Helicopter Dispensary
This is the third and last in a series of images taken at unknowns location up-country in Brunei in September/October 1968.
It shows AMDB-106, one of the two Sikorsky (Westland) WS-58 Wessex HAS Mk. 54s delivered in January 1967 to the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment's Air Wing (later Helicopter Platoon), the forerunner of today's Royal Brunei Air Force.
It was a modified version of the British RAF's standard HC.2 troop carrier helicopter, which in turn was a modification of the original Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw. The Brunei Wessex helicopters were flown and maintained by seconded RAF personnel.
The man in the door of the helicopter was a pharmacist and was handing out medications to the people in the queue...
I'm not sure whether the helicopter's rear is truly very close to the water beyond or whether it is just the perspective giving that impression. However, I do know that many of the sites were basic and very limited in terms of space in which the helicopter could safely land.
As the location visited above is not noted in the material I have available, the map placing is entirely abritary. Scanned from a slide.
Helicopter Dispensary
This is the third and last in a series of images taken at unknowns location up-country in Brunei in September/October 1968.
It shows AMDB-106, one of the two Sikorsky (Westland) WS-58 Wessex HAS Mk. 54s delivered in January 1967 to the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment's Air Wing (later Helicopter Platoon), the forerunner of today's Royal Brunei Air Force.
It was a modified version of the British RAF's standard HC.2 troop carrier helicopter, which in turn was a modification of the original Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw. The Brunei Wessex helicopters were flown and maintained by seconded RAF personnel.
The man in the door of the helicopter was a pharmacist and was handing out medications to the people in the queue...
I'm not sure whether the helicopter's rear is truly very close to the water beyond or whether it is just the perspective giving that impression. However, I do know that many of the sites were basic and very limited in terms of space in which the helicopter could safely land.
As the location visited above is not noted in the material I have available, the map placing is entirely abritary. Scanned from a slide.