Re the Wessex at PH I think the two chaps with Don Strange are, on the right, John Baker and Tony Hobday in the centre.

Well jings, crivens and help ma' boab. Is that Rob Torenvlied on HP26? Went to school with the chap, and what a gentleman he was, although the tache was a little too much!;)
Haven't seen him for 25 years, anyone know his whereabouts?

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...g?t=1240010477

HP54 - The Last Redhill Course

In the photo starting Back Row L- R


Chris Ostler - Now flying VIP's in Surrey
Richard Trives (Brother of Rob) - Flying for Dan Copter in Holland
Daryll Kelly - Flying for Bristow International (Maybe Mauritania)
Gus Vatnsdal - Bristow Australia
Guy Holmes - Aberdeen
Rory Stewart - Chief Pilot, Aberdeen
Caroline Lloyd - Now married to a Bristow pilot - Aberdeen
Alan Lewis - S61 & EC155 Training Capt Norwich
Jane McGill - British International Helicopters
Paul Mattinson - Bristow, Norwich

check out Jane McGill !! Foxy chick....

Married now...

http://www.webgreatbritain.co.uk/fal...al/TomJane.jpg

When would that have been then? I'm guessing 1998 or 99.

I see the thread has passed the 200,000 views & has 860+ replies over 44 pages. When I started the thread I thought I might get a dozen or so photos posted. How wrong can you be? (I notice that the BEA/BIH thread stalled at about 3 pages.)

Please keep scouring your attics & do keep us up to date with recent photos. All of those posted so far are fascinating.

TTO

HP 54 started May 1998 graduated March 1999.

School was being closed down round them as they were finishing - very sad.

Last one out switch off the lights!

G-BBVA Sumburgh 1989.

VA was the interim SAR aircraft at Sumburgh when the contract started circa 1986? Until G-BDOC was modified with the full LN450 fit. However when this picture was taken she was the back up aircraft & flew very little.

She was used, from time to time, for conversion courses. So for a while the majority of the her landings were single engine (either rejected take offs or single engine landings). Here she is being refueled for one of my famil flights with Bill Wood. During my subsequent 1179 & base check, with Mal Harvey, I carried out a reject with a respectable landing. However the tail wheel collapsed. I still maintain that the landing in question was not the cause but I dare say that a number of my practices during the preceeding few days may not have helped.

Anyway VA was AOG for a while until a new tailwheel unit was located in a scrap yard in the USA. I completed my base check in Aberdeen a few days later with Bill Oliver.

One thing I remember vividly about that week in Sumburgh was looking out of my window in the Sumburgh Hotel watching Mal Harvey do a downwind quickstop to the threshold of runway 33.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...VASumburgh.jpg

TTO

Following on from the broken tailwheel, how many tailwheel lock pins did you break in your S61 flying career? One of the ones I sheared is now a much used bottle opener sitting in my kitchen.

Where's Mal Harvey these days?

HOGE

I cannot recall whether I did or didn't break any tail wheel lock pins. I know it was common for them to be broken. It's likely that I did at some point but compared to the many embarrasing things I have done breaking tail wheel pins is not significant enough to remember.

I heard Mal Harvey had a brain haemorrhage outside the line office in Aberdeen a number of years ago. Someone found him collapsed at the bottom of the steps. Don't know if he recovered or not.

Alan Bristow RIP
 

see link here: http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/371...istow-rip.html



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Mal Harvey
 

Mal is alive and well and presently living just down the road from me here in Balmedie. Made a very good recovery from the brain op.

Ken

Thanks, I'm very pleased to hear Mal is well. He was great to fly with, An excellent Training Captain and a real Gent.

TTO

"the Wessex were retired after the Ben Breach G-ASWI accident in 1981 and were replaced by Bell 212s BJJO BJJP and BJJR.

JR met its end sadly with Pip Smith and Tony Liston in 1985 during a night Rowan Crew change to the Cecil Provine."

Minor correction....BJJR met its end in 1984 (I know Tony Liston's widow)

Joe

are those asian are from Malaysia?

When I was at Lee-on-Solent with SAR, if you broke the tail wheel locking pin for any reason and it was your fault, the engineers made you change it under their supervision ........

Lucky I never went to Lee-On-Solent then!

TipCap
It was always your fault!!!!:D
3D

From the http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/371...ed-please.html thread:

http://www.lowefoto.co.uk/konica/301208-2.jpg

Thanks Loweskid

Bristow Photos
 

Hi,

Could anyone tell me if bristow have any SAR contracts at the moment?