I was there 1971 with a Bell 204 and an Alouette 3.
Tarfiya was the place where the C47 used to land on two strips of tarmac with just sand between and a turning circle at the end. It was a real test of character when they crew changed with a nose wheel aircraft!

Tip cap,

Can't believe you were ever 21!!

Hope you are enjoying retirement, I'm stilling waiting for the commision from our little chat in denhelder a few years back.. ;)

Cheers


T4

Morocco 1969
 

No comment!!!! :\

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Makes a change from Morocco. Lee-on-Solent 1988. 30th July 1988. Ops 039/88. My first hi-line casualty from a yacht. Winch Op was Chris Bond

John

G-TIGD on an Aerospatiale Brochure
 

Bristow Tiger Promotional Brochure circa 1982
 

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OK, Who Remembers the Tiger Toilet...
and who ever was daring enough to use it !!!:eek:

Toilet....I thought that was why they were called "Poopy Suits"!

I remember the Tiger Toilet, they didn't last long. I never used it though. It was always a sit down or an on the knees job because the cabin was / is so low that one was always stooped over and the average person couldn't get the "old fella" close enough.

I believe they were doomed after the first few events of, errr, "gotta get rid of last night's curry and can't wait any longer" :ooh:

Anyone remember the plan for ventilated immersion suits?

Ventilated Immersion Suits
 

Yes I remember that trial. Plug airflow in, cool the body and expel the air through valves in the shoulder. Froze everything below waist and inflated like a michelin man below cos the seatbelt restricted the airflow.

Remember the inflatable seat lumber supports too?

John

AEB
 

In 1993, Alan Bristow had a yacht built in Bremerhaven. The yard took such a long time to complete it, the Old Man had the yacht motor sailed to Camper-Nicholsons Yard in Portsmouth to be finished. To check on its progress, he and Heather flew his King Air into Lee-on-Solent whilst his chauffeur drove his RR down to the gates to take him to C-N Yard. As a treat, he invited Rob Flexman and I onboard for its sea trials before it sailed to the Caribbean. A wonderful yacht and handled well. Apparently the Old Man designed his steering gear himself. No hydraulics there!! Just a couple of pics from that day

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John

Tiger Toilet & Vented Immersion Suits
 

Remember both well.

Do not know of a crew member who used the toilet but certainly had 1 or 2 passengers use it. Did not last long as the clients realised it was replacing some useful payload (some 40 - 50 lbs I think), and its removal then allowed us to get 19 pax to the NW Hutton with the fresh milk & newspapers on their 1st morning flight. Sadly both the toilet, 19 pax in the back of a Tiger, and the NW Hutton are all just great memories now!

I was one of the crews taking part in the vented immersion suit trial. As John has already posted you ended up as a Michelin man with 2 very full inflated legs (air went in through a garden hose type connector just above the waist), and as well as the 2 shoulder release valves you had wrist cuffs which were left open with a pull cord and velcro tie should you ever ditch. However their worst design flaw was the material used as we had to swim around Stonehaven harbour during the trial, and my suit completely flooded shortly after jumping in.

Tiger Toilet
 

Whilst looking over one of the first Tigers about to leave Redhill for Aberdeen via North Denes, Mr Bristow was heard to remark about the toilet," This is no bloody good, if you bend back so as not to bump your head you can`t see the bog and if you bend forward you can`t bloody reach. They won`t last!"

On returning from one of the early proving flights with a blogged bog ( insufficient thought had been given to the provision of suitable paper, so the P & J had been rushed into action) it was found that no arrangements had been made for the emptying of said vessel. The Rampies wanted extra pay to do it and the copilot refused point blank. Nice idea but doomed to failure.

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An incident report written by Mike Clarke (S61N Chief Pilot). It was hung on the crew room wall for quite some time. Some people may remember it.

XA

Classic Mike Clark. Always a joy to work with him!

G-TIGD Aerospatiale Promotional Brochure
 

Ah.... G-TIGD - whatever became of her?

See http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources...4%20G-TIGD.pdf

wasn't Robbie MacGregor flying it at the time?

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Treasure Finder


Pics from Kev Pickering.


During the late seventies and early eighties the North Sea oil fields were probably at their most active and this led Shell to instigate a Bell 212 shuttle service to serve the Brent oil field installations and surrounding rigs.
The Treasure Finder was to be found in the East Shetland basin and consisted of a fairly large hangar, with a heli-deck on either side, built as part of an accommodation platform and attached to a production platform typically the "Brent B"

The hangar had an average compliment of five Bell 212's fitted with a vast array of avionics and safety equipment to enable such tasks as search and rescue.The work rota was 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off.

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Bristow characters – well known to many of you!

Via Kev Pickering so don’t blame me if your name is spelt rong.
I haven’t put the names in correct order – that would be too easy!

First pic: Andy Lawson, Angus McLeod, Alister Hutcheon, Andy Hall, Kev Pickering, Bob Goddard and Barney Swinton-Bland.

Second pic: Eric Scard, Bob Oades, KP, Redhill boys and girls, Martin and Jan Bull, Dick Snook, Stacey Shilling, Martin Boardley.

Third pic: A selection of Nigerian wildlife at a couple of favourite watering holes. Kev doesn’t give names for a lot of these but I can remember a few having spent 2 years in Warri.

Tom Ridgers, Bill Denman, Phil Kitwood, Martin and Jan Bull, Pete Heard and ?, Jack and Brenda Feeley, Keith Roberts, Mike Moran, Nigel “Chalkie” White, Trevor Jones, Bejam Borbor (I think – Iranian pilot), Simon Smith? Pilot.


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Just a good pic!

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