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Transporting oil to a communications station in the mountains as part of a military contract to supply such stations from Lindenes in the south to Kirkenes, far north of the Artic Circle.


One of the company's Bell helicopters bringing supplies and construction material into Svelgen, north of Bergen, where during the past three years, some 600 tonnes of material have been transported in support of hydro-electric engineering work.
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throughout Norway.  This has already involved the air-lifting of some 150 tonnes of construction material in 1956, 550 tonnes in 1957 and 1,954 tonnes in 1958.  In 1958 alone some 44,000 take-offs and landings were made in connection with this work.

At Svelgen, north of Bergen, the company has been engaged on a three-year contract in support of a construction programme of water tunnels for electrical power stations.  In this connection the company has transported some 600 tonnes of material, those items weighing more than 300 kilogrammes (660lb.) being dismantled before take-off, flown up as separate units and reassembled after landing.

Another task was to carry 900 tonnes of construction material to the summit of a peak approximately 1,500 meters (4,920 feet) above sea level for building a "scatter" U.H.F. radio station.  Here the flying distance from base to site was only some six or seven kilometres (3.7 to 4.3 miles) and the whole job was completed within three months.

Helikopter Service A/S also holds a military contract for supplying communications stations from Lindenes, in the south, to Kirkenes in the far north.  This involves the transport of personnel as well as cargo.  Apart from the regular re-supply flights to these stations, military technicians use the service for inspection tours every


Four Bell helicopters of Helikopter Service's present fleet in the company's park at Oslo.  The fifth was absent on an assignment.
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