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What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

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What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by Uuoret » Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:40 am

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...soz about the badly damaged second slide....

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Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by Andy L » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:13 am

I think it's a Westland Wessex of Bristow Helicopters.

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Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by Peteski » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:15 am

S.58T ?

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Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by Uuoret » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:16 am

....nearly, but not quite....!!

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Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by Uuoret » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:16 am

Peteski is right!!

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Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by Uuoret » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:19 am

Taken 40 years ago, out of Teesside to the Philips Ekofisk field and back - 5 hour round trip.

We used to fly with the door open now and again - don't think the CAA will bother about it now though!

Things have been massively (and quite rightly) tightened up since then.

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Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?

Post by propsmoke » Sun Nov 05, 2017 6:58 pm

Hi..
if its was out of Teesside then deffo a Sikorsky S-58 with a possibility of it being G-BCDF or G-BCTX, as they seem to be the more common ones based for a while in the mid late 70s..

I remember well in my early years going up to watch these beasts coming and going...
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