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Wessex Operational - c1961 film

Last post by FD2 « Mon Mar 21, 2022 4:16 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Sat Mar 19, 2022 1:23 pm

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A Westlands film about the introduction of the Wessex Mk1 into RN service by 815 Squadron which commissioned with the type on 1 July 1961. In hangar...

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Thanks C16 - seems like only yesterday! I didn't know, or more likely forgot, that de Havilland had first developed the Gnome under licence from...

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Mon Mar 21, 2022 4:16 am
Robinsons - do they deserve their place?

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:39 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:30 pm
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An idea shamlessly stolen from elsewhere....but modified....

Twin engined helicopters look down on the single turbines and do not want to admit the...

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An interesting article in the Heliops Magazine about the home of the mighty Robinson Helicopter family...

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The...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:39 am
Piston engined helicopters...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Mon Feb 28, 2022 7:39 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:21 pm

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Being in morose humour today, I wasn't apt to do much in the way of work so I have idly been reading the list of piston-engined helicopters that have...

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Dennis Kenyon, used to be make the Schweizer do the most incredible manouevres. I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to him after a display at a...

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Mon Feb 28, 2022 7:39 pm
Sill the fastest conventional helicopter in 2022...

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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:52 am

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Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:52 am
R4-B Hoverfly landing on HMS Vanguard 1947

Last post by Boac « Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:08 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:45 pm

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I came across this photo again recently. It show Lt Ken Reed carrying out the first landing of an RN helicopter on a RN ship. It happened off...

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That's a pretty cluttered landing spot!

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Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:08 pm
Do helicopter pilots have the best sense of humour.

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:49 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:46 pm

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Spotted on a car sticker recently! :)

Helicopter pilots have the best control of their choppers!

=))

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GIrls love the good vibration...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:49 pm
Flying in the North Sea...

Last post by FD2 « Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:42 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Oct 28, 2021 6:32 am
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I was reprising the Flying Scotsmen Documentary that the BBC produced back in the 70's and that also featured Captain Alan Whitfield, the author of...

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The Sproule Net was a good idea in its day when the aircraft couldn't lift very much and double lifts were unlikely because that would have meant a...
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Last post by FD2
Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:42 pm
The Mountjoy Prison escape.....

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by CharlieOneSix » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:27 am

In 1973 I was working in Dublin and Cork for Irish Helicopters. In October there was a job for our Dublin based Alouette 2. The helicopter had been...

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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:27 am
Old mounts...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:56 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:50 am

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Dropped into Duxford for the first time in two years yesterday with another chap who is getting over the death of his wife in this annus horribilis....

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Helicopter as badly mangled as my spelling... seriously.

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:56 am
St Kilda

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:37 pm
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by fareastdriver » Tue Aug 03, 2021 7:02 pm

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I went to St Kilda once.

It was a Bristow task out of Aberdeen. A Norwegian trawler had got a stray fishing net tangled up in its propeller and it...

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Tisk tisk, Alison - you know people cannot 'fail' in this soft society. They just don't reach the required standard? :))

Surely not, you readjust...

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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:37 pm
Remembering Piper Alpha - 30 years on

Last post by Undried Plum « Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:32 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:48 am

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30 years ago tonight - 6th July 1988 - my co-pilot and I were based with a Bell 214ST helicopter on the Forties Bravo oil platform, 110 miles off...

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It's not about the exact ADN Radial/DME. Nor the METAR.

It was just Hell on Earth, for so many. Some of whom are still extant, in spirit, betwixt...

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Last post by Undried Plum
Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:32 pm
Ah, nostalgia - those were the days....

Last post by llondel « Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:40 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jun 23, 2020 4:22 pm
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Rather than thread drift the WOE thread, in reply to UP's post there...

New guess: Jock Dalgleish. Outstanding member of me old flying club...

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I like the reference to the powerful Conway engines. about a quarter of a Trent, and a bypass ratio of 0.3:1 compared to >10:1
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Last post by llondel
Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:40 pm
Warbird Workshop - Sea King renovation

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri May 07, 2021 11:09 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Thu May 06, 2021 10:04 pm

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Just watched an hour's programme on the Yesterday channel about the renovation to flying status of an RAF SAR Sea King by Historic Helicopters of...

