Sadly, Bryan Burr was killed in an accident back in October last year. Bryan ran the Aerologging side of the business, and I had some great adventures with him and some of the others in the Company. I always liked Bryan and his Father, Jim, and got on very well with both of them - some amazing experiences up in Alaska.
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Rocky Mountain Helicopters early 80's
I was with company out of Provo then Rialto as mechanic. I think I worked full time for four years starting on the 47-soloy, and G3b. We laid fence posts across miles of Nevada cattle range land for BLM. Then had sharp shooters pick off wild wolfs by the hundreds to let cattle barrons be happy. My Bell 47's were a bloody mess. It was a sad use of my machines. Then a few years of laying Jug lines and explosives for seismic testing. Next I was called on the shortwave radio (yes) and Hans H asked me to urgently move my tools to Alaska due to another mechanic changed his mind. A Piper Seneca came in from Provo to pick me up. We had a abort take off and overrun into the tumble weed due to nose baggage door popped open on rotation and loose luggage went into left propeller. Anyway made it to Vegas for transfers up to Alaska (with all my desert clothing). Alaska contracts another three or four years. The first couple of years was for Houston oil and minerals. There was come core drilling rigs set up around Nome and Kotsubue and Bettles. Helicopters mobilized all the parts in sling nets and hauled out to drilling sites. It was 24-7. Good cooks in the large hoop tents and we ate quite good. Lots of bears coming into camp then going off again. One camp was set up in a river bed (flood plain). It rained and you guessed it flooded our camp tents etc. Another season we tagged Muskox heard. Another season we put floats on the Hughes 500D and using a massive early Global position computer that must have been the size of a microwave we dipped into nearly every pond on the north slope to bag and tag mud samples for mineral analysis (uranium search). My last season was border control to Canada. Yes a bunch of grunts with chainsaws clearcutting a swath to mark Alaska/Canada border. My pilots I recall were Bruce something, and Dirk Vanderhorn and a few others. .When I was based in Provo my next door neighbor was Marie Osmond. She kept her Personal Hughes 500 in the Provo Hangar. Also I recall one icy foggy morning an emergency call came in for a boater in distress not far from the hangar. It was a real quick prep and the Bell 206 was in air and off into the soup. Somehow our pilot picked up the boater and came back to ramp. The rotor blades and Tail blades were fully loaded with Rime Ice so lucky he made it back....
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I hope everyone will forgive me for reposting my message from 5 years ago:
Please forgive me for crashing your thread but I thought you guys would like to know that a piece of your history has turned up in Australia. The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra recently acquired SA315B Lama s/n 2575 which once served with Rocky Mountain Helicopters as N3597D. We have the RMH log books from Oct 91 to Dec 93 but there are many gaps in the history so we will be very pleased to receive any anecdotes about her time with RMH. It seems that she did a lot of geophysical survey ranging as far afield as Alaska and Mexico. Above all does anyone have a photo of N3597D? |
Hello to All RMH Alumni....
I started @ the 'Rock' in 81', was with them on and off thru to the end in 2003.... Someone mentioned Ted Cash.. I worked w/ Ted in Wyo with a 206 in 83'. Ted in a 206 if you believe that... I have picts to prove :) ran into Doug Farfel several years ago (4 or 5) @ end of fire season in Boise .. he looked great. ran into some Siller guys this fire season 18' ( I took from our conversation that Doug may have retired)... Regarding N3597D... we took that to the arctic (ANWR) back in 88'... I do have several picts of that operation... Larry Boyer ran the maintenance floor and later training in Provo... had some great laughs with him... I do not forget Him.. great times... scott |
scottyjtm
Photos of N3597D would be greatly appreciated please. Rgds |
I started with RMH in 80 in Afton Wy. Spent the summer there then went to Bear River Service in the High Unitas and worked with Walt Tausch, Doug Farfel Skip Fisk and Bob Peterson -40 degrees many days. Moved down to Heber where several helicopter crews were working out of for the winter. Ted Cash was there Joe Moss was the manager of the pilots and Frank Harney was manager of the mechanics. A lot of good memories like flying with Doug Farfel NOE while he was rolling a cigarette. Sorry to hear about Skip Fisk he was a good friend and a great pilot. We were in Moab flying siesmic crews in the La Salles with the 205. Went out to picking up the juggies and the afternoon was a little warm and we couldn't get enough lite to get in the air. Skip said to tell the folks in the back to hang on and we hopped a coulple of times to get to the edge of a cliff then hopped once more over the side nosed it down and away we went. Great times with guys like Jack Buckley and many of the others already mentioned.
