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Forum: Rotorheads
19th Aug 2010, 18:21
Replies: 2,607
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Posted By Redflag1960

DoW Enstrom (latest)

A quick update on the DoW's Enstrom 280C Shark, G-TALY's predecessor (no pics yet but to follow soon I hope).

It was registered as G-BGWS (now G-MOTR) and owned by the DoW while he was Earl...
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Aug 2010, 17:16
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

DoW Enstrom

DennisK,
You seem to have had more to do with the Enstrom than you recall! :)

I rang my Dad yesterday to ask him to look out some pics of the Enstrom but he was out and while leaving a message...
Forum: Rotorheads
15th Aug 2010, 11:49
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Enstrom Shark

In reply to Earl's post, I can confirm that the sequence of aircraft (FW & RW) operated by the DoW during the late 70's early 80's were (I will add the regs later when I have had a chance to check...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Aug 2010, 15:37
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

And finally....

TALY sits in the hangar while engineers fit the heater and radios.
http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx132/redflag1960/Ferry%20Flight%20G-TALY%20March%201979/28.jpg
and then gets a new colour...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Aug 2010, 15:25
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

And so to Part Three

Part Three starts with what my father claims is a distortion of the facts.

After leaving Milan they headed to Lugano in Switzerland. At this point the official photographic record of the journey...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Aug 2010, 14:43
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Are you till sitting confortably? Then I'll begin Part Two

After arriving at Urbe, the idea was to refuel and head along the coast to Genoa. At the time G-TALY was not fitted with a range-extender and she held fuel for 250 miles. It was 230 to Genoa. It was...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Aug 2010, 14:14
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin....

Once upon a time (Tuesday 13th March 1979 to be exact) two intrepid airmen, my father Ken Davies and his trusty sidekick who now goes by the name of Geoffersincornwall (for reasons that may become...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Aug 2010, 13:48
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Everything Comes To He Who Waits!

OK, as a newbie there is an excelent chance that i will get the process of attaching the images wrong at least once before I get the hang of it so this will either be the first image of G-TALY to...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Aug 2010, 22:20
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Pictures of G-TALY to follow soon!

I now have on loan from my Father a wonderful album of photographs & cartoons detailing the collection of G-TALY from Frosinone in March 1979. I will scan the most significant pictures as soon as I...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Aug 2010, 08:58
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Thanks for the welcome (again!)

It has been quite an event reading through the accumulated thread and picking up on the references to my Dad, it has brought back a lot of memories of my own. I am going to see my Dad this evening...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Aug 2010, 19:15
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

Latest Update

Having spoken to my Dad he is going to have a rummage and see what pictures of TALY, TALI and anything else of interest that he can find.

I can now confirm that TALY was the only JetRanger that...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Aug 2010, 15:06
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

More from Ken

Thanks for the warm welcome! I will give my dad a ring tonight and see what pictures he can dig out and I'll scan them and get them posted for you all. One extra little snippet that occurs to me, the...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Aug 2010, 14:48
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,490
Posted By Redflag1960

G-TALY & DoW's Pilot

Just stumbled across this forum by accident and spotted this thread with interest. My father is Ken Davies, the former pilot of the Duke of Westminster and one-time pilot of G-TALY. Now retired (but...
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