Kent air ambulance crew flew. Medical search. Frequent questions

The Kent Air Ambulance was an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter air ambulance covering the county of Kent in South East England. (wikipedia.org)
The helicopter was funded by the Kent Air Ambulance Trust (under the operating name of the Kent Air Ambulance Fund), which was a registered charity, raising money from public and private donations in excess of £4m every year between Kent, Sussex and Surrey. (wikipedia.org)
The trust was founded by Kate Chivers (in whose honour the helicopter was named), and was originally called the South East Thames Air Ambulance. (wikipedia.org)
In March 2008, it was announced that the trust would be collaborating with Sussex Police to provide a night time rescue service utilising the Sussex Police Air Operations Unit helicopter, Hotel 900, which is equipped to fly at night. (wikipedia.org)
All three crew - the pilot, Graham Budden, and two paramedics, Tony Richardson and Mark Darby - were killed as the helicopter burst into flames on impact. (wikipedia.org)
The casualty was winched onboard the Lydd Coastguard helicopter and was taken to the top of the cliff where he was transferred into the care of the Air Ambulance for onward transfer to hospital. (kentlive.news)
Deal and Langdon Coastguard Rescue Teams, Walmer RNLI inshore lifeboat, Lydd Coastguard helicopter are all on scene, alongside Kent Police, Kent Fire and Rescue, an Air Ambulance and the South East Coastguard Ambulance service. (kentlive.news)
David Curnock thought he would never be able to thank the crew of the UH-1 "Huey" helicopter that flew him out of the jungles of Vietnam after he sustained a life-threatening injury. (vietnamdustoff.com)
That others may live," was the slogan of the UH-1 Dustoff helicopter crews. (vietnamdustoff.com)
The UH-1 Dustoff helicopter crews flew a total of 496,573 missions and extracted 900,000 patients during the war, half of which were Americans. (vietnamdustoff.com)
Epstein said he sprang into action and flew his personal helicopter filled with aid supplies from New Jersey to Haiti and back three times over the following year and a half. (herofoundationusa.org)
That sum includes the 2m raised by London Freemasons to purchase a new helicopter for London Air Ambulance. (pprune.org)
A technique known as 'HETS' (human external transport) was used to fly a rescuer in to the subject using a line suspended below the helicopter. (coastbackcountry.com)
The patient was transferred to a second helicopter and then flown to a waiting BC ambulance in the Rubble Creek parking lot. (coastbackcountry.com)
Police helicopter called in to help The National Police Air Service were also in attendance this morning. (francescagrati.com)
Puzanoskis shone a laser at the crew of a police helicopter from NPAS Husbands Bosworth whilst it was in flight over Northampton having earlier supported officers from Northamptonshire Police in their search for a high-risk missing person. (francescagrati.com)
During transport, the hiker was hanging by a tether about 150 feet below the helicopter as it flew about 40 mph. (gunassociation.org)

The service was operated by the Kent Air Ambulance Trust, a registered charity established in 1989. (wikipedia.org)

The soldier and pilot were in Dover being honored by the Kent County Chapter 850 Vietnam Veterans of America organization at a special ceremony for 43 pilots, crew members and medics who flew thousands of rescue missions in Vietnam. (vietnamdustoff.com)
On this particular hot day, with temperatures reaching 93 degrees, Ingersoll and other flight crew members worked diligently exchanging cargo under the sweltering heat with members of HERO Client Rescue. (herofoundationusa.org)
It is a professional paramedic and rescue service that will provide a 24-hour multi-lingual call center dispatch, rapid response medical services, security, ambulance transport, remote rescue and international evacuation services for individuals, corporations, governments and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Haiti. (herofoundationusa.org)
When emergencies happen in the U.S., the sirens of fire trucks and ambulances coming to the rescue can be comforting. (af.mil)
Ken Twigg, a DPS pilot with 10 years experience, said he has to be aware of many elements, like wind, temperature, and elevation, to accomplish a safe rescue in mountainous terrain. (gunassociation.org)
Twigg said he flew the man six miles to the northeast, where search-and-rescue volunteers and the deputies from the Gila County Sheriff's Office were waiting with an ambulance to take the hiker to a Payson hospital. (gunassociation.org)

