Heli-Expo 2011: Striving for Zero Blemishes, Bristow Hones Its Image
Anyone who has flown aboard a helicopter in support of oil and gas exploration knows that this form of flying ranks among the more exhilarating ways of tra
Anyone who has flown aboard a helicopter in support of oil and gas exploration knows that this form of flying ranks among the more exhilarating ways of traveling to work.
At its best, this airborne “commute” happens in an environment of well-practiced, well-regulated and predictable routine. All too often in the real world, it is also an environment ripe with opportunity for things to go wrong in the form of weather, hostile regional politics or mechanical surprises in complex flying machines. The very nature of their unusual abilities puts helicopters in harm’s way as a matter of course, so the challenges of shooting for perfection are arguably more daunting here than anywhere else in commercial aviation.
