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From: Hello Kitty City
October 1996 - enroute from Banja Luka (Bosnia) to Split (Croatia).
Sorry for flying so high - but it was necessary so as not to get shot down!
This by the way is a Royal Navy Sea King Mk 4....NOT an MH53 (as we were mis-identified by a flight of US Army Apaches) NOR a Serbian Mil-8 Hip (as we were mis-identified by a pair of USAF F-16's!)
Sorry for flying so high - but it was necessary so as not to get shot down!
This by the way is a Royal Navy Sea King Mk 4....NOT an MH53 (as we were mis-identified by a flight of US Army Apaches) NOR a Serbian Mil-8 Hip (as we were mis-identified by a pair of USAF F-16's!)
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nice photo, jungly!
The color scheme there, is it designed to make the aircraft look less like a helicopter and more like a... ahem... a zebra?
I can see how this would confuse any adversary. Great trick, I say!
The color scheme there, is it designed to make the aircraft look less like a helicopter and more like a... ahem... a zebra?
I can see how this would confuse any adversary. Great trick, I say!
Joined: May 2003
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From: London/Oxford/New York
B47 and exrotarybooty,
Piccie of XT132 was taken at RAF South Cerney, then home of CFS (H) and CFS Basic, who own the Provost T1 in background.
Wrong Hangars for Middle Wallop.
Anyone remember the RAF team "The Tomahawks" ?
Flew the Sioux HT3 for a short while around the end of the 60's. Piccie of them would be nice..............................
Piccie of XT132 was taken at RAF South Cerney, then home of CFS (H) and CFS Basic, who own the Provost T1 in background.
Wrong Hangars for Middle Wallop.
Anyone remember the RAF team "The Tomahawks" ?
Flew the Sioux HT3 for a short while around the end of the 60's. Piccie of them would be nice..............................
Joined: Aug 1999
Aviation Qualifications: ATP+Mil
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From: Gold Coast, Australia
Seasonal extremes
Whilst Europe & Canada are suffering extreme bushfires, the Victorian Alps have had one of the best snowfalls in decades, not only a good depth, but genuine powder snow, almost unheard of in Oz. Temps down around -6C for a week, so we haven't done a lot of flying on our skier shuttle operation: here's our helipad at Falls Creek, it took two Kassie's an hour and a half to level it off for us to use when the snow eased off!
I was lucky enough to have a client want to go skiing, so the B206 was roped in to take him and I for a few hours on the slopes: this is our 6000ft AMSL roof top pad, complete with JetA1 refuel facility:
I was lucky enough to have a client want to go skiing, so the B206 was roped in to take him and I for a few hours on the slopes: this is our 6000ft AMSL roof top pad, complete with JetA1 refuel facility:
hja,hiz
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From: Downeast
Winnie.....used to be a roll of toilet paper stuck on the rotor brake handle on S58T's.....helped keep the white shirts from turning pink on the left shoulder and arm.