Team Geared Up

61 means nothing except that it comes after 60. Sikorsky just assigned model numbers (more or less) sequentially:

The 61 refers to the birth year of the model. The S92 which is replacing the S61 in the UK was announced in 1992 but not built until 1995. The N refers to nautical model.
I think the chopper in Bray was the Waterford(117) based one Robin? I stand to be corrected on all of above.
D

Diverman - you are probably right about 177. I was only speculating. Just really liked the top photo of the reflection in the helmet a lot!

And yes bingo - 1961 = S61N (or so MES pilot told me that day in Donabate!)

Apologies, ‘Romeo Charlie Golf’ is working out of Dublin as Rescue 116 at the moment. Usually it’s ‘Mike Echo Sierra’. Used it today on an incident.
DM

Hello, The call sign rescue 116 means it is on a rescue Mission .At all other times it will be called Mike Echo Sierra. Which means it is on exercise. Sligo s Hellicopter is called Charlie Xray Sierra Or Rescue 118 when it has been called out for an Emergency. Hope this is a help.

Cheers Alan!Yyou are correct on the day it would have been MES on the day, not 116 - but as Diverman says, it was 117 on on the day… is that GCE? http://blog.teamgearedup.com/2007/04/new-s61-rescue-helicopter-on-route-to-ireland.html

I wasn’t aware of the name for 118 CXS, where do the initials come from?

MES- Marine Emergency Services
GCE - Garda Costa nEireann

my uncle is john manning he retired from irish coast gaurd in june 2007! i think the job you all do is amazing.

lahinch sea rescue
best of luck to John Manning and family, also all the team who we have known at Shannon all these year .
A very busy team God Bless them all.
Tomsie.

Is that John Manning that was with the shannon and waterford unit as a winchman? If so ask him does he still have felix’s photo albums that Barry O Connor the pilot lent him that I lent to barry, lots of irish helicopters pics in them?
My e-mail is bolkow@aol.com

Congratulations.

Looking for contact details for Dave Carlon, ex-coy sargt, Air corps.with him in the army. Is now living and working around shannon

just got a photo of an R A F Sea King chopper been rescued after a breakdown at Snowden.
A Chinook chopper, winched it from a field and and took it 20 miles to its home base at Anglesey.
To Sullivan.

I have a video of it here :-)
http://llmrt.blogspot.com/2008/07/rescuing-rescuers.html

There is somebody out there to rescue everybody. AAA

My 7 year old son loves this helicopter and wrote to father christmas just after easter asking him for a model. I have been unable to find one .He told me last week father christmas never lets you down ! Does anyone know where i can get one?
A desperate parent

You could go to a model Shop and get an AIRFIX model Off an RAF Seaking/Sikorsky type helicopter. It is also available as a kit with a RNLI Severn Lifeboat included. It was brought out by the RNLI two yrs ago. Contact http://www.rnli.org.uk if you have trouble getting it. It might not be exactly the same but is very close.

Presuming you’re in Dublin you could try Marks Models on Hawkins street. http://www.marksmodels.com/ Reckon they could order you a S61 if they didn’t have it in stock. They have a shop in Cork too.

Stu