It now operates as Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex. (wikipedia.org)
This newer service operated as the Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance. (wikipedia.org)
Ambulance crews attended and were joined at the scene by the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance Service. (kentlive.news)
Wales Air Ambulance, Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, London Air Ambulance, Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust, and Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. (lincolnshireworld.com)
How long have you worked for Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS)? (airmedandrescue.com)
I want to Gift Aid my donation and any donations I make in the future or have made in the past 4 years to the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust. (aakss.org.uk)
You can also donate by filling out this form and sending it to us, either [email protected] or post to: FREEPOST Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (no stamp or other address details required). (aakss.org.uk)

Police, fire crews, paramedics, an air ambulance and the coastguard are at the bottom of a cliff near Dover. (kentlive.news)

The University of Glasgow memorial site records that he was flying in close formation over the Firth of Tay when his aircraft came into contact with another and both crashed, with fatal results to the occupants. (madeinperth.org)
The aeroplane Arthur was reported at the time as flying in was a Miles Master two-seater training aircraft. (madeinperth.org)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- As a gray aircraft emerged from the scattered clouds ready to land on the steaming runway at Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport in Tabarre, near Port-au-Prince, Kathy Cadden, Operation Ukraine president and founder, looked to the sky and said, 'Thank God for the U.S. Air Force! (herofoundationusa.org)
The aerial training would have consisted of a series of air experience flights in De Havilland Dominie aircraft operated by the "Yatesbury Wireless Flight", piloted by civilian employees of the Bristol Aircraft Company. (historyfare.co.uk)
lt;br>They left Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory on Sept. 13, with two Marine Corps V-22 Osprey tilt-rotors and one KC-130J refueling aircraft departing for Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley in Queensland. (siliconinvestor.com)
Below a Wellington painted white like the ambulance aircraft of AAI. (blogspot.com)

Chris has just retired from flying - for the second time, as he first retired aged 60 in 2018 in line with single pilot HEMS rules, however, he was not ready to stop work and trained to fly dual pilot operations to extend his flying career. (lincolnshireworld.com)
Elected in 2011, McNaughton serves as the MPP for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex and was appointed as infrastructure minister in 2018. (ctvnews.ca)

Initially operated on a part-time basis, the air ambulance became a seven-day service in January 2000 and shortly afterwards moved from its original Rochester Airport base to Marden near Maidstone. (wikipedia.org)
The service flew over 12,000 missions since its inception. (wikipedia.org)
A South East Coast Ambulance Service spokesman said: 'At 11.57am today we were called to a patient halfway down the cliff at St Margaret's Bay after his parachute failed in a base jump. (kentlive.news)
Ambulance teams attended and were joined at the scene by the air ambulance service. (kentlive.news)
A spokesperson from the South East Coast Ambulance Service said: 'I can confirm that SECAmb was called at approximately 7.25am today to reports of an RTC involving a vehicle and a motorbike on Hartley Road, Cranbrook. (kentlive.news)
Officers and South East Coast Ambulance Service attended the scene where the motorcyclist was treated for serious injuries. (kentlive.news)
After a period serving in the Australian Army Infantry, he came to the UK and joined the Army Air Corps in 1983, and became a HEMS pilot, first flying with Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS), then the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) before joining LNAA. (lincolnshireworld.com)
An air ambulance service offers a shimmer of hope, but when a Soviet fighter brings down a British passenger liner, Berlin becomes a flashpoint. (blogspot.com)
With this service, patients are getting the air medical help required at any time and any where. (airborneprivatejet.com)
As already mentioned, its the Duke of Kent, his father being killed in RAF service in 1942 in the crash of a Short Sunderland in Scotland. (pprune.org)
In October 2013, it was replaced by the National Police Air Service (NPAS). (francescagrati.com)

