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One armed paper hanger-keeping it all together in a helicopter

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Mon May 29, 2023 9:27 pm
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by OneHungLow » Fri May 26, 2023 12:26 pm
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I am undertaking a cross country VFR navex training flight to Shoreham in the next fortnight, and have been advised by my instructor who will...

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......As for the other beast... was this the machine?

That is indeed the horrible thing - photo taken on 2/12/69 when I was based for a while at...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Mon May 29, 2023 9:27 pm
60 years on…….

Last post by Karearea « Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:43 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:52 pm

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I received a pleasant surprise letter in the post today. It was an invitation - which I’ve accepted - to a champagne and canapés reception at Bristol...

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I remember watching Whirlybirds, and Sea Hunt!

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Last post by Karearea
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:43 am
Why helicopter experience wasn't the same as flying the Lunar Module!

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by TheGreenAnger » Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:17 pm

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Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:17 pm
Nice article about Helos

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Fri Dec 23, 2022 10:45 am
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by Woody » Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:55 am

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Here’s a nice positive article about whirlygigs for a change :-bd

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A good article. No mention of Scotland even though the National Grid stretches as far north as Orkney. In 26 years here I've only seen a helicopter...

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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Fri Dec 23, 2022 10:45 am
Lost Horizon!

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am
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by TheGreenAnger » Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:46 am

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Chopper indeed! ~X(

Despite that bad start it is an interesting documentary.

Sent to me by my old mucker, Mo al Khalifa, “jinn of the desert”, the...

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......I note that the Horizon video has footage of the loss of another helicopter at the Paris Airshow which killed the friend of another poster...

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Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am
Hiller History

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:12 pm
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by TheGreenAnger » Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:27 pm

Last Hiller.JPG

Hiller Aircraft have been reborn in California where parts are being manufactured...

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Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:12 pm
Helicopter Altitude and Parachutes

Last post by FD2 « Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:41 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:55 am

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Frank Robinson Tables of Stone.JPG

Maybe the mandatory wearing of a parachute like you mention would be one way to avoid the 9000 feet operating...

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That Whirlwind height climb was one of the most uncomfortable ones - it felt like we we sitting on the top of a pin, wobbling around. My Aussie...

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Last post by FD2
Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:41 pm
Robinsons - do they deserve their place?

Last post by FD2 « Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:00 pm
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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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Thanks G~Man - not exactly tight regulation, though I doubt anyone operating out in the bush would be too worried about any restrictions. Perhaps one...
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Last post by FD2
Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:00 pm
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
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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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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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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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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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Last post by fareastdriver
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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Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:30 pm

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