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Our local scrapie near Coningsby had a Whirlwind. We could often see him practising a slalom. He had an underslung load that he would manoeuvre...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Fri May 07, 2021 11:09 am
Has Anybody Flown The Bristol Sycamore

Last post by fareastdriver « Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:49 am
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by fareastdriver » Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:40 pm

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I may seem like digging up the dead but the beginning of Sycamore training after flying four jet bombers was probably the most terrifying time of my...

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One of the problems I had was that I was an ex V force co-pilot and had spent the last three years doing very little actual poling. I had been...

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Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:49 am
Not sure where this belongs

Last post by G~Man « Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:12 am
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by G~Man » Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:46 am

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My life today
Tis what happens when the two senior pilots in a company fly together...
Which way ya wanna go?
I dunno----what does your I-pad say?...

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At least you had a better a/c for that mission.
What agency?

Lidar patrols were with Aetheon, but the ultimate custommer was Pacific Gas &...

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Last post by G~Man
Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:12 am
There are those who have done it - and those yet to....

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:39 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:35 pm

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Those of a certain age may remember Stanley Holloway reciting the story of how Albert Ramsbottom and his parents visited the zoo. Young Albert was...

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In the 80's and 90's I spent a lot of time over the years in Unst, the northernmost of all the inhabited islands in the British Isles. At that time...

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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:39 pm
The role of the UC Rating in the A/S Wessex...

Last post by FD2 « Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:00 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:37 am

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For those not in the know, in days of yore the crew of an anti-submarine role Wessex consisted of an Observer - Navy parlance for Navigator, and...

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Thanks C16 - what an amazing selection of models they've made. Great joke - was the newspaper printed on the 1st April ?!

Someone gave me an S76,...

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Last post by FD2
Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:00 am
Sikorsky S-52 flies again

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:30 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:47 am

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If Dinky toys ever made a model of a helicopter, it should have been of the S-52. There is something about the late 1940's shape that makes it a very...

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If Dinky toys ever made a model of a helicopter, it should have been of the S-52. There is something about the late 1940's shape that makes it a very...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:30 pm
Helicopter lore

Last post by G~Man « Mon Jul 13, 2020 4:12 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:39 pm

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And the Lord looked down upon the earth and passed the word inscribed in rotors of wood to the heathen pilots who saw they were good...

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Ass, Tin, Ticket.

Save your ass first, then try save the aircraft, lastly save your licence in that order.

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Last post by G~Man
Mon Jul 13, 2020 4:12 pm
French Helicopters

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Jul 08, 2020 8:01 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:03 pm
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I have been looking at French helicopters and came across this little wonder...

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Eurocopter (Airbus Helicopters) Tiger

Airbus EC665
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Jul 08, 2020 8:01 am
Stealth Helicopters

Last post by ian16th « Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:28 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:15 am
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In my meanderings around French helicopters I came across the Eurocopter EC130 which is accounted to be one of the quietest helicopters on the civil...

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The Black Hornet maa bonnie lad...

Is it white 'cos it carries Yellow Sun?
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Last post by ian16th
Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:28 pm
Does size matter?

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:17 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:26 pm

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They don't come bigger than this!

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A potted history of the technical spec. on the Mil V-12 helicopter can be found here... Mil V-12 the aircraft was effectively replaced by the Mil...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:17 am
Trump Shuttle

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:50 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:57 am

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Trump is hardly a hero I mine but I was interested to read of his short lived attempt as a helicopter company entrepreneur!

Trump's formal launch...

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Not I mine but of mine... Predictive text! :-s

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:50 am
Rotary Humour

Last post by FD2 « Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:25 pm
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by FD2 » Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:16 am
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Probably a short lived thread, but a couple of 'Tugg' flight safety cartoon from back in 1985 to bring a smile in these troubled times.

Tugg 1985 1...

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She'll catch her death of cold wearing them.... :p
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Last post by FD2
Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:25 pm
Account of the BV234 Crash Sumburgh 1986

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:40 am
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by FD2 » Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:18 am

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Not sure this is right for 'nostalgia' but a gripping account from Pushp Vaid of the BV234 (civil Chinook) crash off Sumburgh in 1986 which killed 45...

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Pushp was decorated for his service in the Indian Air Force before he moved to the UK and joined us in British Airways Helicopters in Aberdeen....

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Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:40 am

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