So, as mentioned in a previous post, the guardians of Bristow History have aquired certain pictures which arrived in Shrewsbury today in a plain brown envelope.
These will, in three weeks time, be smuggled to Cyprus, secretly scanned, posted and saved on a disc, prior to being returned to where from they came. Many thanks to the operatives (who must remain nameless) involved in this operation. I owe you a beer and and a few stamps Les.

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Stacey, the name that escapes you might be the infamous Pete Grimwood.

Thats the Fella, spooky, I got a message from him on Facebook the next day!!

S

With a picture of him with a rubber glove over his head, I hope!!

Ah, Tim Collins is peering out of the pile of photos, I do believe!

And a very young Clive Wright front RHS.

212man..... I think you are right.

TC was well known for his conservative approach to flying..

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He had hair then too! Even Maggie looks young.

Was Edwina Curry smuggled into the hold?

That must have been the election when the aircraft was being operated out of the Redhill hanger. We had a squad of armed policemen round the clock, and I managed to spray one with hydraulic fluid when changing a sas actuator. luckily he saw the funny side of it, and didn't shoot me.

Ringo named two of them Cagny and Lacy, only he could get away with that.

The aircraft had been immaculately prepared by Aberdeen to VIP status, but on its staging through Yarmouth, someone doing a turn round blew the floats off, so the Yarmouth night shift had to spend time repacking them. An evil job on the 76.

TTO.

Not always in the hold....


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Very good!:ok:

Dave

EJ was a Yarmouth based aircraft in 1992 when the John and Norma Major picture was taken. It was Bob Goddard's team who prepared it. You are right though, it was old Paddy ? who blew the floats during a check the night before departure.

Fun days...

HP 11

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Is that Roddy McKaskill in the front? I'm sure he was still wearing that jacket when he came to Port Harcourt!

Election Time
 

When maggie on the election campaign, as DaveB points out we had armed coppers inside the hangar. Their boss decided to give them a security test one morning, being the slack alice hangar foreman at the time I was told about it. I wandered upstairs to talk to Derek Cook for some reason - lo and behold he was was looking out across the hangar.He calls me over and say " ere - who's that idiot?" Looking out there was a guy wearing white overalls(we all wore blue or red)with a flat cap on walking round the aircraft. Cookie then says " he must be a flipping copper, only a copper would dress like an idiot and think he looked normal" All this time the copper in mufti is wandering round whilst his men are sitting around picking their noses and scratching their a*ses totally ignoring him. For days afterwards Cookie was heard wandering the halls of Redhill chuckling to himself and muttering "why are coppers such Flipping idiots "
It was funny at the time - no offense to any law that may read this :ok:

We had many lectures from the mufti copper about security - yawn!

The 412s

Never a mainstay of the Bristow fleet but have made quite a few cameo appearances throughout the years in a variety of guises.

Starting with Dubai....

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Still hard working machines at Shawbury and Valley.
The Bell line at Shawbury this morning had six of these, a 412 on permanent loan from Cyprus and an ex Bristow 212.

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Ah yes, the N registered 412 SP ended up as G-SPBA in 1989 and went to Great Yarmouth.

It spent some time on trial to Conoco working the V fields, then Amoco to the Leman and Inde. It never really caught on as the customers didn't see the advantage over the 212 as being significant enough to justify the increase in price.

Actually, it did have advantages in terms of IFR range due to its fuel capacity and speed but wasn't as good in terms of deck landing and take off. Since Amoco would wait until the weather improved to fly, it didn't really have the opportunity to show its talents and eventually disappeared from GY.

Derek Cook Story
 

WE must have a particularly sensitive moderator on here - I blanked out all of the swearing , now they have gone and changed the wording. Anyone who knew DC would know he wouldnt say "flipping"
:confused:


Sensitive? No.

Moderating to the ROE that you signed up to? Yes.

Senior Pilot

G-AZDC
 

Being offloaded and taken into the Bristow hanger at Redhill.

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