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What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:40 am
by Uuoret
...soz about the badly damaged second slide....
Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:13 am
by Andy L
I think it's a Westland Wessex of Bristow Helicopters.
Andy
Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:15 am
by Peteski
S.58T ?
Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:16 am
by Uuoret
....nearly, but not quite....!!
Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:16 am
by Uuoret
Peteski is right!!
Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:19 am
by Uuoret
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.
J
Re: What Type of Helicopter was I flying on?
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 6:58 pm
by propsmoke
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...