Elfan Ap Rees

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Elfan Ap Rees

Fellow’s Profile

Elfan Ap Rees

Rotary wing aviation

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Fellowship year

1992

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South West

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Biography

I am the Publisher and Editor of Helicopter International and HeliData News and Classified magazines and also the founder and chairman of The Helicopter Museum, the world's largest rotary wing collection, based at Weston-super-Mare. I have been writing about and collecting helicopters since 1969 and hold a number of lifetime achievement and other awards from various aviation-related organisations.

My Fellowship was to study the Russian helicopter industry at a time in the early 1990s when access to the factories and personnel was only just being opened up to Westerners. It was extremely successful, creating lifelong friendships and resulting in repeated visits over the following years to assemble articles, fly Russian designs and join in their helicopter sporting activities as a member of the FAI Rotorcraft Commission.

It is really impossible to lay out all the benefits I accrued from my Fellowship and my long involvement in the helicopter industry. Suffice to say that I have been fortunate to have a job which is also a hobby and a hobby for which I get paid!

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November 2023 Fellow's update: Elfan Ap Rees

Elfan Ap Rees (1992) has been appointed Life President and Founder of The Helicopter Museum in Weston super Mare.Previously Elfan served as Chairman of the museum's board of trustees for over 40 years, supervising its development into the world's largest rotorcraft collection.

By Elfan Ap Rees, 2023

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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

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editorial

November 2023 Fellow's update: Elfan Ap Rees

Elfan Ap Rees (1992) has been appointed Life President and Founder of The Helicopter Museum in Weston super Mare.Previously Elfan served as Chairman of the museum's board of trustees for over 40 years, supervising its development into the world's largest rotorcraft collection.

By Elfan Ap Rees, 2023

Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

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