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100 1  Bristow, Alan|4aut 
245 10 Alan Bristow: Helicopter Pioneer|h[Elektronisk resurs] /
       |cAlan Bristow 
264  1 |bPen and Sword,|c2022 
300    384 sidor 
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520    Alan Bristow, founder of Bristow Helicopters, died on 
       April 26, 2009, seven days after completing his 
       autobiography. He was a truly remarkable man; his full-
       page obituary was published in The Times and The Daily 
       Telegraph. As a merchant navy officer cadet during the war
       Bristow survived two sinkings, played a part in the 
       evacuation of Rangoon and was credited with shooting down 
       two Stukas in North Africa. He joined the Fleet Air Arm 
       and trained as one of the first British helicopter pilots,
       he was the first man to land a helicopter on a battleship 
       and became Westland’s first helicopter test pilot. 
       Sacked for knocking out the sales manager, he flew in 
       France, Holland, Algeria, Senegal and elsewhere, narrowly 
       escaping many helicopter crashes before winning the Croix 
       de Guerre evacuating wounded French soldiers in Indochina.
       For four years he flew for Aristotle Onassis’s 
       pirate whaling fleet in Antarctica before joining Douglas 
       Bader and providing support services to oil drillers in 
       the Persian Gulf. Out of that grew Bristow Helicopters Ltd,
       the largest helicopter company in the world outside 
       AmericaBristow’s circle included the great 
       helicopter pioneers such as Igor Sikorsky and Stan Hiller,
       test pilots like Harold Penrose and Bill Waterton, Sheiks 
       and Shahs and political leaders, business giants like Lord
       Cayzer and Freddie Laker – with whom he tossed a 
       coin for £67,000 in 1969 – and the author 
       James Clavell, a lifelong friend whose book 'Whirlwind' 
       was a fictionalized account of Bristow’s overnight 
       evacuation of his people and helicopters from 
       revolutionary Iran. Bristow represented Great Britain at 
       four in hand carriage driving with the Duke of Edinburgh 
       and precipitated the ‘Westland Affair’ when he
       made a takeover bid which eventually led to the 
       resignation of Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittain, and 
       almost to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher. [Elib] 
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655  4 Historia 
655  4 Memoarer & Biografier 
655  4 Samhälle & politik 
700 1  Malone, Patrick|4aut 
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