Guardian Newspaper Helicopter Article

[windowseatplease]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2249498,00.html

[Sliding Doors]

For once not a bad article :ok:

Shame journos still don't check facts before printing them though :ugh:

Fast aren't a Robinson dealership. Service centre (courtesy of what used to be Eastern Atlantics engineering expertise :ok:) according to Franks website. Also thought that they'd only bought 10 R44's for onward sale last year (before the annual Robinson price rises). Not a bad number to shift, but just shows you cannot trust everything (well much in this case :E) that an MD tells you :ugh::ugh::hmm:

Would also have been good if the journo had investigated a little further about Battersea heliport. Slot system yes, but initially very poorly managed :{, price increases :{ and what about the current total lack of flexibility regarding parking. Won't that make Londons only heliport a shining example through the summer months, especially on 'event' days :eek:

Oh but Von Esson does own some nice hotels :p

[manfromuncle]

And the Shirley Bassey 'crash' he mentioned was NOT a crash.

[heli-mad]

....very good, we need some good publicity after the news for the accident in Harrogate....:ok:

[HeliCraig]

Seems relatively well balanced to me; a few minor errors - but then the chap is a journo afterall.

Not sure how the stereo typical reader of The Guardian will react to that article though, not a single mention of carbon footprint (although there was a token mention of environment) I suppose...

... or perhaps I have a twisted image of the stereotypical Guardian reader?

(Oh and before we all start, I read it regularly too - but then again I also read The Mail!).

[KNIEVEL77]

I can't believe you've admitted to reading The Mail!!!!!:eek:

[ambidextrous]

Pardon me for being a pedant, but what is a "helcopter"? The 212 is certainly hellishly noisy but I always assumed that I was flying a helicopter? Don't Guardian journos emply proof readers?

with fraternal greetings,
ambi:ok:

[r44raven]

I read the "Daily Mail" the other week when it ran a story on the BA 777 crash - the writer seemed to imply the commanders decision to leave the handling pilot flying the plane while he hit the checklists was odd. Haven't bought it since.:ugh::ugh::ugh:

[Whirlygig]

Don't Guardian journos emply proof readers?
No. And the newspaper is famous (if not infamous) for having misprints and typos.

It's not called The Grauniad for nowt y'know!

Cheers

Whirls

[ShyTorque]

What are you emplying?

A bit of journalistic license with "helcopter aerdynamics", too. :)

[docstone]

The Daily Mail in its purple prose surrounding the 777 accident also explained to readers that Instrument Landing Systems were comprised "...of a laser shone into the sky...." Great stuff, scary that these people are the moderrn day equivalent of the thought police.