Jeff Marcroft |
Long time no talky! Howdy Jeff!
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Hello there! Brad Warren here. Great to read about some names of years past. Anyone still active on here? I did the seismic days all over Utah, Wyoming, Dakotas, Montana and more. Up in Alaska too. Some names I'm wondering about: Brad Larson, Jeff Alexander, Dale Sade, Bill Jahn, Dave McCoy, Clyde DeBell, Paul Banish, Bill Rodgers, Richard Just, Wayne Nielsen, Russ Bays, Doug Bays, Bill Ford. Cheers All
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Hi Brad. Yes it's been a long time what are up to now?
Jeff |
I've been flying for Erickson for the last 28 years, currently construction department, some fires, and a lot of logging years ago. How about you?
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Went to work for Hughes Helicopters who got bought out by McDonnell Douglas who merged with Boeing in 97. Worked the Apache from the beginning until I retired in AZ.. Dan Woodcock and Scott Johnson are both down here. Doug Bays worked for Hughes for 4 or 5 years then he went back up north.
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Brad/Jeff, it’s great that you guys have reconnected but might suggest that you carry on your reconciliation via PM’s or exchange email addresses rather than on a public forum... just saying |
Really? Really, Mr., nomorehelosforme? Who put you in charge of this forum? If you don't like the content of the thread, then just don't read it rather than sitting here dispensing your personal opinion as it were some policy around here. Maybe if you stopped posting this kind of wasteful opinion on a public forum... just saying
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Larry Boyer
Originally Posted by boyerkid
(Post 7641611)
Sorry to piggy back on this, but I am looking for anyone who may have any stories about working with my dad, Larry Boyer. He worked for Rocky Mountain Helicopters from the mid 1970's through his death in December of 2000. If you have any stories, please let me know.
Thanks |
Originally Posted by nomorehelosforme
(Post 10632036)
Brad/Jeff, it’s great that you guys have reconnected but might suggest that you carry on your reconciliation via PM’s or exchange email addresses rather than on a public forum... just saying "I start this Thread to talk with you guys about RMH Helicopters. It would be great if we could share pictures, good memories and some stories." I didn't see any thing about not reconnecting with others who you had worked with and are still around. |
Originally Posted by boyerkid
(Post 7641611)
Sorry to piggy back on this, but I am looking for anyone who may have any stories about working with my dad, Larry Boyer. He worked for Rocky Mountain Helicopters from the mid 1970's through his death in December of 2000. If you have any stories, please let me know.
Thanks Jeff Marcroft |
Hello. I worked for Sky Choppers in 1976. I was support for a 206B in Grand Junction, CO that was on lease to BLM that summer, providing firefighting support - Helitac team. I knew a lot of the guys there. I remember a pilot named Bruce White who was sadly lost that summer, flew into a wire in a Bell 47. I've been trying to find out what happened to the pilot that I worked with that summer, Bob Scarborough. He was a pilot in Nam and I've searched a number of databases for him. Any info about where he might be or might have gone would greatly appreciated. I'd love to reconnect if possible. Thanks for your help!
Bob Salyers |
Mechanic with RMH from 1980 to 1990
I think we had this ship on our sesmic crew we were based in Coalville UT and our crew was comprised of two lamas. Pilots Tim Norton, Pete Hendon, Tom Kupcho ( relief ) Sid King ( relief ) Mechanics were Jack Buckley, Richard Drazil, Dennis Bergy was swamper. we reported to Al Nowacki out of Provo.
It was a great company with three divisions, sesmic, heavy lift and EMS.
Originally Posted by Fris B. Fairing
(Post 8002460)
Please forgive me for crashing your thread but I thought you guys would like to know that a piece of your history has turned up in Australia. The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra recently acquired SA315B Lama s/n 2575 which once served with Rocky Mountain Helicopters as N3597D.
We have the RMH log books from Oct 91 to Dec 93 but there are many gaps in the history so we will be very pleased to receive any anecdotes about her time with RMH. It seems that she did a lot of geophysical survey ranging as far afield as Alaska and Mexico. Above all does anyone have a photo of N3597D? |
Fris B....
