Sioux mounts a Scout!!!
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Resting at the mo taking in a little Golden Gargle prior to watching the Argies beat seven tricolours out of the Froggys, I suddenly realise that Bell Sioux you are all talking about must have mated well, for its offsprings must be the Gazzzzell except for the rear rotor ats almost the same profile.
Or is it the Golden Gargle that has clouded my view!.
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Or is it the Golden Gargle that has clouded my view!.
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almost certainly helimuster, perhaps Warnervale.
I believe many parts were bought and assmebled there for dispatch to where several very hard nosed '47 experts workerd at the biggest Bell 47 temple of all, at VRD in the northern Territory.
I have it on good authority that at their height at VRD they were doing 23,000 hours a year with 23 machines, and 23 line pilots, two or three slaves and four or five engineers.
They say there is nothing like the crackle of five or six or many more 435's bursting into detonation, simultaneously, just before dawn.
Those machines were either British Bell's or Indian Augustas. I heard that they once bought some tranmissions ex the Blue Angels, removed from service because of "intensive Flying". It's rumored the pilots had a good bit of fun trying to emulate this "intensive flying"? bit. And that was before Ray-bans came onto the scene. Lots of "tally-ho" and "bandits in the trees your six o'clock", etc etc.
Fair dinkum the xmon's ranged from 22 hours to something like 75 hours.
Yeah, probably just jealous because the poms have a chance to immortalise themselves tonight in the only game of sportsmanship worth talking about.
all the best
tet
almost certainly helimuster, perhaps Warnervale.
I believe many parts were bought and assmebled there for dispatch to where several very hard nosed '47 experts workerd at the biggest Bell 47 temple of all, at VRD in the northern Territory.
I have it on good authority that at their height at VRD they were doing 23,000 hours a year with 23 machines, and 23 line pilots, two or three slaves and four or five engineers.
They say there is nothing like the crackle of five or six or many more 435's bursting into detonation, simultaneously, just before dawn.
Those machines were either British Bell's or Indian Augustas. I heard that they once bought some tranmissions ex the Blue Angels, removed from service because of "intensive Flying". It's rumored the pilots had a good bit of fun trying to emulate this "intensive flying"? bit. And that was before Ray-bans came onto the scene. Lots of "tally-ho" and "bandits in the trees your six o'clock", etc etc.
Fair dinkum the xmon's ranged from 22 hours to something like 75 hours.
Yeah, probably just jealous because the poms have a chance to immortalise themselves tonight in the only game of sportsmanship worth talking about.
all the best
tet