Testing of Upkeep began in December 1942 when a Vickers Wellington flying from RAF Warmwell dropped an inert prototype at Chesil Beach in Dorset. (globalaviationresource.com)
Chatham-Kent fire crews attended a house fire at 127 Wellington St. E. around 3:30 a.m. Sept. 16, 2023. (ctvnews.ca)
Chatham-Kent fire crews attended a house fire on Wellington Street East around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. (ctvnews.ca)

Cadden, who makes it known that she places God first in her life, was one of several humanitarians on hand to greet the 15 flight crew members aboard the C-17 Globemaster III. (herofoundationusa.org)
Thanks to a C-17 Globemaster III crew from Travis Air Force Base, California, indigenous Mayans in Tecpan, Guatemala, will now hear that same sound of hope and help. (af.mil)

On 19 February 2004, following a civil case brought by the pilot's widow to the High Court in Manchester, it was ruled that the crash was caused by mechanical failure not, as had been suggested, flying low for fun, and ordered compensation to be paid. (wikipedia.org)
A memorial to the crew is located at the Blue Bell Hill picnic site, close to the scene of the crash. (wikipedia.org)
Crews were called to reports that a motorcycle had been involved in a crash with a vehicle on Hartley Road - between the B2085 Glassenbury Road and High Street. (kentlive.news)
Crash crews combed the fields for survivors, human remains were collected in blankets and taken to a waiting ambulance. (glatton.org.uk)

Arthur is listed as being part of 9 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit and, at this stage of WW2, his training (after having received his wings) could have been expected to last 4 - 6 weeks. (madeinperth.org)
F-35 Lightning II pilots from Hill Air Force Base began flying routine four-ship combat training missions at the Utah Test and Training Range in the west desert May 2. (af.mil)

The greatest pinnacle of achievement comes from flying dustoff," said keynote speaker Lt. Col. (Ret) Steven D. Vermilion, president of the Vietnam Dustoff Association, who flew 1,450 combat missions and evacuated more than 2,200 patients. (vietnamdustoff.com)
It was truly an honor to fly the missions and save people like Joe. (vietnamdustoff.com)
Larry Kipp, who graduated from Brandywine High School and now lives in Lawrence, Kansas, was a medic in Vietnam who flew more than 2,100 combat missions. (vietnamdustoff.com)

A number of eyewitnesses have told Kent Live that a BASE jumper was seen falling from the cliff this afternoon. (kentlive.news)
An ambulance crew attended King Ethelbert School following reports a girl had injured her arm in the accident this afternoon. (theisleofthanetnews.com)

Epstein has been flying helicopters and airplanes for approximately 30 years. (herofoundationusa.org)

Flight Options got spun off and sold back to its founder, Ken Ricci for a song. (magellanjets.com)

The flight crew, collectively representing the 514th Air Mobility Wing, arrived in Haiti on Oct. 11 to deliver an ambulance, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid made possible through the Denton Cargo program. (herofoundationusa.org)
The "Dove's View" or humanitarian plot line uses the device of "Air Ambulance International" (AAI) to expose the reader to the state of Berlin's hospitals, and as the series progresses, will also give the reader insight into the impact of undernourishment and mass rape on children. (blogspot.com)

Miss Ida was an American B-17 'Flying Fortress' serial number 44-8152 stationed at RAF Glatton (Conington) which was built by the 809th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the U.S. Army in the last months of 1942. (glatton.org.uk)

