Rotorheads Around the World (incl 'Views from the Cockpit')
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Chucked these up on Bladeslapper but some of the ex-PNG guys on this forum may recognise them...
Doing the run between Mt Hargen and Porgera
Ka32 at Mt Hargen. The Aeroflot pilots driving those things got $25US a day and they thought they were in hog heaven.
Longline with the Ka at Mt Kare, PNG
Another longline, this time with the 'bus'
Doing the run between Mt Hargen and Porgera
Ka32 at Mt Hargen. The Aeroflot pilots driving those things got $25US a day and they thought they were in hog heaven.
Longline with the Ka at Mt Kare, PNG
Another longline, this time with the 'bus'
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Here's one for HWB, in peacetime, either 78/79 or 79/80:
and a couple from the BP Forties in the summer of 80:
I wasn't the driver of any of these - my old man was the big boss of Endurance, and I worked on the Belford Dolphin alongside BP Forties Charlie in the summer of 1980 as a fireman/heli deck roustabout. Hence I have none of the 365, the 105 or the shore-based 61s with their rotors running.
and a couple from the BP Forties in the summer of 80:
I wasn't the driver of any of these - my old man was the big boss of Endurance, and I worked on the Belford Dolphin alongside BP Forties Charlie in the summer of 1980 as a fireman/heli deck roustabout. Hence I have none of the 365, the 105 or the shore-based 61s with their rotors running.
Now I know what a Dog watching Television feels like!
SASless,
It was probably the dog that took the photo - you know, the one whose job it is to bite the pilots if they try to interfere with the automatics in flight...
It was probably the dog that took the photo - you know, the one whose job it is to bite the pilots if they try to interfere with the automatics in flight...
It was probably the dog that took the photo - you know, the one whose job it is to bite the pilots if they try to interfere with the automatics in flight...
I'm (in the photo) just trying to work out which button to press to make the thing get off the ground
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It was actually a chap called Andy Shaw - I'll tell him he's been called a dog!
The very same. Now there could be some very interesting 'rotorheads around the world' photos from house 1 (shut the f*****g door 
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(shut the f*****g door )
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The "good" old days
At the request of SP here are some phots from the family album.
They were all taken during Father's tenure as CO of the SAR flight RNAS Ford 1953-55. Westland license built Dragonfly with very little power and no hinge offset on the rotorhead, note the CofG control ballast weights on the transportation joint. With Meteors, Wyverns, Fireflies, Vampires & Seafuries in the parish they were a busy outfit.
The scoop net was designed as Dad had no wish to share the tiny S51 cockpit/cabin with the not-so-recently deceased it kept the crew together in the aircraft during the pickup and came in handy for recovery of incapacitated victims. The stretcher was designed for transfer of casualties between ships.
The low power reserves dictated that most operations had to be carried out IGE but with a low disc loading the downwash (see pic 4)was not an issue and this made netting considerably easier than on the more powerful and heavier machines it was later used on.
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2 Dad's favourite crewman CPO Jan Lock a WWII vintage Swordfish TAG who knew what he doing and navigated with a "Bigsworth board"
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It is staggering how capable the new SAR machines are by comparison. the courage of the crews remains the same and have my utmost respect, keep up the good work
Some more pictures
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These last two are caption competition fodder for H&S at work
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They were all taken during Father's tenure as CO of the SAR flight RNAS Ford 1953-55. Westland license built Dragonfly with very little power and no hinge offset on the rotorhead, note the CofG control ballast weights on the transportation joint. With Meteors, Wyverns, Fireflies, Vampires & Seafuries in the parish they were a busy outfit.
The scoop net was designed as Dad had no wish to share the tiny S51 cockpit/cabin with the not-so-recently deceased it kept the crew together in the aircraft during the pickup and came in handy for recovery of incapacitated victims. The stretcher was designed for transfer of casualties between ships.
The low power reserves dictated that most operations had to be carried out IGE but with a low disc loading the downwash (see pic 4)was not an issue and this made netting considerably easier than on the more powerful and heavier machines it was later used on.
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2 Dad's favourite crewman CPO Jan Lock a WWII vintage Swordfish TAG who knew what he doing and navigated with a "Bigsworth board"
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It is staggering how capable the new SAR machines are by comparison. the courage of the crews remains the same and have my utmost respect, keep up the good work
Some more pictures
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These last two are caption competition fodder for H&S at work
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A view from the office this morning; unfortunately a little misty.
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If you are shooting into the sun , set the exposure at around +0.5 or +1 ...... over expose by up to one setting , the camera is actually underexposing in your pics pointing at the sky if you dont over ride exposure in auto mode.
Nice subject and good shots none the less , you could always modify the exposure in a photoshop software program on a pc .
Nice beast the CHC S92
Nice subject and good shots none the less , you could always modify the exposure in a photoshop software program on a pc .
Nice beast the CHC S92
nice pictures. Glad to see the new Sikorsky ground level helipad/short field procedures have been introduced
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