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On 8th April 2006 G-ATBZ, was despatched to Salzburg in Austria, to appear, inverted,?on the Residenzplatz. On loan from The Museum, as "A Helicopter in a Public Space", it was Paola Pivi's contribution to Kontracom06, a contemporary arts festival which ran from 12th May until 16th July 2006. The event coincided with celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the birth, in Salzburg, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
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G-ATBZ was first taken, by road, to Wels in Upper Austria. There it was cleaned and repainted, to remove the effects of years of weathering in the open air. On 8th May the? over-turning operation was rehearsed successfully and the machine was brought into Salzburg, very early in the morning of 10th May. Using two large mobile cranes it was inverted again and secured to previously prepared anchors, which had been sunk into the paving of the Residenzplatz. The four main rotor blades were then?attached to the rotorhead and laid out on the pavement.?
Following the end of Kontracom06 the Wessex was transported back to The Helicopter Museum where it arrived and was unloaded on 20th July. |
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Thanks to Schoenswetter (flickr.com) for this photograph |
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This page is part of a feature marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of Bristow Helicopters in 1953. |
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