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A Sea King helicopter landing on HMCS Assiniboine (DDH 234); the beartrap is the small rectangle on the flight deck. Recover assist landing of a SH-60B helicopter with a RAST system. A helicopter hauldown and rapid securing device (HHRSD) or beartrap enables helicopters to land on and depart from smaller ships in a wide range of weather ...
The Bristol redesign with a larger wing and the more powerful engines was the Type 163 Buckingham. [1] It had gun installations in the nose, dorsal and ventral turrets. Generally conventional in appearance, one unusual feature was that the bomb-aimer/navigator was housed in a mid- fuselage ventral gondola, resembling those on the earlier German ...
HMCS Buckingham was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1954–1965. She was named for Buckingham, Quebec. She is considered a significant part of Canadian naval history as used for some early trials of helicopter landings on smaller escort vessels.
The King's Helicopter Flight [33] (TKHF) is part of the King's Private Secretary's Department of the Royal Household, and is tasked by the Royal Travel Office at Buckingham Palace. Known as The Queen's, or King's, Helicopter Flight it is based at RAF Odiham [34] and operates two Sikorsky S-76C++ helicopters, with the registrations G-XXEB [35 ...
The "FM" on the fuselage indicates this is a Buckingham AAF (Fort Myers) aircraft. A formation of four AT-6 aircraft wing their way along the Caloosahatchee River above east Fort Myers to the Buckingham Flexible Gunnery School's range over the Gulf of Mexico (ca 1945). The plane on the right carries the tow target.
68-18447 – N792HT operated by Helicopter Transport Services in Aurora, Oregon. [6] [7] 68-18455 – N9125M operated by Siller Helicopter in Yuba City, California. [8] [9] 68-18458 – N795HT operated by Helicopter Transport Services in Aurora, Oregon. [10] [11] CH-54B. 69-18463 – N720HT operated by Helicopter Transport Services in Aurora ...
The Bristol company's response to Air Ministry Specification T.13/43 [1] was the Type 166 which was based on the Buckingham with a new wider front fuselage to allow side-by-side seating for an instructor and trainee and room for a radio operator. All armament and armour and military equipment was also removed.
British International Helicopter Services (BIH), owned by Bristow Group, is a British-owned helicopter operator. It operates a fleet of ten helicopters covering search and rescue , offshore, defence, charter and flying training activities from its bases at Newquay Airport , Coventry Airport and RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands.