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Tail-take-off, He's still a spotty schoolboy!!! A ginger one, aswell!
Davy07, unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332. Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course. |
Rosh i've sent you a pms:ok:
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unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332. Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course. I always love watching this Medic S-76 landing, god it sounds class:ooh: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKFF1bvlqNk |
what a bummer :):)
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The Evening Standard's Bristow Operated WS51 with it's unfortunate registration:
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...off/G-ANAL.jpg (photo: Augusta Westland) |
Reckon pilots flying that one were the butt of some jokes?:E
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Tail Take Off - the butt of all jokes she must have been, but a Widgeon, I think not. The Widgeon had a rather more pointy nose; G-ANAL appears to be a Dragonfly/S51.
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Hi All,
If anyone wants to check the type, current registration or past registrations of any helicopter, I can recommend the Rotorspot website. It has historic helicopter registers for almost all countries: http://www.geocities.com/rotorspot/historic.htm Regarding G-ANAL, it later became G-ANZL (wonder if it was reregistered because it was the butt of many jokes?!, and later written-off). Here's the entry from Rotorspot: G-ANAL Westland-Sikorsky 51 Dragonfly Mk.1A (construction number WA/H/90) G-ANAL,G-ANZL · · · · · » [w/o] Regards, David Eyre |
Thanks for the correction Plank Cap. The WS51 was a bit before my time. I got my info from here:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...regmark=G-ANAL where it is listed as type WS51, popular name Widgeon. Perhaps someone should tell the CAA! |
Ditching photos thread containing BHL & BCAL photos here.
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S76 Conversion. Norwich/WPB 2007
Some pics, taken this summer, while doing conversion training on the S76A+ followed by a C+ sim conversion.
Norwich. July 2007 West Palm Beach. August 2007 G-BIBG at Norwich http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...n/DSC00416.jpg G-BIBG http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...n/DSC00420.jpg Norwich Hangar http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...n/DSC00476.jpg Getting Set for some night deck landing practice. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...n/DSC01994.jpg S76C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...n/DSC00654.jpg S76 C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...n/DSC00618.jpg |
Ah, FSI in Palm Beach. The catered lunch on a Thursday, infinite cookies in the afternoons straight from the oven. Sod the sims and groundschool, I put on at least a stone in weight while I was there.
How's Malaysia anyway dude? H PS: not being picky, ok pedantic maybe, but that's a 92 sim in that there photo. 76 one's never looked that shiny, too many GOMERs knockin'em about.;) |
Bugger beat me too it........Yes that's the S92 sim!!!!!! Ah the cookies and popcorn........:}
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S92 sim really
S92 sim really? I'd have another look around the cockpit next time you go to work.:ok:
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You're right!! 92 sim it is?? :ouch: There are some 'eagle-eyes' out there!
They all looked the same to me from the outside! Maybe, I was too busy with the cookies to notice the differences. Rather than editing the post or removing the pic, if you look at the photo while shaking your head from side to side rapidly, and blinking simultaneously, it's a dead ringer for the 76C+ sim!!!!:ok: |
A few interesting pics here.
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As Chief Eng of G-APWN in 1978 I noticed that the paint scheme of the pax door didn't match the rest of the aircraft, around that time we lost a pax door over Reigate Hill, we had a few problems with loose doors and it wasn't until a student pilot mentioned that he had kicked the emergency door release with his right foot whilst trying to find the step that we realised we had found the problem. This would have occurred after the aircraft had been pre-flighted so the damaged safety wire would not have been found. G-APWN is now at Coventry.
I also had WN in Abu Dhabi in the early 70's, I did a test flight with Jerry Beecher RIP as we had had several computer faults, we took off and climbed to about 100 feet when the engine ran down Jerry, of course, immediately raised the collective but we were sinking fast, I was shouting go into manual (throttle) when suddenly the effect of raising the collective came in just before we were going to hit the ground rather hard and we fortunately landed softly. After looking at the actions taken in the past we changed the loom between the computer and the throttle actuator and solved all the previous intermittent problems. Jerry was a good friend, we hacked our way around the Abu Dhabi golf course for months. The greens were brown and the only grass was found in the bunkers. After playing the round, in the nineteenth hole, the Club supplied salt tablets with bottles of filtered water, we dutifully dissolved these tablets in a glass of water and drank them until we tasted the salt in the belief that we had replaced the salt that we had lost whilst playing in 120 degrees F. I have never found out if we were right? |
another face from the past - Gerry Sedgwick
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