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The Independent Operator and the Helicopter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2023

Ivor Jones Rees
Ivor Jones Rees*
Affiliation:
Airwork Ltd
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Summary

The paper describes some of the overseas operations which have been conducted by AIRWORK LIMITED in the last eight years and in places ranging from South America via the Middle East to New Zealand It examines some of the problems that have to be faced by an overseas operator, and suggests the possibility of using helicopters for certain of the work which is now earned out by fixed wing aircraft It concludes that providing certain conditions as to performance and operating cost can be met there is a definite place for the helicopter in such overseas operations

Type
Ordinary Meeting, 6th November, 1953
Information
The Journal of the Helicopter Association of Great Britain , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , January 1954 , pp. 135 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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Footnotes

I wish to record my thanks to the Board of Airwork Limited for permission to present this paper and to Mr Lafonl Manager of the Overseas Division of the Company without whose ready help much of the matter would not have been available Any opinions given in the paper are of course my own and not necessarily those of Airwork Limited