / base.
I "invested" a lot of my time at number 17 Warri. Great memories.... This was my first long term posting, thanks to an nasty incident in No.17 where, as a result, the avionic engineer was removed from the country pretty sharpish.
.....the indoor barbecue....... OK until the giant extractor fan failed!
.........sawing the heads and tails off huge Baracudas so they would fit in the freezer ready for "Fish and Chip" nights.
........the "test flight" to the SKOL brewery in the middle of Nigerian nowhere ......the brewmasters being from Horley in Surrey!!!!
....... trying to re-seat a leaking cork in a newly collected barrel of SKOL, pushing the cork into the barrel, blinding myself with a hyper-sonic jet of beer and flooding the No.17 stock room, along with thousands of contraband cigs!!
........ and in the early days of looking after keg beer, getting the check 2 team wrecked on neat alcahol, after unknowingly freezing a barrel, and serving extremely strong SKOL ..... some would say - a vast improvement on the extremely weak SKOL.
.......etc etc .... just normal Bristow Bar stuff
....more to follow
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From: Glasgow
Interesting video Dave, but it looks like a BBC production with the lack of consistency.
412 starts off with an apparent empty cabin on LHS, loses the winch after the fly-by, then winch re-appears with rescue equipment, etc. in LHS of cabin as it finally lands. And in the closing shot the winch has disappeared again.
At least it was all done for a charitable cause.
412 starts off with an apparent empty cabin on LHS, loses the winch after the fly-by, then winch re-appears with rescue equipment, etc. in LHS of cabin as it finally lands. And in the closing shot the winch has disappeared again.
At least it was all done for a charitable cause.
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From: texas
I have many fond memories of the "Wooden Bar" and especially the "Concrete Bar" in Abu Dhabi in the mid 70's. Alan Saunders and Alan Elgee had a nice cinderblock bar in their flat in the Al Khouri building. Spent countless hours in the Concrete Bar explaining the superiority of all things American to John Truslove.
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From: Devon
js0978.
Like you I have very good memories of the concrete and wooden bars, I still have a tankard given to me for buying 200 beers in a month. Note buying, not drinking. I wish I had taken a photo of the bars, the concrete bar was fashioned from breeze blocks and the wooden bar was erected by a local builder. Sadly, Alan Saunders is no longer with us.
Like you I have very good memories of the concrete and wooden bars, I still have a tankard given to me for buying 200 beers in a month. Note buying, not drinking. I wish I had taken a photo of the bars, the concrete bar was fashioned from breeze blocks and the wooden bar was erected by a local builder. Sadly, Alan Saunders is no longer with us.