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A beer with Moakes and Higgins......you had better take some aspirin with you for the next morning!

I can remember when they weren't allowed to work in the same hangar together, then it was the same operation, and I think eventually the same country!

Eeeeeeeee, those were the days! :ok:

Steve Higgins.
Have you heard the story when Steve was in the Falklands, he took a newcomer into Stanley and they had a drink in the hotel with two bars I forget the name. Steve then said we'll go to another bar so he took the Land Rover and drove all over Stanley and went in the other bar of the same hotel. The newcomer being completely lost couldn't work out why the same barman served them.

Just one beer with the two Steves??? You must be joking!!!:D
But isn't it sad that the once great Bristow Helicopters are reduced to sending their aircraft to another company??:confused: At least there are bloody good engineers working on them there! Even the 61's have been to British International.

I only got to page 5 and had to post a few. Somebody asked for images of G-TIGN in china.

Here she is just about to start for Kai Tak after being lifted from the freighter. (Kwai Chung container port)
Graham Lee and Rob Parry.:)

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Same crew taking RH to Kai Tak, this one arrived on a Ro-Ro ferry, I had to pump the hydraulics to keep brake pressure as she was pushed out of the ferry down the ramp. Hilarious few days.

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Winch training with our greenie ? Robinson on the left and Butch ? on the right, they thought sitting in the doorway would save their knees. Later during a particularly tight turn they were heard screaming over the intercom. :):)

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GN in Kai Tak on diversion following a casevac from a drilling rig amongst the islands south of HK. The interpreter is Jenny (Shi Jing) the co-pilot is I think Huang (guy in flying ovies was HKAF). He was really pissed off at going to HK and switched off the AP as I reached hover height over the deck. I landed back on and he demanded we go immediately to China and then possibly HK. I explained that if he didn't sit on his hands for the remainder of the trip I would hurl him over the side. The ex-pat oily had already lost an eye due to a gauge exploding in his face, when we got to Kai Tak there was an ambulance and a surgeon waiting, the guys second eye was saved. On return to Shen Zhen I was advised by throbbing Robin I would be removed by the Immigration police for interview. So off we trotted and I was deemed a nasty person, but if I didn't do it again I could stay. Yeah......whatever. :D:D


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GN at Guangzhou. 13.09.1984. L-R Rob Parry, Graham Lee, Ian Stewart Chief Engineer.

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GN at the dockside on arrival

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RH on the dockside at Whampoa looking towards Kowloon.

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During a typhoon evac I had to go under one of these, kicked us all over the sky.


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End of another fitful day in paradise. Not. Miri :ugh: some time in 1982.

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Can't remember the poor unfortunate who had this disaster. There was an almighty witch hunt, but nowhere did it say 'thou shalt strap thy puma down during a flat calm.' You can see the storm about 10-15 miles away, as per norm it came in rather quickly. Photos by a Shell employee, time period about 20 minutes.

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Bootneck, I believe it was PG on the F23? No-one laughed of course....

Sealand Helicopters AS332C, C-GSLH, off the Ivory Coast in the early 80s
 

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Carholme,

Nice photo, thanks.:ok:

Dec 1981, about to do the night shuttle from the 347 barge to TRD. About 0200, very limited lights on the new platform, virtually nothing on the new deck I did the first couple of rotations to get my eye in, then handed over to the left seat pilot who may be called Tiger to protect the guilty. He flew half the first approach then refused to fly any more. Said it was too dangerous :eek:. Well agreed it was, but there's a job to be done. I'm sure the pax could hear me roaring with laughter when he handed control over and said enough is enough. He was quite happy working the radios. :):)


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Lutong and fill it up. Mr Tang (?)

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Labuan from the South.

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This old lady ferried through Galeh Morghi in 1973.I don't know where she was going to.Maybe someone remembers?


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Malaysia. Nov 2007 - Feb 2008
 

Great to see the pics from Malaysia in the 70's/80's. Looks like a great time to have been out here.

Here's a few more recent Pics while operating on contract with MHS, from their Miri and Kerteh Bases.


