Rotorheads calendar January 2010

[John Eacott]

For the New Year the January calendar photo comes from George Phillips, Chief Pilot of the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. Their MD 902 attended a ‘FAWGI’: False Alarm With Good Intent, the reason is shown in the attached photo at the bottom of this post. Taken on the 18th December 2009, just at the start of the heavy snow in UK over the festive season, near Bourne which is south of Cranwell, Lincolnshire; vaguely familiar to most of our RAF aviators ;)

The LNAA is a charity funded by the local community of both counties, and they average 1,000 calls every year with about 600 being vehicles accidents, 100 horseriding accidents with the rest being an amazing and ever educational mixture of the ways people manage to get it wrong; chain saws, ladders, roof falls etc! Thanks, George, and a Happy New Year to all Rotorheads :ok:

Wide screen size:
http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3281-1/Jan+2010+wide+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3278-1/Jan+2010+wide.jpg)

Standard screen size:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3286-1/Jan+2010+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3283-1/Jan+2010.jpg)



As always, for Windows users click on the thumbnail to open a higher resolution full picture, and then right click to select “Set as Background”. Mac users should select the background via System Preferences.


Finally, the reason for the FAWGI:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3290-2/18+Dec+Cas+2.jpg

[Whirlygig]

Great photos George - always lovely to have your chopper on my desktop :E :ok:

Cheers

Whirls

[Thud_and_Blunder]

Prescient? Moi?

:ok:

Seeing as how New Scientist haven't produced a series of desktop calendars for 2010 (yet), it looks as though I might just have to have a 902 adorning my screen. Good.

PS George, give my regards to the workers, or to the paramedics if you see them(!) :\

[Bertie Thruster]

Any time, Whirls!

Wilco, Thud.

We started off 2010 bright and early 1st January with a car off the road and on fire, (one cas to hospital). Then another, high speed into trees, (despite best efforts, ultimately fatal)

Happy New Year, everyone!

[carsickpuppy]

Nice pic, hated to pull L'Astrolabe penguins but time marches on

[WhatsThatNoise]

Any chance we can have the last picture as a download please?

[John Eacott]

Any chance we can have the last picture as a download please?

If George gives his approval, I can post a link, but it's his copyright to say yea or nay :)

[Bertie Thruster]

Right click and "Save Picture As". ??

[Whirlygig]

I think maybe it was meant the pictures without the calendar on top?

Cheers

Whirls

[Bertie Thruster]

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i97/nmhsu/AIRCRAFTSPECDRAWING4006.jpg

[Whirlygig]

Cheers me dear :ok:

Whirls

[WhatsThatNoise]

Bertie.

i was after the picture with the car included if possible, in widescreen size.

[Bertie Thruster]

WTN; I think the "widescreen" bit is up to you to make fit from the normal photo, if you want it like that!

(John Eacott has done two versions of the first photo for us, as both have the calendar superimposed in different positions)

(Out of interest; the second image does not show the rest of the vehicles involved in this incident; I could only get the first one and the aircraft together. Also, due terrain below the line of sight, if any cars had slipped further there, or even rolled, they would not have reached the chopper.)

Regards and Seasons Greetings, BT