Just one of those things I guess.

Some helicopters, S61 for example you board from the right side – there are only emergency exits on the left hand side of the aircraft. The BV234 was the same, main entrance on the right side, although you could board via the ramp, at the rear. Most other helicopters you can board on either side, left or right.

Like Whiskey Delta, I suspect its related to which side the Captain sits, fixed wing on the left, helicopters on the right.

Well, there we go then, wonder who that could be for!?! 😉

Well our mob were down there today for the demo, however the rumours doing the rounds as to who would be the likely recipient, would raise some eyebrows!!!

Although totally illogical nowadays, it did happen.

I’ve posted this before, but circa 15 years ago, whilst following a long standing ‘local rumour’ of aircraft being pushed into a Loch around 1945/46, we literally walked into a pile of very substantial aircraft parts, before getting anyway near the water’s edge.

Judging by the bent and twisted wing spares, it was suspected that a number of airframes were bulldozed into a pile and buried/set alight. The absence of aluminium strengthened the ‘set alight’ theory, although we found a few parts, that were half buried, in remarkably good condition. Amazingly the wing folding mechanisms, whilst corroded solid, the steel parts were still as clean as the day they left the factory.

A national musuem were very interested in the site, but the costs and location, mean’t that it was very unlikely that anything would be excavated.