Author archive for Jerry Grayson

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    10th Feb 1980

    Initial Information
    From MRCC Brixham to Culdrose y VHF Ch 0 at 0900.
    Request helo assistance to search for man overboard…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    25th Jan 1979

    Initial Information
    From Falmouth MRCC to Culdrose. Request helo scramble to 156 degrees Mevagissey 6 miles.
    Crewman on board FV AQILLA…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    18th Jan 1979

    Initial Information
    From Landsend Coastguard to Culdrose by telephone.
    Report received from French trawler CHARCOT, approaching Newlyn
    “Crewmember is coughing blood. In…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    Wessex HU5 – XS 481

    Today at : South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum.

    Explosions below, fighter jets above, and with smoke pouring out of the cockpit…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    Blog Post #3

    OMG it’s real, the book just came back from the printers and Jonathan Eyers at Bloomsbury who has steered…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    Wessex HU5 – XT 467

    Today at : Gunsmoke Paintball, Hadleigh. Suffolk, UK.

    The first Wessex HU5 I ever flew, and the aircraft I used…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    Blog Post #2

    This week’s video – I just had to share this wonderful British Pathe newsreel of Search and Rescue in…

    By Jerry Grayson
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    Blog Post #1

    In 1953 the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm began its first dedicated Search and Rescue (SAR) squadron. This year…

    By Jerry Grayson