Rotorheads calendar December 2009

[John Eacott]

With the festive season approaching rapidly, a choice of helicopters in the snow: or ice, really! A couple of my photos from last month down in Antarctica, you have a Christmas present to choose between the two :ok:

The helicopter is an AS350B2 with a Soloy modification to install an LTS101-700 engine. Owned by Helicopter Resources of Tyabb Airfield, Victoria and operated by HeliSolutions, the Squirrel is modified for Antarctic operations and is currently back into Antarctica supporting the Japanese.

Wide screen size:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3264-1/Dec+2009+wide+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3261-1/Dec+2009+wide.jpg) or http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3249-1/Dec+2009_1+wide+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3246-1/Dec+2009_1+wide.jpg)


Standard screen size:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3259-1/Dec+2009+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3256-1/Dec+2009.jpg) or http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3254-1/Dec+2009_1+thumb.jpg (http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/3251-1/Dec+2009_1.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.

[RINKER]

Excellent photos John many thanks for posting I'll put one of each on my two pc's .
R

[Whirlygig]

John, if you hadn't picked up a p-p-p-penguin piccie, I'd have been disappointed :}

Cheers

Whirls

[22clipper]

Flyin' a Spitfire in the UK, drivin' a Squirrel around one of the planets freezers. Sharing it all on a forum of our peers. Did you die & go to R'Head heaven Johno?

Reminds me of 'better than life', a mythical game invented by one of the writers of the TV series RedDwarf. Better Than Life was a computer game so good that people who played forgot to eat & died. There is great scene in the comedy sketch where a tycoon is having dinner with Albert Einstein & drop dead gorgeous movie starlet when his butler whispers in his ear that a homeless man wants to see him at the front door. The dishelved old tramp says "I'm your best friend. You are stuck in BetterThanLife playing a multibillionaire with a twelve inch dick, if you don't come with me now you're going to die of starvation"

Your reality is so good that it sounds like BetterThanLife to me. If you ever bump into an old guy in a beat up R22 at a bowser some day who says you must leave your kero burner & come with him don't listen. It's just me pulling a swifty!

A seriously great life John, drink deeply.