The Rotary Nostalgia Thread
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Dare I mention the Fiat 7002?
That Bell 48/Agusta 102 does look a bit like an early and rather ill-defined Bell 204, any commonality?
Spinwing, not sure what Malapropism (as I used to call him) is up to now, kind of disappointed he's not made PM yet!
However, from these photos (well after my time) he seems to be maturing nicely!
Mal with Barry Ball at 'Specific's'
Goroka hangar
Mal 'The MP' handing over a donation (observe Mal's grief-stricken expression) to the Eastern Highlands School Boys President, Ellyson Ketauwo
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Heston 'Last Flight' to Fairoaks
This shot of G-BCWN departing Heston 6 June 1978 was extracted from the CAA house newsletter. The old tower wasn't long for this world (demolition Dec78)
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Mmmm ...
Cripes .... Barry Ball has put on a bit of 'condition' since I last saw him ...
Where's that Doberman of his ... probably off chasing a 'local' I'd guess ... (dog would have passed years ago I'd assume) ...
Ha ... those were the days ...
Thought I'd heard a rumour that Mal became Governor of the EHP ????
How unusual !!!
Cripes .... Barry Ball has put on a bit of 'condition' since I last saw him ...
Where's that Doberman of his ... probably off chasing a 'local' I'd guess ... (dog would have passed years ago I'd assume) ...
Ha ... those were the days ...
Thought I'd heard a rumour that Mal became Governor of the EHP ????
How unusual !!!
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Cab rides for brown jobs
I believe the RAF called those in the British Army 'brown jobs' during WWII (probably laughably out-of-date slang, now) but how did helicopters become known as cabs in the British Army?
Westland Scout XV130 doing a bit of 'cabbing' at Heathrow 1972....US Army Kiowa 71-20449 on display in Europe 1974ish...both went onto civil registration
Westland Scout XV130 doing a bit of 'cabbing' at Heathrow 1972....US Army Kiowa 71-20449 on display in Europe 1974ish...both went onto civil registration
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I thought 'cab' was a Fleet AIr Arm Slang and that the Brown Jobs used the slang 'frames'. Which is probably a corruption of 'Picture Frame'...... no..... really?? 'airframes' ?? I didn't think that Pongos could spell words that long.
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Another of those aviation mysteries? Why 'cab' and when?
(last week I couldn't spell ingineur, today I are one..........' 
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I believe he was 93. In his final years he did not fly by himself, but always liked to come along on jobs and he would take the controls frequently.
Gordy - Queste sono Bellissime!
Tell me, what age was the old boy in your image of him flying the 206?
Tell me, what age was the old boy in your image of him flying the 206?
I believe he was 93. In his final years he did not fly by himself, but always liked to come along on jobs and he would take the controls frequently.
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Wow! That's great. I always love seeing both ends of the spectrum .. the youngsters reaching ahead early on and the old boys sticking with it till the very end, great stuff! 
Dennisimo I hope you're reading this .. you see you're still a spring chicken!
Dennisimo I hope you're reading this .. you see you're still a spring chicken!
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A Lynx helicopter of 847 Naval Air Squadron lands on the snow covered deck of HMS Ocean during Exercise Cold Response, Northern Norway on 24th February 2010. 'Cold Response' was a NATO exercise hosted by the Norwegian armed forces. Nearly 2000 Royal Navy sailors, Royal Marines and soldiers took part with further support from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
ShyTorque wrote: Check out that Puma in the background; my old sqn too by the looks of it. I think that was a Tiger Meet year!
AS330E HC1 Puma of 230 Squadron seen at Upper Heyford on 4th September 1990 wearing the RAF's special 'Tiger' paintwork
US Marine Corps pilot, Captain Bill Spicer, at the controls of a Royal Navy Wessex on board the commando carrier HMS Bulwark during a NATO training exercise (probably in the Mediterranean) in November 1969. Prior to being attached to No. 845 Squadron at Culdrose, Captain Spicer had previously flown operational sorties with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam
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Ah no FH1100 pilot that's a Morris Marina...an all British car 
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launched in 1971 the model was facelifted somewhat desperately around 1980 by an Italian car stylist Giorgetto Giugaro's Italdesign Studio and it became the Morris ITAL, built in the UK until 1984
Morris Ital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
....launched in 1971 the model was facelifted somewhat desperately around 1980 by an Italian car stylist Giorgetto Giugaro's Italdesign Studio and it became the Morris ITAL, built in the UK until 1984
Morris Ital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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G-AYMW was, I think, photographed at the RAF Finningley Air Display (1974 or it might have been 1976)...I believe this machine lived in Yorkshire back then
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Did the non-Bristow Tigers look something like this?
I last flew that airframe, XW224 on Sep 30th, 1983.
The crewman on that occasion later went on to be a first officer on Concorde.
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Savoia....You've already got a small photo of G-AYMW on p31 of this thread while it was with B.E.A.S ...I'll try to date mine more precisely...an external search in google 'G-xxxx Jetranger pprune' finds the relevant page in this thread nicely
