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CHC sells ex-Babcock OHS to South African Company
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Jan 17, 2023 7:20 pm
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CHC Helicopters has agreed the sale of Offshore Helicopter Services (OHS) UK – a business it acquired from Babcock before UK competition regulators...
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I was apt to try and better understand why the regulators may have belatedly blocked the deal. This article was pretty clear...
One wonders...
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:52 am
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Midair midwifery!
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TheGreenAnger » Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:37 pm
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A woman has said she could not have felt safer as she gave birth, even though it happened on a rescue helicopter whizzing her from the Isles of...
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As an EMT I was told that no one died in an ambulance. They only died once they reached the hospital.
Hence the term DOA.
Now days paramedics are...
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Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:44 pm
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V-280 VALOR
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FD2 » Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:24 am
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US reveals futuristic helicopter that will replace Black Hawks
The new V-280 Valor aircraft will fly at speeds similar to a fixed-wing plane, and...
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Boac No common sense or interest in the subject you're writing about maybe. Papers used to have defence or aviation correspondents, who knew what...
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Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:51 am
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Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:07 am
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Helicopter Mid Air Recovery.
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TheGreenAnger » Sun Nov 06, 2022 1:40 pm
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This subject was suggested by this thread...
Rocket Lab
Kiwi based company seems to be onto something here, despite the fact that their most...
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The S92 which they are using to try the airborne capture has just been down in the South Island again. There doesn't seem to be anything in the local...
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Mon Nov 07, 2022 10:15 am
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Tue Nov 01, 2022 6:14 pm
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King Power Stadium Helicopter Crash
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Cacophonix » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:39 pm
A helicopter owned by Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has burst into flames after it crashed outside the King Power stadium this...
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Last post by Woody
Fri Oct 28, 2022 4:23 pm
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'Competitive Rate of Pay' for King's Flight Pilot
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FD2 » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:33 am
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Wanted - a pilot for the King! Palace seeks new helicopter pilot for elite unit on 'competitive salary' and with experience of working with 'VVIPs'...
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So when you were flying royals around in your VC10 it was because they couldn't justify having such a large aircraft permanently allocated to the...
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Fri Oct 14, 2022 4:40 am
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Helicopter crash in New Zealand
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FD2 » Thu Oct 18, 2018 3:17 am
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Tragically, another crash, this time at Wanaka, South Island. I say tragically because the family lost another son a few months ago in a helicopter...
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Update, finally:
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Last post by FD2
Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:27 am
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Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:22 pm
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Yet Another Future Air Taxi Appears
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FD2 » Wed Oct 05, 2022 1:52 am
Yet another company convinces reporter that this is the air taxi of the future! I think I have been reading about this sort of thing since scanning...
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Last post by FD2
Wed Oct 05, 2022 1:52 am
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Helicopter's electromagnetic survey gear hits 11kv power line - Aberdeenshire
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CharlieOneSix » Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:05 pm
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This happened about 20 miles from us this morning. The incident occurs in the first few seconds of the video when the survey gear strikes the 11kv...
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Worked with a survey team with a 20ft cylindrical boom on a 120 ft strop, the flying was c/o at 200ft using a Rad alt. The survey was on an area...
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Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:01 pm
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A busy morning....
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:12 am
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A busy morning at the ILS ABZ now the fog is lifting.....
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Too busy for # ThickLizzy
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Last post by Woody
Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:42 am
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Bored...post some pics of flying
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G~Man » Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:45 pm
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With all this Covid-19 stuff going on, I am lucky to be exempt from the quarantines. I ferried a Bell 205 almost the length of California on Tuesday...
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A tad different to the flying you are doing..... Wanna trade?
A tad tricky as I don't have a helo licence. We thought about getting our helo PPLs...
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Last post by reddo
Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:53 pm
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Kobe Bryant dead, private Sikorsky S-76 down
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probes » Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:34 pm
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Kobe Bryant: Basketball legend dies in helicopter crash
Five people killed, CNN says.
R.I.P.
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What is wrong with police et al that they compound the grief and misery of the families by behaving in such a disgusting way.
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Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:42 am
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Ideal for TGA - a new career!!
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CharlieOneSix » Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:58 pm
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Interesting,
In somewhere around 1970 I decided that Helicopters were the future and that is what I wanted to fly.
I further decided that, to fly...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:10 am
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Bristow goes long on e-VTOL
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TheGreenAnger » Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:23 am
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I wonder what Alan Bristow would have made of this?
For the vast majority of its existence Bristow Group has been synonymous with helicopter...
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So five firm orders for a design that is the result of 3 years of precise design and development that takes inspiration from the Artic Tern....
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Sun Aug 21, 2022 6:47 pm
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Cabri lost after a training sortie on the 11th August
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TheGreenAnger » Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:07 am
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A HELICOPTER crashed while attempting to land at Goodwood Aerodrome.
The Cabri G2 two-seat chopper crashed at the airfield near Chichester shortly...
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I think that his training fees have just gone up.
Our lot won't let even high hours PPL's move the aircraft out of the hangar after somebody...
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:16 am
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2015 Fox Glacier 350 Crash
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FD2 » Fri May 17, 2019 11:14 am
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The November 2015 Squirrel crash, into a crevasse of the Fox Glacier on the west coast of New Zealand, which killed 6 passengers and one pilot has...
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Coroner calls for stronger aviation rules after Fox Glacier helicopter crash (2015)
How did this take 7 years?
In an...
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Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:43 am
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Fri Jul 22, 2022 7:24 pm
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Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:22 am
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French Pilot's 'Pantalon Brun' Moment
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FD2 » Fri Jul 08, 2022 9:49 pm
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There is plenty of speculation about this incident which happened at the Pointe du Raz lighthouse in Finisterre. It may have been an underslung load...
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'Pantalon Brun' indeed! Agreed that it is due to a line snag, but what an amazing instinctive recovery even if almost everything in the drive train...
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Sat Jul 09, 2022 3:58 pm
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