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‘Because we have no other pilots at hand, this will be a good exercise for your firefighting capabilities.’ Guy Ericson as head of training was explaining to Fadil and his pilot group in the briefing room at Redhill Aerodrome. ‘The film studio is paying Bristow Helicopters a lot of money for the hire of our services. The director wants everything to run smoothly so we have to give them value for money. Over in our fire training area, the film people will be building a mock-up of the Wimbledon centre court seating while using mannequin’s for the crowd scene. You will be required to fly over them and release aviation fuel from hanging buckets, then set fire to the mannequin’s by dropping flares. Also they want the same stunt carried out with live people over the real Wimble
