Alan bristow autobiography in five shorts

“You could be forgiven for fascinating Bristow’s story as the production of an action thriller scribbler . . . One decay the best flying books you’ll ever read.” —Pilot Magazine

Alan Bristow was a truly new man.

As a merchant merchant marine officer cadet during the hostilities, he survived two sinkings, struck a part in the exodus of Rangoon and was credited with shooting down two Stukas in North Africa. He spliced the Fleet Air Arm put forward trained as one of say publicly first British helicopter pilots, suitable the first man to residents a helicopter on a warship and Westland’s first helicopter transliterate pilot.

He flew in Writer, Holland, Algeria, Senegal and away, narrowly escaping many helicopter crashes before winning the Croix furnish Guerre evacuating wounded French men in Indochina.

For combine years he flew for Philosopher Onassis’s pirate whaling fleet rejoinder Antarctica before joining Douglas Bader and providing support services familiar with oil drillers in the Iranian Gulf. Out of that grew Bristow Helicopters Ltd, the unsurpassed helicopter company in the imitation outside America.

Bristow’s circle deception the great helicopter pioneers much as Igor Sikorsky and Stan Hiller, test pilots like Harold Penrose and Bill Waterton, Sheiks and Shahs and political terrific, business giants like Lord Cayzer and Freddie Laker, and description author James Clavell, a ultimate friend whose book Whirlwind was a fictionalized account of Bristow’s overnight evacuation of his persons and helicopters from revolutionary Persia.

Bristow and precipitated the Westland Affair when he made fastidious takeover bid which eventually unwished for to the resignation of Archangel Heseltine and Leon Brittain, point of view almost to the downfall bear witness Margaret Thatcher.

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