Cairns (Australia) -Torres Straits - Mt. Isa - Alice Springs - Longreach - Cairns - 3000 naut. miles in an R22 over 9 days

This years "Secret Men's Business" trip with an R22, R44 and five fixed wings.
The pics are slowly being added to the website if you want a look.

http://secretmensbusiness.homestead.com

I've done several long distance helicopter ferry flights:

Lafayette, LA to Ecuador (Bell 205)
Lafayette, LA to Bolivia (Bell 206)
Lafayette, LA to Alaska and back (three times)
Phoenix, AZ to Barrow, AK (Bell 212)
Bridgeport, CT to Houston, TX (SK-76)
Houston, TX to Long Beach, CA and back (SK-76)
Houston, TX to Phoenix and back (A-109 and SK-76)
Houston, TX to New York to St. Louis to Houston (SK-76)
Phoenix, AZ to Dallas to New York (SA-365N)
Dallas, TX to Phoenix, AZ (BH-212 and AS-355)

Vergiate, Italy (Outside Milano) to Gander, Newfoundland

Nearly 5000nm in an EH101 that still had that new car smell.

Highlights:
The helo route through London along the Thames. (I'm a country mouse;))
An iceberg sticking 360' out of the ocean.
A polar bear hunting seals along an fissure in the ice.

Lotsa pics if anyone's interested.

Lotsa pics if anyone's interested
 

Pics would be great, if you need them hosted, e mail me :ok:

As flight manager with all Russian speaking crew, ferried Mi-26 from Phnom Pehn, Cambodia to Ukhta (just short of artic circle) in Russia

Trip took 9 days via Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia
Cannot recall actual distance

Highlight (debatable)
Arrested under gunpoint in Zahedan, Iran upon landing due to mix up in clearance # issued by Tehran. Told to turn back due to invalid #, declared state as fuel critical, landed, arrested, passports confiscated, interrogated, allowed one phone call to office in Singapore, kept in windowless hotel under armed guard, released 24 hrs later (happy campers), paid for fuel (about 8000USD), next stop was in Ashkabat (Turkmenstan) 2 in the morning during a severe snow storm.

Managed to do most of the flying from Turkmenstan..up until then very busy with comms

Entire trip cost 51,000USD and was paid for in cash, got some great pics unfortunately back in oz.

YVR YMX DUB DEL DAR TSV HNL YVR ... 8 days A310-300 Transglobal both hemispheres. Positioned 42 Irish Peace Keepers (Is this an oxi-moron?) from Dub to Townsville Austrailia for the East Temor problem back in 1999.

Great trip.

Thread ressurection alert!
 

I'm researching an early ferry flight from Gt Yarmouth, England to Australia in 1969 by a Bristow Wessex.

Do any of you august contributors have a steer on where to find out the details?

Thanks in anticipation.

Sir George Cayley

Last week. Ft Worth Texas to St Thomas, USVI. Via Florida, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Dominican Rebublic.
B407 with Air Conditioner...Yahoooooo. Longest was the same route from California.
Did a helicopter ferry from Nairobi to Johannesburg once, dont know how far that is..

186 miles over the sea at night to a coning tower which would surface for a 15 minute window only, off the eastern seaboard of Newfoundland.

And the shortest? :}

Probably next week I will be flying a 407 from Seattle to Mexico City, about 2,000 NM, the only thing I don't like it that I will be flying alone and it will be boring at times. I Promise to take pictures!

Flew a Mil Mi8-MTV (Mi17) from Cape Town, South Africa to Khartoum, Sudan. via Uppington (SA), Gabarone (Botswana), Bulawayo (Zim), Ndola (Zambia), Mbeya, Tabora, Mwanza (Tanzinia), Entebe (Uganda), Juba, Rumbek, El Obeid, Khartoum (Sudan). Took us 5 days. Some great scenery. The usual negotiations to continue without a few days in some cell, $$$$$, and of course avoid being shot down by waring factions through DRC and along the Ugandan/Sudan border. :uhoh: One of those trips that is a lot more fun after the fact.:O
lionco

Four Robbies straight across Australia for some fishing!

http://rotorheads.com.au/kimberley05...here_small.jpg

http://rotorheads.com.au/kimberley05...come_small.jpg

Awesome trip! Looking forward to the next one!

Trip reports on http://rotorheads.com.au

Took at 76 A++ single pilot from Redhill to Lagos, which was great fun:

Redhill-Gatwick (customs)-La Rochelle-Bilbao (night stop)-Porto-Faro (night stop)-Cassablanca-Agadir-Las Palmas (night stop)-Al Daklah-Nouackchott (night stop)-Kiffa-Bamako (night stop)-Bouake-Accra (3 night stop)-Cotonou-Port Harcourt-Lagos (end, about 4200nm)

Don't ask about the reason for 3 nights in Accra or the route to Lagos via Port Harcourt!

Took 3 EC-155s from Marseille to Lagos same basic route once in Morroco.

It seemed that ferry flights were like buses; you wait for ages for one, then they all come at once (all 4 trips in 15 months)!

Just recently did about 1000 miles from Newcastle (Aus) to Townsville coastal in about 11 1/2 hours. Sunup to sundown including fuel and toilet stops.

RR

Back in '88 ferried an AS365N from Maastricht to Port Harcourt.
Route was Maastricht Marseilles (Fuel) Algiers (nightstop). Algiers El Golea (fuel) Tamanrasset (nightstop). Tamanrasset Agades Kano Port Harcourt. A total flight time of 22 hours 55 mins. Two pilots, one engineer, one SA330 ferry tank in the back and the standard ferry tank in the baggage bay meant oodles of fuel. Basic aircraft fit i.e. no GPS etc made for an interesting navigation exercise over the desert, but it worked as all three crew are still flying/mending.
Others flew SA330's from France to Indonesia, 212 to Australia, 330's and 365N's to India and back again.
Happy days

Long-haul Helicopters
 

Delivery of new AS332L2 Super Puma from Marseille to Kuala Lumpur. Three aircraft June-October 2005. 6665nm each one, eight days flying.

This pic is the actual track downloaded from the GPS into Google Earth. Should anyone be interested PM me for the actual Google Earth placeholder so that you can zoom in and see where we went in detail.

http://www.eurocoptermalaysia.com/do...y%20Flight.jpg

Not rotorcraft (and not me either) but just for interest...

Boeing 777 departed Hong Kong last week to go to London..eastwards!

“We plan to smash the current record,” said Captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, one of the four pilots of the 777-200LR Worldliner, one of Boeing’s newest planes.

The flight was expected to take about 23 hours and cover more than 12,586 miles, a Boeing statement said.


Link to News Article

6665 nm in 8 days; that's either very keen or you couldn't find anywhere decent to stay (or go AOG!)

No doubt the ECF support was first rate!!!

S61N Aberdeen to Male(Maldives)......and back 12months later.
A colleague was asked to plan Tokyo-Aberdeen a few years ago.... yep you guessed- it was canx and the machine airfreighted instead.