World Wide Helicopters

[carholme]

That would be Ken Metcalfe. Forever the centre of attention in a social setting. Haven't heard anything about him since I left Egypt.
Thank you kindly for responding.

Gerry

[Savoia]

Sillohed wrote:
In December of 1969 I was flying a DC-3 for Phillips Petroleum ..

Perchance, did it look anything like this:


Phillips Petroleum Douglas DC3-C47 N59534

[sillohed]

N219F

The one I was flying was N219F. When I last saw her she was sitting in the Egyptian desert on 15 October 1969 waiting for an engine change.

[Savoia]

Geosource Douglas DC3-C47 N219F, Malta, 1978

[sillohed]

Ken Metcalfe

Here is a picture of Ken Metcalfe from the World Wide Ameland project in 1963. That's him in the dark sweater and light pants.

[carholme]

Many thanks for the effort sillohed! That is him. I worked at Ras Shukhier in the early '70s when he was there.

Regards

Gerry

[sillohed]

Thanks

Thanks Gerry,
I was flying a DC-3 for Phillips out of Alexandria in the late 60's - early 70's so we weren't far apart.

I think there is a picture of the old beast that I was flying a big further up in this thread.

On my last day with the company I had an engine failure out in the Qattara Depression and had to abandon the plane to the engineer and a new pilot. I suppose they weren't too pleased with me.

[sillohed]

Ameland, NL 1963

The World Wide crew in Nes, Ameland, NL in summer 1963.

[JW Hasselman]

World Wide Crew

I've followed this thread with intrest, since my father Frits Hasselman belonged to World Wide, later Abu Dhabi Helicopters. Unfortunately he passed away 11 october 2011....
As a small boy and later in life I've met some of his colleagues, and know some others by name.
He has left quite some photo's which includes the one in Nes.
My mother recalled a number of the people, Rudi Cortenbach (7th from left),
John Wood (on his left), Dick te Groen and Sjors Strolenberg (end of topline), Ted van Capelle (squatting-bottom row left) Dennis Gilman (one but last squatting).
Would you know any of the others?
If you are interested I could post some of the photo's of Libya.

Regards

Jan Wim

[sillohed]

Names, names, names

Jan,
Thank you for contacting me. As you can see I have had little contact from anyone because we are all much older now and many have passed away. Your fathers name is so familiar to me but I can't quite recall his face or where I knew him.
Here is what I recall regarding the names in the picture....I hope it is accurate.

Left: Not sure
Second Left: Not sure
Third Left Standing Behind: Ken Metcalfe, Helicopter Engineer
Fourth Left: Not Sure
Fifth Left: Not Sure
Sixth Left Standing: Not Sure
Seated by Ball With Hat: My Friend Ted Von Capelle
Seated to Ted's Left: Myself, Ed Stewart
Behind me and to my Right: My friend John Wood
To My Left Squatting: Peit Alofs, Flight Crew (Blasting)
Behind Peit, Standing: Hank Hendry, Helicopter Engineer
Squatting to Peits left: Jan Fens, Flight Crew (Blasting)
Behind Jan, Standing: Harry Dreissen, Project Manager Shell NL
Squatting to Jan's Left: Not Sure
Standing Behind Him: My friend George (sp) Strolenberg

[sillohed]

More Nes Crew

Here is a another photo of the Ameland crew. More photos at Photo and image hosting, free photo galleries, photo editing

Left: Not Sure
Second Left: Tony Biddle, Engineer
Third Left: Hank Hendry, Chief Engineer
Fourth Left: Ken Metcalfe, Engineer
Fifth Left: Can't Recall, Engineer
Last: Bob Bishop, Engineer

[sillohed]

Pictures, Please!

Jan,
Any pictures you care to share will be much appreciated. As you can tell, I posted most of my pictures of Ameland onto "Photobucket.com" so if you have several you could use a site like that.

Many thanks, and look forward to anything you care to share. My personal email is [email protected] if you would like to contact me directly.

I presume you are in Holland.....I still live in the US but in 2000 I took my grandson on a trip which included Ameland. I didn't see much change. The hotel still run by the same family (The Hofkers), the town much the same. The only difference was the sight of the oil rigs off the North shore (which of course we were partly responsible) but now they don't look so good.

Once again......my appreciation.

[Nigel Osborn]

Hank Hendry became chief engineer of Helicopter Utilities in Sydney & Frank 'the merciless ming' Minjoy, an excellent pilot, became the general manager. Good days in the 60s!

[JW Hasselman]

Pictures

Thanks Ed,

Never expected such a quick reply, many thanks!
I'll look into the link you've sent for the foto's, as on this forum I seem to have the same problem as Chris (not being allowed to add attachements).

Anyway, we'll find a way to get those pics to you.


Regards,

Jan Wim

[JW Hasselman]

Photobucket

Made an account at Photobucket jhasselman2's Library | Photobucket and uploaded some pics.
Hopes this works?

Regards,

Jan Wim

[JW Hasselman]

engineers

I remember Tony Biddle, who lived a few streets away , from us in Tripoly.
His son Christopher was a vriend of mine.
Mike Bishop lived just beond the two piaster beach.

[sillohed]

Bishop Biddle

Jan, I visited your photobucket site and found it very interesting. Some of the photos are extremely familiar but then everyone was taking so many pictures on the North Sea job that many were probably the same. I never knew Bishop and Biddle came to Libya. I had probably left for some other location by that time perhaps. Were you there when the king was de-throned? I think some of my pictures in Benghazi were taken when rioters were burning cars in the street below the company apartment. Over the years I ran into Ken Metcalfe (one of the other engineers in the photos) in numerous places around the world. I saw him last in Cairo when he was working with Bristow. Thanks for the photos and information. It would be nice if we could find a couple of the other guys but I have searched for most of them by name and came up with nothing.

[JW Hasselman]

De-throning

What I know is that the World Wide Helicopter contact was terminated shortly after the 6 day war between Egypt and Israel. The situation deteriorated and all Westerners had to leave the country. This was in 1967. We (our family) had gone back to Holland just before it all started to escalate. My father however was was held prison for 4 days when he went back to Tripoli, together with a group of non-Libyans. Luckily they were all put on a plane for Europe. During these days the American Air Base Wheeles was surrounded and Italian and Jewish shops set a-light. But the king was still in power, although the people where turing against the West and against him.
Fortunately, just being a boy, it all passed me by. What did I know?
So only fond memories remain of my stay in Libya.

[sillohed]

Oh What a Lovely War

The riots in Benghazi in 64 were by students at the university and were just the prelude to deposing the king. The British airbase near Benghazi kept things in control until the final collapse in 67 I suppose. Completely unrelated to World Wide, I was flying a DC-3 for Philips petroleum in Alexandria in 69 when yet another fracus with Israel stirred up problems and we had to shut down operations for a while. Did you ever make it to Leptis Magna or over to Cyrene when you were in Libya? Wonderful Roman and Greek ruins. I had pictures but haven't been able to find them.

[JW Hasselman]

Leptis Magna

We visited Leptis Magna a few times, and also went to Sebrata (which was closer to where we lived). I don't recall Cyrene. My father always took a keen interest in these places and also made photo's. From what I remember the sights where quite spectecular!
I might find some pics for you.