GAVII at the weekend
 

Here's a photo of Ex-Bristows Trainer GAVII, being de-IFR'd at PDG Kintore, prior to being shipped to Austrailia

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o...ore20Nov09.jpg

How sad.:{ IMHO

Telford IMPS 2009
 

Hi Guys n Gals,

I saw this beauty at the recent show at Telford.

She sure is fine.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...g/IMG_5745.jpg

Regards

Reggie

G-ATCA.

Shame the main blades are fitted the wrong way around.

Have another look, theyre not all on in the same direction!!

Blades the wrong way round???? I could tell you a story about that but not wishing to embarrass several senior LAEs I will desist!:D:D
3D

Port harcourt, mid seventies, Tony Hill checking his take off time.

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1259067292

Bristow PH
 

A good after flight clean uphttp://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1259167435

I don't see you there Dave!

Bristow PH
 

Here I am, with Terry White, compressor washing. Note the seveties sideburns.http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1259254450

Hi Guys,

I hadn't even noticed the blades!

Regards

Reggie

Bristow Port harcourt
 

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1259686421Greasing in the tropical twilight

Recent Tiger (ex G-PUMI) ditching in Nigeria photo from here:
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/398...g-nigeria.html

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/9310/pumag.jpg

more here:
Norske skip reddet 18 etter helikopterstyrt| TV 2 Nyhetene

bristow port harcourt
 

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1261674977WS55/3 accelerating into the blue

Lurching more than speeding I think Dave.

Yves Leroy
 

I think you might be talking about my father Yves Le roi who worked for Okanagan Helicopters back in the 1970s and may have assisted Bristow from time to time. I will have to talk to him about it.

He is now retired and still in good health at the aged of 74

I also work in the Helicopter Industry for Vector Aerospace here on the west coast of Canada

His daughter

Katell

I knew your parents in Kuala Trenganu Malaysia in the early 80's. They had a beautiful house right on the beach. I'm glad to read that he is still in good health. Pass my regards.
Doug Palermo

Yves Leroy
 

Hello Katell,

It's great to have a member of the fair sex reading PPrune. Your phrase regarding your father "...who worked for Okanagan Helicopters back in the 1970s and may have assisted Bristow from time to time" suggests we may be talking about two different people having a similar name. The Yves Leroy I worked with in West Sumatra back in the early seventies was ex-French Army and flew early model Sikorsky S-55's in North Africa. I met him again in Tehran in the mid- to late-seventies, after that I heard he was flying from Aberdeen. All of this time he was with Bristow, I don't recall any Okanagan connection.

If indeed we're talking about the same person, then am I correct in remembering your mother's name is François (correct spelling?) and when your father was working in West Sumatra you all lived in a big house in Penang next to the Swimming Club and your mother, who I remember as speaking better English than your father, was always saying that she couldn't keep the children, including you, out of the swimming pool. If this is the case then we met when I passed through Penang on a crew-change. My best regards to all.

Yves Le Roy
 

Surely there can only be one Yves Le Roy. I had the privilege of working with him in Aberdeen and Trengannu in the 70`s and 80`s. He had a fund of stories about working for Bristow in the very early days flying Bell 47`s in Bolivia on seismic survey, having to make his own maps on the way out with pax so he could find his way back after dropping off. Sadly he could not be convinced to commit his experiences to paper, maybe he will have second thoughts. He also had a stunning record of his travels on cine film which I am sure would be a winner if he could link them together.
We all enjoyed working with him, with his endearing thickly accented English. My two year old son appeared before us one day after a day `on the island` with Yves and Francois and announced, " Eeef you do not like eet, I put eet back in my trousers!" No guesses who had been giving him elocution lessons. Hope to see you again soon Yves.

There may be two people with the same name.

The Yves le Roi (French engineer) that I knew was at Bow helicopters in the late '60s. Bow had been formed from what was Bullock Helicopters which the United Nations of the helicopter business in Canada at the time. We had pilots and engineers from all over the world and a great crowd they were.

A connection with Bristow Helicopters at that time was when a crew came over from Redhill to film and discuss our ATCO trailer slinging operations in the High Arctic.

Yves was primarily involved in the maintenance of the Alouette 11s which Bow had at the time but moved on to the 204/5s.

I think it was 1969 that several of us from Bow had moved over to Okanagan Helicopters and Yves made the move shortly after that and went on to run their engine shop. I went to Bristow in the early '70s and lost track of him.

The young lady posting here does sound like she is the daughter of this Yves.
If she is reading this, maybe she could tell her Dad that I was talking to Russ Shand over the holidays and he remembers him well.

Regards

carholme