Alan Bristow Helicopter Pioneer
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Alan Bristow Helicopter Pioneer
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Author : Alan Bristow
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2010-03-10
Alan Bristow Helicopter Pioneer written by Alan Bristow and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“You could be forgiven for taking Bristow’s story as the invention of an action thriller writer . . . One of the best flying books you’ll ever read.” —Pilot Magazine Alan Bristow was a truly remarkable man. As a merchant navy officer cadet during the war, he survived two sinkings, played a part in the evacuation of Rangoon and was credited with shooting down two Stukas in North Africa. He joined the Fleet Air Arm and trained as one of the first British helicopter pilots, becoming the first man to land a helicopter on a battleship and Westland’s first helicopter test pilot. He flew in France, Holland, Algeria, Senegal and elsewhere, narrowly escaping many helicopter crashes before winning the Croix de Guerre evacuating wounded French soldiers in Indochina. For four years he flew for Aristotle Onassis’s pirate whaling fleet in Antarctica before joining Douglas Bader and providing support services to oil drillers in the Persian Gulf. Out of that grew Bristow Helicopters Ltd, the largest helicopter company in the world outside America. Bristow’s circle included the great helicopter pioneers such as Igor Sikorsky and Stan Hiller, test pilots like Harold Penrose and Bill Waterton, Sheiks and Shahs and political leaders, business giants like Lord Cayzer and Freddie Laker, and the author James Clavell, a lifelong friend whose book Whirlwind was a fictionalized account of Bristow’s overnight evacuation of his people and helicopters from revolutionary Iran. Bristow and precipitated the Westland Affair when he made a takeover bid which eventually led to the resignation of Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittain, and almost to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher. “Has all the ingredients of a bestselling novel.” —Firetrench
Life In A Spin
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Author : Nick Mylne
language : en
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-09
Life In A Spin written by Nick Mylne and has been published by Hybrid Global Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-09 with Transportation categories.
Life In A Spin is nothing to do with politics, but all about Mylne's career piloting helicopters for the Army and commercially. In his prologue, he says memories pop up at random and never in neat chronological order. So you have been warned: in these 112 pages, he dexterously jumps in time and place. Sandhurst, Aden, Stockholm, Middle Wallop, Germany, Oxford, Saudi Arabia, Tehran, Damascus, Redhill, Jamaica, Goose Bay in Canada, and Oman pass at blistering speed as he matter-of-factly and tightly amuses us in the high and low altitudes of his life in the cockpit. He spent 30 years flying and followed that with 20 years teaching aviation law and human performance. But it is not the teaching that he writes about. Instead, we discover an Army general overly aware of his appearance but brought to earth in flames. A crewman who almost lands Mylne in a Middle Eastern prison. A helicopter is downed in the North Sea. He describes in spare, but telling detail of when he was heading for a cliff-top landing only for the tail rotor of his machine to fail. The helicopter spun, hit the cliffside and fell halfway towards the sea before coming to rest upside down and burning with him trapped inside. A charismatic King Hussein of Jordan, the King of Spain, Qaboos bin Said (former Sultan of Oman), and Nelson Rockefeller slide through the pages. Read how Mylne met the woman who became his wife while he was under suspicion in Assad's Syria.It is a testament to the tightness of his writing about these 'shared moments' that he manages to cover so much in so few pages, though the densely detailed news-in-brief approach sometimes leaves you hungering for context. The book is light-heartedly illustrated by Peter Loyd, another former Army pilot and friend. --John Price, Journalist, The Times, The Sunday Times, Daily Express and Daily Mail
Leading From The Front
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Author : Andrew Healey
language : en
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Release Date : 2003
Leading From The Front written by Andrew Healey and has been published by Tempus Publishing, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This is the definitive history of the company which grew from inauspicious beginnings to become one of the largest independent helicopter fleets in the UK, serving the oil rigs of the North Sea as well as charters. The firm of Bristow was founded in 1952 and has grown to be the largest civilian helicopter fleet in Europe with over 120 aircraft. It provides support for the offshore industry as well as search and rescue services around the British coast. The company operates in many parts of the world and is truly a global business.
Helicopter Heroine
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Author : Charles Morgan Evans
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-01-01
Helicopter Heroine written by Charles Morgan Evans and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with History categories.
Valérie André is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat and one of the first three helicopter medevac pilots. Flying more than 150 helicopter rescue missions during the French war in Indochina (including at Dien Bien Phu), and parachuting into the field twice, André was a trailblazer, a pioneer of flying helicopters in combat and an innovator of battlefield medicine, who risked her life to treat the wounded, whether they were French or Vietnamese, whether they were friend, civilian, or foe. Aviation historian Charles Morgan Evans tells her story with verve and pathos. André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges. While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon, performing one hundred procedures per month. When the French medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped into military outposts, she quickly volunteered, and then when the service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and mechanical issues with the helicopters— not to mention the French army’s prejudice against a female pilot and surgeon—André nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. The Vietnamese called her “the woman who comes down from the sky” and “Mrs. Ventilator.” On one day in December 1951, she flew her chopper into the teeth of antiaircraft fire to a besieged base, where she performed emergency brain surgeries, then flew the wounded to hospitals in Hanoi, two at a time. After Indochina, she continued to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an advocate for women’s integration into the French military. In the early 1960s, she flew another 236 missions in Algeria. In 1975, she became the first female general in the French army, and at her retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000 hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit. André, who just turned ninety-nine, is still alive and lives near Paris, and this book is based on a series of author interviews with her and comprehensive research in other sources.
Journal
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Author : Helicopter Association of Great Britain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Journal written by Helicopter Association of Great Britain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Helicopters categories.
American Helicopter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
American Helicopter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Helicopters categories.
Air Force Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Air Force Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Aeronautics categories.
Helicopter Statistics On Production Operations Performance Notes On Market Prospects And A Survey Of Results To Date
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Author : Aviation Studies (International) ltd., London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Helicopter Statistics On Production Operations Performance Notes On Market Prospects And A Survey Of Results To Date written by Aviation Studies (International) ltd., London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Helicopters categories.
Harry Truman S Excellent Adventure
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Author : Matthew Algeo
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2011
Harry Truman S Excellent Adventure written by Matthew Algeo and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.
James Clavell S Whirlwind
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Author : James Clavell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12
James Clavell S Whirlwind written by James Clavell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12 with categories.