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Thanks again Steve for looking and leaving positive feedback.Cheers hinee.:)I still cant believe at how many posts you’ve sent the site,you must have been here at the begining or close on.

Great shots John..lovely and clear

Further to my last post here, today I grabbed a quick conversation with one of the ‘NHV helicopters’ crew members (see johns 8th photo in this thread) who have at least one helicopter based here all the time, they are linked with the Aeronova flights in association with local operator Skydrift, it seems the flights do carry gas rig crews, who are taken off shore by NHV and connect with the Aeronova charter at NWI, often having to hang around for some time as one Metro can carry more than one helicopter load !!
And most of the flights are to and from Ostend although Amsterdam is used at times ??
I hope this helps explain a little …. :rolleyes:

Keith.

Hi Keith….No problem in answering some questions ref the the metro’s movements so thanks .Your info on civvy stuff is pretty reliable and mine isn’t very good to say the least.It did make me smile to see how far the name confusion has gone .

Your other new stuff was pretty good(very good) Keith.Thanks….john:)

According to someone I have spoken to, they operate a charter flight to AMS, and I also know that they operate a similar flight to/from Lydd in Kent.;)

cloud 9. I hope John doesn’t mind my butting in on his thread ? The Aeronova Metro’s seem to be here often, possibly weekly ? there was one here today ! I thought I heard some time ago that it was involved with export of day old chicks, but have later heard that it is connected with rig crew transport ?? someone told me that it connects with the arrival of one of the many helicopters serving the offshore gas production rigs etc ??
This is all speculation and hearsay at the moment ….. more research needed when I see the ‘man in the know’

Keith.

Question for Keith and/or The “Eh” Team…

Any ideas what the Aeronova Metroliner is/was doing, everytime you guys post pictures up here I see one of their aircraft, and just wonder what it does at NWI, is it based there or does it have maintainence done on it there?

Great photos btw, thanks for sharing.:)

Well spotted Aileron and welcome to the forum, we look forward to your input ! You have reminded me I took this photo a few days ago just for my friend Interflug62M He gets mixed up with names at times !!:D:D

Keith.

Keith, as someone who normally finds helicopters as about as interesting as a packet of fish fingers, these images stopped me in my tracks….they’re great and well done. BTW what’s the reg on the UK F27 behind that first Bristow?

Hi Interflug

The f27 is G-BHMY

Regards

Hi Again….To you Interflug62m and as the youth of today say,”No problem” as little errors like that easily happen.I did notice you mentioning you had some dealings with Air UK and it interested me.

They used Newcastle a lot and one of my jobs back in mid 70s while working for Servisair at N/cle was to supply generator power clean them on turn around and do chocks and what not.Things seem to go and come so quickly its only when you see them in a museum do you stop and reflect.

Jim Denyer was the outgoing manager at N/cle at the time an ex Mosquito pilot and I just think of the photo opportunities I now missed as I wasnt interested in photography at the time.Still nice to talk to you and hash up the past a bit.Cheers….:)

Thanks for the info John and my apologies for calling you Keith……not that there’s anything wrong with Keith…..aw I’m gonna stop digging;)

Hello Interflug….Thanks for the positive remarks about the helicopter pics and I think the reg of the F27 is G BMMT.I often bump into Keith up at Norwich and am pretty sure he’ll have a quiet smile about your remark….Cheers..JohnB.;):)

Keith, as someone who normally finds helicopters as about as interesting as a packet of fish fingers, these images stopped me in my tracks….they’re great and well done. BTW what’s the reg on the UK F27 behind that first Bristow?

Oh “Eh” I like the first Bristow, I love how the colour scheme blends over to the museum Air UK tailplane, a red, white, blue thing 😉
And the same for the last photo of the same aircraft hover taxying up the runway ! nice little hand out of the DV window ! It’s all down to details ????

Keith.

🙂

Cheers Rab….just as a point of interest the last 3 were taken with a 3 mega pic is-si Canon compact and still beats my 8 mega pics for clarity.Its all beyond me but choose a Canon “is” compact if you have a choice.

You might have to charge the double A batteries more than you like but the trade off is the picture quality is second to none.See Ya cheers.:)

Very nice work Congrats
Rab5869

A couple for civilspotter to look at from 2005 and my visit was not long after the “Uiver” had its mishap at some small airshow in North Holland.I was informed and dont know if it was a reliable source that the incident was because of a prop strike. 🙂

Nothing wrong with supporting your local. Nice to see a PA-23 out and about, there are not many left this side of the pond I reckon.

Thanks one and all for looking and giving such a positive relpy, it felt like I’d won the jackpot on a one armed bandit getting some feedback so quickly.Yes I guess Keith and I both like our local but Cambridge is a bit of a hike on a regular basis.

I’ll try and get some photos from a trip I made in 05 to Den Helder,”EC” but every time I try to get the C.D to upload it makes everything freeze.:confused:I took the ramp one Keith when the French Alpha’s arrived on Wednesday pre the show.Regards and thanks to you all again.:)