RATW copy

[vaqueroaero]

One of our 300's with the new experimental 'Shortar' system installed.
At the moment this consists of an old cardboard tube and a timed out tail rotor taped to it.

Many thanks to Graeme at Blue Tongue for hosting our nonsense.

[Bronx]

These were sent to me by a friend at LAPD

[Flingwing207]

My, that's a big one...

[Heliport]

Officials blessed the long-awaited Maui County emergency medical helicopter at Kula Ball Park.

[handysnaks]

Well, I recognise IB but I don't know who the skinny chap is!!

[Gunpilot]

Desert Take Off in an AH-64D Northern Iraq.

[Josh10524]

Great shot! How are the apaches handling the dust and associated problems compared to GW1?

[MightyGem]

Yep, did a few of those in my former life. Not in anything as exotic as a 64 though.

[Heliport]

Pictures originally posted by Wunper in another thread








Nick Lappos comments

That Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk (the one-word Blackhawk!) was for a while the fastest helicopter in the world (219 mph), and a dream to fly. The top photo has John Dixson in the back seat (he is Sikorsky's Chief of Flight Operations today at West Palm Beach) and the bottom photo shows Byron Graham in the front seat (he was the Dean of SA test pilots) and in the back was Kurt Cannon (he unfortunately died at Farnborough in 1974).

As a very junior test pilot, I had the fortune to have 2 flights in the S-67 in 1974, when we prepared it for the airshow. It was the smoothest, fastest helicopter I ever flew, and rolled like a dream.

[Winnie]

Heliport:
Those would be the Norwegian air ambulance, no?

[Heliport]

Winnie:
Those would be the Norwegian air ambulance, yes.

[Gunpilot]

My Beast

AH-64D Longbow Apache Looking Good!

[Gunpilot]

My Beast

AH-64D Longbow Apache Looking Good!

[Gunpilot]

Dust landing in Iraq

Good way to end your day.

[rotorboy]

After a week of fog it's clear, blue and a million this morning.





RB

[407 Driver]

Chris doing a DI on 206 C-FALU



ALM Rockies



ALM again



Jim hooking up my longline ALM Icefall Brook



Class D training

[belly tank]

[belly tank]

Cobra fire fighting ship



BT

[attackattackattack]

There was an absolutely classic print advert floating around a few years ago. The scene was late dusk, you could just see the outlines of trees, hedges and that unmistakeable silhouette. The strap line read:

Apache. Now there is reason to be afraid of the dark.

[WASALOADIE]

Where's Septembers Calendar?

I'm suffering from withdrawl symptoms, and missing the next edition of the rotorheads calendar