All posts by: "Adrian Nance"

  1. Reconnaissance – in Mozambique – 2008

    Why not check out the video of our flying reconnaissance on You Tube? If you are interested in the back story, then please read on……

  2. Mozambican HQ – Wings’ first foreign base – 2008

    We have always wanted to make fast disaster responses.  So, to make sure we needed a Mozambican HQ. Why Mozambique? Well we did lost of…

  3. Important to the needy? A helicopter!

    Important – what is important and to whom? Well you may think that building disaster response around helicopters is just boys with toys. This photo…

  4. 2007 – Under-slung or internal loads?

    Under-slung loads can be quicker for the helicopter on short trips, provided the ground staff can prepare the loads and someone can recover the nets…

  5. A good ground crew – 2007

    A good ground crew is essential to flexible and efficient helicopter operations. Surely we only need a pilot and helicopter! Well, no!  Wings’ ground staff…

  6. Pilot Bob Gillan giving aid to the needy – 2007

    Pilot Bob Gillan of Hope of the Nations is delivering non-food items. He is helping the needy on the Zambezi in 2007. Non-food items are…

  7. 2007 – Disaster response – the team

    Disaster response 2007 To help understand disaster response 2007, we will give a bit of background. A helicopter-based disaster response team is needed when people…

  8. Starting up – the first year

    Starting a new enterprise is exciting and rewarding. Adrian Nance felt called to help deliver helicopters faster to disasters.  It was when he was in…

  9. Luviair meets Wings – and we catch an up-draught

    In 2006, Adrian Nance met Nigel Watson the CEO of Luviair and HeliRiviera. It was another key moment in the life of Wings! On 31…

  10. Where to start?

    Where to start?  Well, start as you mean to go on, so they say.     You will recall how our initial interest was sparked.  It…