They crawled over the deck, hand over hand clutching the rope net, towards the helicopter. It had a drill ship hull and four diamond shaped floats, each underneath a 60-foot diameter leg. Unfortunately, I had entrusted my logbook to someone else to fill in my flights and, probably because the flight was in the early hours of the morning, I cannot find it, for certain, in the logbook.Article originally published in Esso Air World and reproduced here courtesy of ExxonMobil. It’s a very easy on the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often. British Airways (kurz BA) ist die nationale Fluggesellschaft des Vereinigten Königreichs mit Sitz in London und Basis auf dem Flughafen London Heathrow.Sie ist eine der weltgrößten Fluggesellschaften und Gründungsmitglied der Luftfahrtallianz oneworld.Zusammen mit Iberia und Vueling bildet sie die Holding International Airlines Group (IAG). The fight was started when our Canadian Electrician, got up to go to the restroom, as he had consumed several pints of beer. We had been in Norway and it was being towed to a Shell UK location. Don Huggett hoped to be there but was recovering from an operation. With the increase in helicopter traffic it became apparent that there was an ever growing danger of a mid-air collision between aircraft. My decision had a more altruistic side: BAH were recruiting new pilots at a great pace for the expansion in Shetland and it seemed rather inappropriate not to have someone with S61N experience permanently present on the base. The Shetland Isles consist of hundreds of islands with the largest, known as Mainland, some 70 miles in length in an inverted “L” shape. Make offer - Picture Postcard~ BRITISH AIRWAYS BV234 HELICOPTER G-BJAC [CHARLES SKILTON] Picture Postcard, British … Thanks for your kind comment on the blog. To BEA. Think of the Staflo and Sedneth 2 which were of the same vintage, also at 60 foot draft, but with 20 columns and four hulls, and lots of diagonal bracing. Yes – Shetland was different – could be breathtaking in its scenery but a terrible place for wind – the long summer days and the short winter nights. Although we had landed into wind in the lee of the rig superstructure, I was amazed to see the needle of the airspeed indicator vibrating at 82 knots! This had been welded up. It is well worth a read, particularly as it provides some details on the problems facing our customers, the oil exploration industry and the formidable challenges they faced and continue to face in operating in extreme weather.These were provided by Christopher Samson, a fellow member of our local Jaguar Enthusiasts Club who worked as a geologist for many years in support of the oil industry.This article gives an oil company perspective and rig details which can be read in conjunction with the previous section “Flying in “extreme” weather conditions”This describes the rescue of the skeleton crew of the Transocean III. Later on, I visited it in about 1976 when I was working in London on the North Cormorant platform design.After the TO3 sank the diamond shaped float and leg which broke off floated round the North Sea for several weeks, and must be mentioned in Admiralty “Notices to Mariners”. In the height of its development, it had over a dozen S61N aircraft operated by BAH and, in addition, the Bristow fleet.The operational procedure on all flights was to give a position report every 10 minutes. Extra accommodation, of a less desirable nature, was fabricated in some of the main hull ballast tanks. The most extreme conditions I have ever experienced were, if memory and logbook serve me right, in January 1974.
They were very warm and cheap to heat and had the added advantage of being in walking distance of the airfield. I visited Jock Cameron at Gatwick and offered to be Manager for the Shetland operation. Fortunately for us the centre of the deep depression, which was causing the extreme wind speeds, was moving rapidly and with this movement the direction of the wind was also changing. The cracks started at the weld. Suche nach Flugtickets, 728 Fluggesellschaften, die führende авиакассам und die besten Preise für Flüge. A later report for the Department of Energy concluded that the failure was caused by the inadequate performance of rings of wedges which were used to transmit bending movements between columns and cross-girders (location not mentioned, presumably on the legs – editor).The Times (UK): 02 Jan 1974 ‘North Sea rig sinks after crew taken off’A good article which sums up the start of BEAH/BAH in the ShetlandsI’m really enjoying the design and layout of your blog. The crew were transferred to the nearby Transworld 61 and Transworld 58 rigs. The rig had left the Shipyard in Japan and gone to South Africa; I think on the Mussel Bay prospect. It was the floating production unit for the Argyle field for Hamilton Brothers, which produced the first oil in the UK sector. Transworld 61 was anchored nearby. I hope this finds you and your family well.
Best regards Bill AshpoleBill, one of the above is from December 2017. Just as I lowered the lever we heard the unmistakable sound of a jet turbine stalling. There was a distinct danger that debris from the rig, such as the massive legs, would drift towards other rigs in the area. All the best for 2019. Exxon were partners with us offshore UK. Dieter, who had met a couple of weeks earlier in Stavanger, and myself became good friends and professional colleagues and worked together on numerous projects until he retired in 1986.For the technically minded. I wanted to obtain a synoptic chart from the Met office depicting the isobars that night. TO3 anchored up and then cracks developed in a tubular bracing. The unit operated timetabled mail services in East Anglia during 1948 using their Sikorsky S-51s. Harvey Pole was the Station Engineer for BAH and he and his team of stalwarts performed miracles in keeping the initial S61N flying in spite of the cold, the wet and the wind and later as the fleet of aircraft grew until Sumburgh was the biggest base in the company. We then towed the rig onto location in the middle of St George’s Channel, where it drilled one well before going to Mobil Beryl, where you landed on it.After much prodding the Transocean Rig Manager, Bob Deharsh, and Larry Kulman, the designer, told us the previous history of the rig.
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