Squadron Leader (Pilot) 33574, 605 Squadron, Royal Air Force. (roll-of-honour.com)
Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance (LNAA) pilot, Captain Chris Attrill, has been shortlisted for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Air Ambulances UK 'Awards of Excellence' in recognition of his contribution to the air ambulance charity sector during his illustrious HEMS career. (lincolnshireworld.com)
A Battle of Britain ace, a female air traffic controller, a concentration camp survivor and an ex-ATA woman pilot are just some of those trying to find their place in the post-war world. (blogspot.com)
This is the story of just one bomber pilot, his crew and the woman he loved. (blogspot.com)

The patient was found conscious and breathing and has been flown by the air ambulance to Kings College Hospital in London for treatment. (kentlive.news)
The motorcyclist was assessed and treated at the scene before being flown to a hospital in London for further care. (kentlive.news)
He was taken to a London hospital for further medical attention by the air ambulance. (kentlive.news)
The latter is what prompted Englewood Hospital and Medical Center to donate a 2006 Ambulance along with assorted medical supplies, such as gloves, masks and bandages. (herofoundationusa.org)
One of them was seriously ill and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. (andalucia.com)
A child has been flown to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford following a sports accident at King Ethelbert School in Birchington. (theisleofthanetnews.com)
The ambulance crew was joined at the scene by the air ambulance and the child was treated before being airlifted to William Harvey Hospital. (theisleofthanetnews.com)

70 years on from the day itself, the Royal Air Force will commemorate Operation Chastise with a series of flypasts. (globalaviationresource.com)

After successfully finishing his course in air gunnery, he was next assigned to No 16 Operational Training Unit at RAF Upper Heyford on 18th May 1940 for the final part of his training before qualifying as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner (WOp/AG). (historyfare.co.uk)

5 a month could pay for a set of fire retardant undergarments for a crew member to wear under their uniform, which helps protect them at accident scenes. (aakss.org.uk)

Kent Air Ambulance Trust. (wikipedia.org)

Coastguard are also at the scene alongside police, firefighters and ambulance crews. (kentlive.news)
A spokesperson for Kent Police has said: 'Kent Police was called at 7.30am on Thursday 25 May to a collision involving a car and a motorcycle in Hartley Road, Cranbrook at its junction with Farmer's Lane. (kentlive.news)
The East Midlands Air Support Unit was a joint consortium established to provide police aviation for Leicestershire Constabulary, Northamptonshire Police and Warwickshire Police. (francescagrati.com)

Walter John Coy on stone memorial,listed a James COY on CWGC] Sergeant 528782, Royal Air Force. (roll-of-honour.com)
The UH-1 Huey on display at the Kent County Veterans Memorial Park serves as an ongoing reminder of the heroism of the 43 men honored Saturday and others all across the United States who served in air ambulance companies. (vietnamdustoff.com)

So "Air Ambulance International Ltd" was launched. (blogspot.com)

Kent News. (wikipedia.org)

Also for the backroom boys and girls who support the flying and maintain the equipment, and without whom nothing would ever leave the ground. (pprune.org)

During the air experience flights, John would have been introduced to radio receiver training consisting of sending and receiving messages from base and practicing the art of transmitter tuning by calibration and back tuning to the transmitter. (historyfare.co.uk)
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As it approached to the northeast, that introduction of dry air was actually the first sign that it was transitioning from a fully tropical hurricane into what was later known as the superstorm. (phillymag.com)

On the 15th August 1939, just 3 weeks before Britain declares war on Germany, John aged only 17 enlists in the Royal Air Force on a 6 year engagement. (historyfare.co.uk)
Once qualified, he joined Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance, flying until August of this year. (lincolnshireworld.com)

John, although a V.C. winner, is so typical of many veterans that I have come across in my career with the Royal Air Force and also in my time as a welfare caseworker with the Royal Air Forces Association, the charity that supports the RAF Family. (historyfare.co.uk)