Miri Sunrise. Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

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Picking-up and Refuelling at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

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Island off Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

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Air Asia at Kota Kinabalu

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Refuelling in Bintulu, Sarawak.

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Kota Kinabalu...again!

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Refuelling on Labuan island. Just off the Northwest coast of Malaysian Borneo, North of Brunei Bay.

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Island off Labuan.

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Flight line at Kerteh, Terrengganu. One Bristow machine (S76C++) and 3 of MHS's new S76C++.

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Flying an MHS machine. Refuelling on the Tapis D.

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Bristow occupied hangar at Kerteh.

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Hangar at Kereteh, just before the sun came up...(far too early!)

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Air Asia Rep, looking far better than me in the seat, Kota Kinabalu!

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Was she smiling because you told her you would show her your choppa....:eek::eek::eek:

LOL...

Very nice pics rosh, cheers for sharing:ok:

Click here:

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/

& type Bristow into the search box for interesting stuff from the Flight International archive.

Rosh old boy, Allow me to send you a private message. ITI

Impress To Inflate, less of the OLD boy (look who's talking!) and allow me to PM you back sir!

Hedski, I'd just shown her my choppa, and she's not smiling.....she's laughing out loud. :bored:

A few more from the first days of Bristow's setup in Shekou, or Shenzhen as it's now all called.

G-TIGN (Buckie) having her blades fitted after being craned onto the dockside. she had literally been covered in bubble wrap, slung on top of the containers and strapped down. Ian Stewart on top, John Cureton from Oz with hands on hips, Chief Eng from Oz with arms in air as Ian Robinson looks on in bewilderment, he was the greenie. :)

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L-R Ian Stewart, John Murray behind the blade, John Cureton and Ian Robinson.

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A few hours later she was flown into Kai Tak, handed over to HAECO for cleaning and access to servicing platforms. 12th Sept 1984.

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The next day, 13th Sept '84 we flew from Kai Tak to Guangzhou (Canton) then returned to Shenzhen. At Guangzhou we were given a Navigator who would 'help' us return to Shenzhen, which we had flown past on the way up the Pearl River. This poor lad was totally bemused by our RNAV and HSIs, he couldn't or wouldn't use the VHF so he had problems as the HF didn't work properly. En-route to Guangzhou I called them at about 30 miles on their VHF frequency. You could hear a button keyed, then silence. Eventually they managed to find the air traffic controller that spoke English. He came on out of breath and obviously slightly nervous.

Finals to Guangzhou, a poor image, but believe me they kept slotting fixed wings in front of us all the way down the ILS. :eek:

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Guangzhou Terminal.

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The huge apron area at Guangzhou, they made us park miles well away from the terminal.

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Finally we got to Shenzhen, to be met by Admiral Zhou the Airport Manager and Robin Hunt.

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Once we had disappeared Admiral Zhou led out an entourage of the good and great to have a look at the new machines.


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Just to show how things were all those years ago. This was built with bamboo scaffolding, 50 storeys plus a revolving restaurant up top.

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Shekou, the Bank Of China building, and the town just about to be built.


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G-Berh having her blades fitted at Whampoa dock before her trip of 5 minutes to Kai Tak.

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VH-WOA on the Rankin, NW ustralia. One of th estarter motors wouldn't, so we pushed her over to the side of the deck, had some caffeine while marek and Alan Rose brought a greeny and the bit to us. What a nice man.

L-R Alan Rose, Mick Omedei, John Ward, Marek Glinski in the cockpit.

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WOA again this time on an island called Legendre, as we carried out a heli pad recce for emergency use.
John Ward in cockpit, Marek as passenger.


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I was tasked to fly to the Rankin one fine Saturday. Marek briefed me that he would be out in his boat with a two way VHF radio which would be handy for coordinating rescues. He told me he would call when we were due out of Karratha.

