You could .. but then I would have to start searching for a suitably large rock under which to crawl!

Bell/Agusta cooperation was exceptionally close at that time and the 204 was being developed when Agusta began their efforts on the 102 so, highly probable is my guess.

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

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)

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 !!!

I believe the RAF called those in the British Army 'brown jobs' during WWII (probably laughably out-of-date slang, now) but how did helicopters become known as cabs in the British Army?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

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.

Another of those aviation mysteries? Why 'cab' and when?

Hey Geoffers
This one can (last week I couldn't spell ingineur, today I are one..........' - VFR

Has 'why aircraft taxi?' been done on pprune? I got a bit further with that than with 'cabs'

Savoia

Welcome...

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.

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!

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

Did the non-Bristow Tigers look something like this?


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

RE: Pic of the Scout in A30yoyo's post above: Heyyy, is that the same car from post 1298? That thing gets around!

Ah no FH1100 pilot that's a Morris Marina...an all British car ....
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

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

The paint scheme for Tiger Meets varied i.a.w. the fashion of the day, but yes.

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.

Yoyo, well done with AYMW .. another 'A' reg 206 added to our collection!

Will write-up something about her during the week.

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

Fascinating color vintage pathe film of London Waterloo to Heathrow airport air taxi service in S55s......

http://bps.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/...01157.mp4.m3u8

I'd not heard of Doman Helicopters, but this photo intrigued me: 1953 first flight and lifting 1800lbs on a 400hp Lycoming!

Its a flying Bug