Wing Commander BRIE said that Mr BRISTOW had been connected with many aspects of helicopter development for a number of years He first learned to fly helicopters in 1944 at Floyd Bennett Field, U S A, and in 1946 was a helicopter test pilot with Westland Aircraft Ltd In 1948 he received the Royal Aero Club Silver Medal for the relief of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, and in 1949 the Croix de Guerre for jungle rescue in Indo China whilst he was Technical Manager and Chief Pilot with Hehcop-Air, Pans In 1950 he formed his own company, Air Whaling Ltd and pioneered the use of the helicopter for whaling m the Antarctic In 1955 he formed Bnstow Helicopters Ltd , and tonight we are to hear an account of the work being done by this Company in the Persian Gulf and the large part the helicopter plays in transporting men and materials from the mainland to the drilling rig fifty miles out in the Gulf

The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the Author, said that Dr ROBERTS was very well known by everybody in the helicopter field m this country and abroad He had taken his B Sc Engineering Degree at Queen Mary College and his Ph D at Imperial College He had served with General Aircraft Ltd, and had also been a lecturer at Imperial College Subsequent to this appointment he had been with Saunders-Roe as Chief Project Engineer (Helicopters), and was now on the staff of Fairey Aviation where initially he had been Chief Aerodynamicist and was now Chief Project Engineer Dr Roberts was a Founder Member and a member of the Council of the Association