Somewhat untimely.. but nevertheless. I've located (don't want to rush a good thing) those dozen pics of the arctic operation with N3597D.. If you are still interested in them let me know .. I have them on a micro sd card .. could send / mail to wherever... whatever is easiest. I'm still running around pretty busy, but if you are still interested I can move on it... scott still wandering / wondering just the mechanic |
Originally Posted by scottyjtm
(Post 10244505)
Hello to All RMH Alumni....
I started @ the 'Rock' in 81', was with them on and off thru to the end in 2003.... Someone mentioned Ted Cash.. I worked w/ Ted in Wyo with a 206 in 83'. Ted in a 206 if you believe that... I have picts to prove :) ran into Doug Farfel several years ago (4 or 5) @ end of fire season in Boise .. he looked great. ran into some Siller guys this fire season 18' ( I took from our conversation that Doug may have retired)... Regarding N3597D... we took that to the arctic (ANWR) back in 88'... I do have several picts of that operation... Larry Boyer ran the maintenance floor and later training in Provo... had some great laughs with him... I do not forget Him.. great times... scott I have an old picture of a downed RM helicopter with a mechanic in the pic. Picture is from 1981 if you would like for me to post? |
Howdy from Robert Scarbrough
Bob, Its been a while, drop me a line when you get a chance.
Robert Scarbrough [email protected]
Originally Posted by SkyCh0ppers1
(Post 10783598)
Hello. I worked for Sky Choppers in 1976. I was support for a 206B in Grand Junction, CO that was on lease to BLM that summer, providing firefighting support - Helitac team. I knew a lot of the guys there. I remember a pilot named Bruce White who was sadly lost that summer, flew into a wire in a Bell 47. I've been trying to find out what happened to the pilot that I worked with that summer, Bob Scarborough. He was a pilot in Nam and I've searched a number of databases for him. Any info about where he might be or might have gone would greatly appreciated. I'd love to reconnect if possible. Thanks for your help!
Bob Salyers |
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Completion center tech 90-94
I worked at the completion center in Provo from May 1990 until we all got layer off in ‘93 or ‘94. Mark Martens was DOM. Some names I remember.. John mulbach, Kelly Queensberry. I have lots of pics of the aircraft I worked on during that time. I will try and dig them up. Most of these posts are from before my time but fun to read nonetheless. Wish I could remember some more names 🤦♀️
I have great memories of my time working there. Running the fuel truck for the buffalo roundup, unboxing a bell 222 from a container from Japan, reconstructing the crashed Bell 214 from Columbia, prepping and striping BKs for paint. I have pictures of all of it. I’ll post them here as I can. Was fun to find this! |
Originally Posted by Phil Kemp
(Post 6130954)
I ran the S61 logging operation in Alaska from 1990 to 1993. Great outfit and had some really great people there. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and we had some great fun working all through SE Alaska. The bankruptcy in 1993 ended the operation, but RMH came out of it as a purely EMS operation and was finally sold to Air Methods.
Met some great people while I worked there, and still stay in touch with lots of them. They had some great seismic and utility operations, and a great in-house capability to modify and complete machines for EMS and other applications. I learned to love the Lama while working there! |
Originally Posted by bell407mech
(Post 6130612)
Ahhh! A fellow Rocky Dude!
Rocky was one of the best helicopter company I have ever worked for! I joined in 1998 in Tucson, AZ as a mechanic. I was called, "Pete the Mechanic!" An EMS base called Air Care at the time. BK117, BO-105CBS, and a Cessna 441. Then later the fleet were replaced with Astars and called themselves, LifeNet Arizona. Oh, what great times! Todd McKiney, Joe Foster, and Jeremy Danforth were the maintenance guys I worked with. The people I worked with were great to work with. I left RMH in late 2000 to work on a EMS Bell 407. Yep, I am still here on the 407's. Best aircraft I have ever worked on. What about you? Who, what, where were you at Rocky? Pete |
RMH Logging
[QUOTE=Thebell;6130149]I start this Thread to talk with you guys about RMH Helicopters. It would be great if we could share pictures, good memories and some stories.
wondering if any of you knew my grandpa Leon A Bradford |
I delivered a Jet Ranger from the east coast to Rocky Mountain Helicopters, sometime in 1975. Might have been brokered by Helicopter Associates. I went through Army flight school with Larry Doll. Anyone know what's become of him?
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