We have significant transport distances to reach specialist major trauma centers, so night flying made sense for our patient population. (airmedandrescue.com)
The United States Eighth Air Force, based at many airfields in central, eastern and southern England, and the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, complemented the RAF Bomber Command's night-time area bombing in the Combined Bomber Offensive to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for the invasion of France in 1944. (glatton.org.uk)
It's very loud and it sounds like it's going from the north to the south but there is absolutely nothing flying above you on a clear-night sky and it makes a very strange sound. (henney.com)

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Chris was part of the team that responded to the 2006 Dreamspace Disaster in Chester-le-Street, where a giant inflatable broke free from its moorings and flipped into the air, trapping people inside, and was also a member of the YAA crew responding to the Cumbria shootings in 2010, when gunman Derrick Bird killed 12 people and injured 11 others. (lincolnshireworld.com)
The evening began with the presentation of a cheque for over £3000.00 to a member of Yorkshire Air ambulance, President Julie's favoured charity for her tenure. (sigbi.org)
Keys man Merl Saunders was closely associated with Jerry Garcia and The Dead, without ever becoming a full member of the band probably for the best, as they had the worst keyboard player attrition rate warzone fly hack buy any band I can think of. (capcess.com)

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All armies, navies and air forces of the world equally welcome here. (pprune.org)

With the support of many knowledgeable skilled technicians, businessman and medical crew members, both Haitian and American, this is a winning program. (herofoundationusa.org)
Air ambulance is leveraged with complete air medical crew and equipment as per the protocols. (airborneprivatejet.com)

Stories like those told by Curnock and Claywell could be overheard over and over Saturday as Huey crews and Vietnam veterans alike remembered the horrors of so many years ago in a country thousands of miles from home. (vietnamdustoff.com)
Give the Duke of Kent a break - poor chap suffered a stroke a few years ago and is in his 80s now. (pprune.org)

386th Bormber Group flew from Easton Lodge Airfield. (roll-of-honour.com)
Kneelers depict the squadrons of the 386th Bomber Group: 552nd, 553rd, 554th, 555th, and the badge of the 9th Air Force. (roll-of-honour.com)
Although Gibson was unaware of it at the time, the squadron was formed with the specific task of attacking the Möhne, Sorpe and Eder dams in the Ruhr area, and Gibson hand-picked 21 existing Lancaster crews from other squadrons of No 5 Group to carry out this mission. (globalaviationresource.com)

Customers started flying from seldom serviced areas and the operators would have to spend 3 hours repositioning for a 45 minute flight from Oklahoma City to Plano. (magellanjets.com)
The flight crew were friendly, warm, personal and professional. (magellanjets.com)

Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC0. (roll-of-honour.com)

The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions fuel flew Tuesday from London to New York in a step toward achieving what supporters called 'jet zero. (ctvnews.ca)
An Ornge air ambulance carried an injured student to a London, Ont. (ctvnews.ca)

In July 1998, the air ambulance, a Eurocopter AS355 Twin Squirrel, registration G-MASK, crashed in good weather after colliding with power cables near Burham while returning to Rochester Airport following an aborted call to attend a road accident. (wikipedia.org)

After completing his training at Yatesbury, John was next posted to the No 4 Bombing and Gunnery School at RAF West Freugh for a short course in air gunnery. (historyfare.co.uk)
In addition to Hansen, the other scientists working there are Doctors Lopaka (Lani Lim), Kent (John A. Hunt), Conrad (Jim Ferrier) and Abicoff (Wayne Oxford). (mjq.net)
About three feet away from the crater, John helped the ambulance men lift the plane's oil tank off the lower part of the navigator's body. (glatton.org.uk)

When I was a rockape the depot was at Catterick and although the station commander was referred to as the commandant there was no such post as Honorary Air Commandant, the appointment currently held by Prince Harry. (pprune.org)

3 Kent Harrison SAR volunteers are licensed to perform this technique in conjunction with members rom Chilliwack SAR. (coastbackcountry.com)

That's when we were able to step in and donate an ambulance for their cause. (herofoundationusa.org)

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