So off we went, and shortly heard our callsign, to which Alan Rose responded.
Marek then asked, "Where are you?"
I grabbed Alan's hand away from the PTT and pressed my own, "I'm in the front!" :):):):):)

Marek took a few minutes to get any sense out of us, I was convulsed, how long do you wait for ATC to ask that? :D:D:D

China, early days in Shenzhen. Two of the Tiger pilots. Huang and Wang? Certainly their oriental style of intimacy fell flat on Ian Robinson the greeny. :):)


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Ma in one of the two pumas. (G-BERH or G-BFKZ)

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His best friend :ok:

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EP-HAM
 

I flew that gracefull old thing in 1974. Ron Cann was the station boss. I flew it out to the GANAVAE one night in a shamal ... (medical emergency) ran out of fuel just after landing on the pad back in Bushehr. The damn wind shifted ... scary!

More from Shenzhen.

The flight line, two Pumas and a Tiger. The runway consisted of 200m of concrete, at either end was a rubbleway. :)

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The Chinese Greeny could really get in amongst it.

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KZ receiving attention. Most of the time it was difficult to know who was an 'experienced' engineer and who was the water carrier. Everybody was determined to help in some small way. :)

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Mayne Bristow (Australia) Greeny and assistant.

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G - TIGN being prepared for a flight.

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The control tower and office block, plus departure lounge. The radar sterilised all of us. One day ATC were adamant I could not depart as there were heavy thunderstorms around. He only relented when taken to the Tiger and shown our airborne radar. "Oooooooooh!" :ok:

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Any activity, no matter how mundane attracted a crowd of Goofers. G-TIGN about to go filming. (Robin Hunt in life jacket.)

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Same trip

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Wonderful pose from our interpreter. No matter how hard we tried, once we were out of the cockpit it was almost impossible to prevent the Chinese pilots from shouting at Guangzhou on the HF.


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Lovely bloke, but very keen on the camera. :)


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Three of the engineers. Really nice guys who tried their hardest despite the language barriers. The interpreters always wanted to work with the aircrew, so the engineers got by with hand signals. Most of them were sent to France and Aberdeen to do full courses.

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The other end of the flight line, PHI's 214s and two of the Navy Dauphins.
One morning a PHI pilot had rolled back the throttles and was completing his paperwork, imagine it's the nearest 214. The Chinese Co-pilot received an instruction to move the aircraft to another spot, to the right of the other 214 which was also turning and burning. The interpreter had gone with the passengers, so the co-pilot intimated by hand signals what was required. The American Capt said OK and went back to his paperwork for a second. Meanwhile the Co had wound up both throttles, anticipating a ground taxi manoeuvre the Capt looked up, just in time to see the other 214 slide beneath his aircraft. :eek: He managed to grab everything and prevent a disaster. During the debrief the Co was unable to understand how dangerous his actions had been.

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Shekou during the construction phase; looking towards the ferry terminal. One evening I was sitting having a beer when a carpenter rode past on his bike. A tea leaf grabbed the saw from the chippies bag and ran for it, onto the football pitch, right of photo. The carpenter called for help and eventually the thief was being chased by a dozen irate Chinese in a scene reminiscent of Peter Sellers best films. Eventually the thief was caught and beaten, the saw was retrieved. The carpenter returned triumphantly to his bike to discover the rest of his tools had disappeared. :{

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British Airways were operating from Macao, across the other side of the Pearl River. They came under pressure to allow two Chinese pilots to fly their S61 to a rig, and allowed it to happen. Their crew returned to Shenzhen one day, the ex-pats got off and vowed never to fly with them again. Their views were unsurprising, the crew had taxied in with huge grins, heaved on the brakes and glibly pulled back both throttles simultaneously. Silly boy hadn't applied the tail wheel lock. The aircraft turned about 25-30*. They hadn't the sense to wind it up again and roll forward. When all was quiet they descended the stairs and gathered all the Chinese engineers, who were required to push the tail boom to get the tail wheel straight. :eek:
30 minutes later the saga continued. They managed to get the Chinese passengers to board, the ex-pats were refusing to, and I commiserated with them. The aircraft taxied out to the very short runway, our hero took off and in a show of bravado carried out a 360* turn, followed by a rapidly accelerating second and a third, which was even faster. By this time I was below the window ledge. He managed to stagger it into the air, slewed at a dreadful angle.

