...and NAAB, come on Bobby, you must have flown that one too!

They were both on lease from EC.

Good to see you today, by the way. Will make it a longer visit next time.

More Bond Bo105 photos
 

Just a few of my photos of G-NAAA.

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l...01/Mn0885a.jpg

North West Air Ambulance taking off, after attending very serious RTA near Rochdale. November 2000.

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l...01/Mn0996b.jpg

NWAA near Rawtenstall, December 2000

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l...AAArrows02.jpg

NWAA at Blackpool Airport with some 'friends'. Summer 2000

Somebody out there has a photo of the Ninian (I think) Bo105 being torn apart by an unexpected storm, 120-140kts rings a bell.

TeeS

Ninian January 1992
 

TeeS,

No doubt you are thinking of the time G-BAMF was caught on Ninian North overnight with the un-forecast 130+ kts! One blade snapped off completely with another broken and dangling. I flew G-AZTI up to through Unst and Sullom Voe on 3 Jan to replace it. The islands had also taken a beating, with the RAF 'golf balls' of Saxa Vord being, quite literally, blown away. Also, the 'famous' Hagdale Lodge was ripped to bits, as was a portacabin at the side of the runway at Unst International.

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone took any photos. Unless Davy Gow took some, as he was the engineer on at the time. But it will live in the memory for a long time!!!

bondu

Ninian January 1992
 

Yes I remember that ! how could one forget!, you should have seen Micky Pages face when I took him up to the Heli-deck to explain why the shuttle had to be cancelled !! LOL.
There were pics taken, all a bit shakey for obvious reasons, they were handed over to Tony Cox for the insurance company!
Any way , we got the old girl going again after fitting new head and blades/A- frames, alighnment checks etc etc, then we flew her back to Longside!:

Hi Bondu, so thats what davey meant by it being the best place he ever experienced a BJ, and I never realised he was talking weather! LOL

Discuss............

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...hTC3Bucket.jpg

I've got a million of 'em

I am very interested in the identity of that bolkow, as far as I am aware Irish Helicopters have been the only operators to have had that type of radome fitted to a bo105?

It was a temporary fit on (I think) G-AZTI for a contract putting Pilots on to tankers approaching Sullom Voe. The screen was on a removable pedestal fitted in front of the co-pilot's seat.
The underslung load is a TC3 pollution dispersal bucket.
Happy days

Interesting, I had never seen one on any other bo105D apart from the aforementioned.

Radome
 

The aircraft in the picture is actually G-BAMF , taken by myself as I was doing the marshaling for the TC3 bucket training. MF spent most of her days after Ninian ,up at Sullom- Voe. she was actually the second aircraft to be fitted with the Radar mod , the first one I belive was G-AZTI but she was swopped with MF for operational reasons, very early on in the contract.

G-AZTI..
 

I have literally hover taxied that bitch into City hospital Truro on to a postage stamp of a helipad with a critical on board in typical Cornish weather.. :eek:

Over to you Geoffers...:ok:

Hi Davey, what interested me about the radome on the nose was that all three Irish Helicopters bolkows had them, EI-AWB = G-AZOM,
EI-BDI and in the earlier days of her time with that company EI-BLD. Until I saw these pics I was never aware opf any other BO105d having had that fitting.

How about this one then.................

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Radar fit.
 

If memory serves, Bond had 2 sets of radar mounts for the radar, so that the kit could be swapped quickly during aircraft swaps.
One set was on 'MF' and the other was on 'FD'. The kit on 'FD' may have gone with it to South Africa.

Does anyone know what 'FD' is doing now?

what was FD's full registration number, let me know and I can find out.

BTW, what is the identity of the bolkow ojn the navy boat above? The door crast suggests Trinity House or Northern Lighthouse Board, but I cant see much when I enlarge the pic

It registration looks like G-DCCH which was a Devon Air Ambulance before being written off in 2001.

BB: It's not the one which which slid of the boat by any chance?

The boat that rocked..... and off went the Bolkow G-THLS. :{

Foxy Dog
 

FD's reg was/is G-BAFD