Download or read book Alan Bristow Helicopter Pioneer written by Alan Bristow and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Download or read book Helicopter Heroine written by Charles Morgan Evans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Leading from the Front written by Andrew Healey and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book Vertical Horizons written by Douglas M. Grant and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking back over thirty years of flying for Okanagan, I see the experience has given me an interesting life. I have never really considered flying as work. It is more a way of life, a way of life that nourishes a free spirit, something that not many jobs can give you. I just cannot imagine anything I would... rather have done or any company I would have rather worked for." --Jim Reid, pilot In 1945, following years as an instructor, Carl Agar was honourably discharged from the British and Commonwealth Air Training Plan and moved to Penticton where he began looking for flying opportunities. A first attempt to start a flying club never took off but Agar and his partners Barney Bent and Alf Stringer were determined to get off the ground. They began looking at commercial ventures and in 1947 Okanagan Air Services (OAS) was formed to provide instruction and contract work. After a rough start--while demonstrating fruit spraying, Agar crashed a helicopter into power lines--the company got a break in May 1948 when the Fraser floods swamped the valley and OAS received a mosquito-spraying contract. From there the company flourished, going on to fly the first unaccompanied commercial helicopter ferry flight from Canada to the UK, monitor polar bears in the High Arctic, provide offshore oil rig support during monsoons, and, at the company's high point, operate in over 33 countries with 600 employees and 126 helicopters. Back home, Agar opened the Mountain Flying School in Penticton, which is still in operation today and has trained thousands of civilian and military pilots from all over the world. Vertical Horizons is also the story of the employees who were pivotal to the success of the company. Individuals' experiences range from tragic to humorous and include a UFO sighting in the Arctic, witnessing the Jonestown massacre and a rescue of Vietnamese refugees off the coast of Thailand. Featuring first-hand accounts, extensive research and a multitude of photographs, Vertical Horizons is the first-ever history of the company that pioneered flying high-mountain terrain--making it a must-read for any aviation buff.

Download or read book Harry Truman s Excellent Adventure written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book James Clavell s Whirlwind written by James Clavell and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voices from an Old Warrior written by Christopher J.B. Hoctor and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former USAF pilot Christopher Hoctor examines the history and safety record of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft.

Download or read book Rotary Wing Aircraft Handbooks and History The rotary wing industry written by Eugene K. Liberatore and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rotary Wing Industry written by Eugene K. Liberatore and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Innovators written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the lives and careers of the men and women responsible for the creation of the digital age, including Doug Englebart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and more.

Download or read book Office Based Infertility Practice written by David B. Seifer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of clinical reproductive medicine has practice in the era of managed care and coordinat gradually moved from its initial 1980-90 hospital ing ancillary offsite medical personnel. base to its present (circa 2001) office site of oper The objective of this text is to assist in this ongo ation. With this transition have been improvements ing endeavor by presenting in a clear, concise man in efficiency of practice often in response to ner many of the topics relevant to contemporary increased pressure to provide the most patient sat office-based infertility practice. The initial half of isfaction. An added challenge of office-based prac this text addresses topics which focus upon general tice has been taking on many of the responsibili concepts of infertility evaluation and practice. The ties of what had been traditionally the hospital's latter half is a practical approach to the execution domain. Some of these new responsibilities have of specific office-based infertility procedures. We included the ordering of operative supplies and hope this book will assist all medical personnel who equipment, the establishment of quality control dedicate their clinical effort in achieving what is programs, construction and maintenance of special most coveted by our patients, the birth of a healthy laboratory spaces, redesigning efficient methods of newborn. DAVID B. SEIFER, M. D. UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School ROBERT L. COLLINS, M. D. The Reproductive Center, Youngstown, Ohio October 2001 vii Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Evaluation of the Female for Infertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bryan D.

Download or read book Journal written by Helicopter Association of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Design and Engineering of Curiosity written by Emily Lakdawalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to the Curiosity mission explains the engineering behind every system on the rover, from its rocket-powered jetpack to its radioisotope thermoelectric generator to its fiendishly complex sample handling system. Its lavishly illustrated text explains how all the instruments work -- its cameras, spectrometers, sample-cooking oven, and weather station -- and describes the instruments' abilities and limitations. It tells you how the systems have functioned on Mars, and how scientists and engineers have worked around problems developed on a faraway planet: holey wheels and broken focus lasers. And it explains the grueling mission operations schedule that keeps the rover working day in and day out.

Download or read book International Directory of Company Histories written by Tina Grant and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This multi-volume series provides detailed histories of more than 7,000 of the most influential companies worldwide.

Download or read book Southwestern Desert Resources written by William L. Halvorson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southwestern deserts stretch from southeastern California to west Texas and then south to central Mexico. The landscape of this region is known as basin and range topography featuring to “sky islands” of forest rising from the desert lowlands which creates a uniquely diverse ecology. The region is further complicated by an international border, where governments have caused difficulties for many animal populations. This book puts a spotlight on individual research projects which are specific examples of work being done in the area and when they are all brought together, to shed a general light of understanding the biological and cultural resources of this vast region so that those same resources can be managed as effectively and efficiently as possible. The intent is to show that collaborative efforts among federal, state agency, university, and private sector researchers working with land managers, provides better science and better management than when scientists and land managers work independently.