That was the nail in his coffin. A phone call to 'Nigel' in Macao was made immediately, detailing what had happened. The shaken ex-pats explained that numb nuts had commenced his rig approach at about 15 miles, by which point he was at 150'. Little yellow ears were reddened in Macao. :)

Lgw 1977
 

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More ex BCAL prior to Bristow Aquisition.
 

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There have been a few BCAL & BEAS photos posted. Anyone got anymore?

What about the other companies that were swallowed up but are part of what makes BHL what it is today?

TTO,

The thread title says it all: Bristow Photos :rolleyes:

Thanks: a photo without a title/narrative doesn't make that point :ok: I'll reinstate it, maybe Tto can edit it for the world at large ;)

Senior pilot

Way back in post 105 I posted a BEAS picture & said:

It was greeted with enthusiasm by a number of Bristow people who had joined via other companies who were absorbred by BHL & a number of further BEAS & BCAL pictures were subsequently included.

Yes I know. It is the title I gave it when I started the thread. Perhaps now it has developed it should be changed to Bristow (& associated companies) photos?

Perhaps it might actually be OLOG Photos as Bristow was purchased by OLOG and was itself a subsidiary company for quite a while before adopting the BHL tradename.









Just stirring the pot a bit!;)

More Stirring of the Pot
 

Ok SASless,
As Olog is no longer in the picture we could call it the Bristow Group Photos. With all due respect to our Bristow peers of course.
By the way old Bristow boys anyone remember Jack Brannon??? Best Snake Oil salesman in the biz.
Now I really feel old :mad:

I can't get over how small and the lack of a rotor head for those massive blades on BKFN.

So what is it doing now since its retirement? Always loved hearing it pass at ABZ, gave you a little bit of a lift on a drerry morning.

TiP

How many of you remember Ozzie? Bill Hade's monkey in Miri; he would wait until visitors had gone inside then shred their windscreen wipers. As in this photo I'd put him on my shoulders, he'd grab some hair then off we'd go on my bike for a tour. A wonderful character, with some decidedly nasty habits, similar to the monkey. ;);)

Another trick was to fill a bucket with water then hook it up in his tree, he'd lie down in it and rest his head on the edge, quite the celebrity.


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Old names...."Tommy Sword Stick, Jack Trigg, Jack Moss, Marcel Avon...characters all!"

Jack Brannon - Yes Inmate I remember Jack, he came to Singapore/Indonesia when that op first started up in 1968, also Jack Trigg, fresh from the RAF, John Odlin, the late Barry Newman, I remember quite a long list of well known names from those days!

OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here - its been over 30 years - but wasn't Jack in charge of recruiting pilots in the 70's? Seems I remember a story that he was busted in Alabama or some place and was greeted upon his return to Redhill with his picture on an American style wanted poster.

George Puddy took over from Jack Brannon as I remember it....and George was certainly a gentleman in all regards. Ken Smith had pilot assignments, Puddy recruiting and Pilot Admin. Thas being '75 or so. Trigg filled as needed in the office.

George Puddy, thank you for the nudge, had pilot admin for many years until about the late 80's. He would send gentle reminders about the lack of a passport photo in my personal file for example. Hence the photo above with Ozzie, he then replied with a poem, asking if he might just possibly have a passport photo; his last line, and it didn't scan.....

"A photo, dammit, a photo"

As SASless says, a gentleman of the old school. ;)

Another 214ST this time after the Bristow take over:
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Another one of G-BCMC. It would seem that this one is not at all camera shy.

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I'm still waiting for a couple of contacts to let me have some 212 pictures from Nigeria & another some of the Falklands, North Sea, Redhill FTS & some late BEAS stuff as well. In the mean time there must be more out there.

Does anyone remember G-BBHM (re-registered 8Q-HUM) being leased to Hummingbird in the Maldives. Mike Clark & Griff Jones ferried it out there & because Hummingbird were short of crews they had to stay out there for a couple of weeks to help out. Tough job but somebody has to do it. As well as a couple of weeks in the sun Griff ended up with a wife & family out of the trip.

Griff went back a year later to do the return ferry flight with Graham Lee (he knew the way!)

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Sumburgh early eighties.

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Some where near Inverness:
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