beryl field
 

that is Hughie Sutherland on the beryl in 1987, also on the op was Graham Conway, Kevin furlong, Eric Greensmith, Peter Morgan , Chippy Stokes and Then JJ munro took over from Graham after six months

Return of G-AODA from Trinidad 1975 on the 'Linguist'
 

To clarify, the ship that carried G-AODA (Steve Hogarth's 'The Duchess') from Trinidad to UK in 1975 was built in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1960-69 by Lindholmens & owned by the Harrisson Line, entered onto the IMO register as 6614516 as the Linguist. It plied internationally for many years, making many visits to the Manchester Shipping Canal (MSC). In 1980, whilst at the MSC, its name was changed to Bangplee. Changed again to 'Unipol' in 1981 and in that same year met its fate, capsizing and breaking up in severe weather conditions at Chandler, Canada. Happy Xmas everyone.

Coffee time
 

See you still don't let Jan wash the mugs!!

SNS- Inde 23A - 1980
 

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Not sure if this photo will upload, long time since I tried to do it.

It is of Wessex G-ASWI landing on the 23A platform, southern North sea in 1980. I was a regular passenger as I was then part of the Amoco management team during the compression platform installation.

Unfortunately WI was lost with all on board in 1981

(Appear to have failed miserably! Will try again later)

Where are they now?
 

I flew with G-AODA during the nineteen eighties missile development trials mentioned in the recollections of Steve Hogarth and am currently scribing my memories of 42 years in the defence industry. I am having trouble tying down specific dates of our trials in the UK, Germany and France and having located The Duchess at the Helicopter Museum had hoped that they would have a copy of the F700. Sadly this was not the case so my next line of attack is to try to track down the pilots for these trials, Chippy Stokes and Martin Ford, in the hope that they might have the answers in their flight logbooks.
Does anybody out there have any idea where Chippy and Martin are these days and perhaps know how I might be able to find them?
Fingers crossed.

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G-AODA Lee-On-Solent May/June 1988 (Picture by Nessboy)

Previous photos I have seen of this installation show a more conventional ball heli tele style turret. Can someone explain this cylindrical version and how it worked?

I think that somebody slackens off the piece of string and it rotates 90 degrees otherwise it would drag along the ground.

AW609
 

I attended Heli Expo last month and saw the 609 test prototype in Bristow and Eastern Airways colors to signify the exclusive agreement signed between AW and Bristow in commercial tilt rotor development.

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Cheers

That looks like Ken Humphreys mantling that Whirlwind?

Ken Humphreys
 

IIRC Ken was the engineer and Stan Richie the pilot.

I don't think Compo (Ken) ever looked that young. :)

TU134
 

Married and in Spain ?? ( But we have been to Spain many times over the last 15 yrs)

Regards & thanks for the memories

23/04/15

Garth ? so soon ? RIP

There's a collection of photos gradually building up to mark the 60th anniversary of the company on the Bristow Facebook page for those who have a Facebook account.

https://m.facebook.com/4678301366364...13827135370045

Atyrau 1998
 

Great pics and for me memories however we were on 8 & 4 not 6 & 4
XV was not in the KCS Hanger in june 98 I did the lease deal late in 98
under threat from Grant as winter was approaching fast (-35) the hanger
chosen by Bristow had an earth floor and was not good for jacking up 212
Garth ( RIP) did the ferry on both XV & ER(99) with his knowledge !!!? of Russian ( I still recall "helping" Ringo with his PC return for XV ferry!!)
We in fact stayed in "Chagala" Hotel ( Sea Gull in Kazakh) for the first few months and then some pretty poor local aparts ( got better thereafter)
Had Redhill listened to Dallas ( re daily rates ) then we could all have stayed
in Hotel with OKIOC ( but then maybe with less fun) Dallas had an other good plan for accommodation ( similar to BHL and others in Iran etc) but was told by
K,G-P that " we dont buy property !!! ( Shetlands ???) So with help of Natash
I bought 2 aparts in Atyrau ASAP and have averaged 10% the last 14 years

You have a wonderfull site which I only came apon throu Andrew in KL this year
many happy memories from the pics. One day I might even forget / Forgive
the town in Texas near to Fort Worth .
RGDS

Glad to hear that you and Natasha01 are still around
Dallas is one of the best people I've worked with in 38 years with Bristow
Take care

contact chipy
 

Hi

As your post is new ,I reply ,Paul Glid´told me around 2000 that Chipy
had emigrated to NZ ( probably up some mountain ) As he will be in receipt
of BHL pension try through
AON
B.S.P.S
PO Box 196
Huddersfield
HD8 1EG

RGDS

HAM
 

Yes indeed EP-HAM did end up washed up on the beach south of Busher ( or at least what was left of the cabin) I flew over it's remains most days in a 205 on floats ,out of Busher en-route Scan Bay jack-up and 2 R&B rigs ( circa 1977/8)

Dick Chin I think was flying it at the time

I was with Schriener then ( HAS)

I was in EP-HAM when it had its Tail Rotor drive failure just coming into land on the helipad at Zagross. Bounced twice and turned 270 degrees but remained upright before the rotors were shut down!!:eek: