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Old 13th Aug 2006, 13:21
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Maybe you could help the boys knock some of the dents out of the team car
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Old 13th Aug 2006, 20:21
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Pictures



As a student pilot ,I couldn`t resist the beauty of this scene and captured it forever in time and space. I will always remember you Mark and G-BEBZ

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Old 14th Aug 2006, 04:41
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how do all those helicopters land in that little area?
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Old 14th Aug 2006, 14:29
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Hey Hollywood,

You over-arc'ed at the bottom!
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Old 14th Aug 2006, 14:43
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Early EMS/Police Mi-2

Big Mike ... is that one of Alfa's original Mi-2's?
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Is this an aeroplane or a helicopter??
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Originally Posted by Wanna-be
Is this an aeroplane or a helicopter??
It's not only tarted-up Lynx that can reach 400 km/h. Stick a couple of wings on a 105, take an angle grinder to its skids and bob's your onkel.

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Old 15th Aug 2006, 05:30
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G'day SASless,

You over-arc'ed at the bottom!
It isn't actually a duplicated picture of the Squirrel in the image. I took 11 pictures of the Squirrel as it approached the pad and then using the wonders of Photoshop I overlapped all the images to produce the effect you see above. Each image of the Squirrel you see is the actual attitude and position that the aircraft was in at that stage of the approach.

I told you I should get out more. My machine is in for a 500hrly so I've got a week to kill!

CH
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Old 15th Aug 2006, 07:46
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Originally Posted by Capt Hollywood
My machine is in for a 500hrly so I've got a week to kill!

CH

You should have joined your flat mate for a couple of days down here in the snow
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Old 15th Aug 2006, 11:03
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Being a desert boy I've never actually been to the snow John, one of these days though! Had to cover for my flatmate anyway!

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Old 15th Aug 2006, 15:11
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I dont know about that. The snow I dropped you onto in the Squirrel at 6500ft in NZ was pretty real
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Old 15th Aug 2006, 23:58
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I don't count that as having 'been' to the snow BM. I have experienced snow for 10mins though and very grateful to your good self for the opportunity.

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Originally Posted by Heliport
The Crane was the last of Igor's personal babies. It was the direct outcome of the S-60 experiments that were done with the piston H-37 drive train. Here is Igor and his engineering team out for a quick flight underneath the first crane. Never mind computer designed, here you have a real case of putting your faith on the line!

On that S-60 flight, the pilot was Jack Peterson, and his co-pilot was Jim Kay.
After takeoff, Jim checked to see if the platform was behaving itself, as he glanced back to look, he said to Pete, "Pete, don't do anything sudden!"
"What's wrong, is the load swinging?", Pete asked.
"Nope, worse. The Old Man is up and walking around!"

Igor had undone his belt and began strolling around the tiny platform, oblivious to the fact that there was no railing, or that they were 1500 feet above the ground! After much strenuous gesturing, Igor got the hint and sat back down!
Took several days going through this thread but it was worth it. Do not fly helo for a living but have 40-50 hours in them from time to time, so know just enough to be dangerous in the things. Saw the above post and photo with it and it reminded me of an old friend.

Was at an airshow recently, where I am a judge for some of the antique airplanes. I also hold a hot dog/hamburger lunch for anyone associated with this model of plane at the airport. Walking around the area was an older gent wearing a hat and just looking around at all of the planes. I recognized him, having known him for a while as well as his being a member of our QB group here in the area.

I called for him to come over and enjoy a free lunch with us. There were about 20 others around and it seemed that no one knew who he was. Turns out that he was looking to buy an antique plane to fly around in so we spent over an hour talking about the pros and cons of each one.

After all of this discussion one of my friends was sitting next to this gent and having a good time. I mentioned to Gareth, who has about 30 years in the Army flying everything they have, that he should talk to the new guy about helos. Gareth asked why and it was at this time that the newcomer introduced himself.

He was Sergi Sikorsky, the son of Igor Sikorsky and still involved with Sikorsky Helicopters. He is still flying at the age of 81 years old but semi retired out here in Arizona. Anyone wanting to meet him who comes to the area in either March or October, PM me and can help at the fly-in.
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Old 23rd Aug 2006, 15:51
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Here's one of a German ship sunk during WWII in Aruba. From a R44 on a quick trip around the island.

[IMG]c:/aviation/german ship aruba[/IMG]
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Sorry the picture post didn't work. Any one have any ideas?
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Old 23rd Aug 2006, 17:06
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You can't post pictures on the web direct from your hard disk.

Click this link for instructions: How to Post Pictures

It's very easy.
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Old 23rd Aug 2006, 20:40
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Her's my new MT-03 gyro

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Old 23rd Aug 2006, 20:47
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Here we go again.

While flying a R44 around Aruba, I took this picture of a German ship sunk in Aruba during WWII.
It is just a few feet under water during low tide.

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Old 24th Aug 2006, 17:10
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Don't know but those ships look like they are floating on the water
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Old 24th Aug 2006, 17:26
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Ther is always one. Try looking under the water. After all it is a sunk ship. Try this one.

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