Rotorheads Around the World (incl 'Views from the Cockpit')
Thud and Blunder.
I was detached to 28 Sqn from Singapore in 1969 and I took a long Super Eight movie of this part of China. I converted it to DVD some two years ago and so far I have made 22 copies for Chinese colleagues. I do not have any still shots though and if you were ex AAC you could fly much closer to the border than we could. It would be nice to see them.
I was detached to 28 Sqn from Singapore in 1969 and I took a long Super Eight movie of this part of China. I converted it to DVD some two years ago and so far I have made 22 copies for Chinese colleagues. I do not have any still shots though and if you were ex AAC you could fly much closer to the border than we could. It would be nice to see them.
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This is a bit ABC, but it relates to Far East Driver's photos of China. Graham Lee and I took the first aircraft into China. 14th Sept 1984.
G-TIGN arrived from Southampton on a container ship. A few hours after offloading we were off to Kai-Tak and HAECO for a clean and brush up. 12th Sept.
G-BERH joined us the next evening. She arrived on a ro-ro ferry at Whampoa. We had great fun pushing and pulling it about on the car deck before I descended the ramp, only mildy under control, pumping like mad on the hydraulics while hoping the brake pressure lasted. Yet another busy night, before she too went into HAECO.
The dispersal, G-BFKZ had joined us from Karratha.
Reception, ATC, offices and some interpreter's accommodation.
Guangzhou (Canton) had to be visited to register the aircraft.
Engineering staff. Very keen, but limited usefulness initially as they'd only worked on Soviet Hooks, some had been trained on the Chinese version of the Dauphin.
Two of our Tiger pilots.
Usual crew, One ex pat pilot, plus interpreter and Chinese pilot.
The scene from the hotel, before we moved to flats near FED's location.
The Minghua had a great restaurant, bit mouldy, but good food. It had only recently been 'berthed/driven' alongside when we arrived. The crew, families and assorted farmyard animals lived in the bowels of the ship.
Shenzhen, 32 stories, or more, plus revolving restaurant, all constructed using bamboo scaffolding.
Karratha, 1986. Off to do a bit of radioactivity checking at the site of the A bomb tests. Lowendall Islands. Marek Glinski to the fore.
Anybody got a spare starter motor? Rankin, Karratha. Alan Rose front left, John Ward checking for elephant ears, Mick Omedei, engineer at rear.
G-TIGN arrived from Southampton on a container ship. A few hours after offloading we were off to Kai-Tak and HAECO for a clean and brush up. 12th Sept.
G-BERH joined us the next evening. She arrived on a ro-ro ferry at Whampoa. We had great fun pushing and pulling it about on the car deck before I descended the ramp, only mildy under control, pumping like mad on the hydraulics while hoping the brake pressure lasted. Yet another busy night, before she too went into HAECO.
The dispersal, G-BFKZ had joined us from Karratha.
Reception, ATC, offices and some interpreter's accommodation.
Guangzhou (Canton) had to be visited to register the aircraft.
Engineering staff. Very keen, but limited usefulness initially as they'd only worked on Soviet Hooks, some had been trained on the Chinese version of the Dauphin.
Two of our Tiger pilots.
Usual crew, One ex pat pilot, plus interpreter and Chinese pilot.
The scene from the hotel, before we moved to flats near FED's location.
The Minghua had a great restaurant, bit mouldy, but good food. It had only recently been 'berthed/driven' alongside when we arrived. The crew, families and assorted farmyard animals lived in the bowels of the ship.
Shenzhen, 32 stories, or more, plus revolving restaurant, all constructed using bamboo scaffolding.
Karratha, 1986. Off to do a bit of radioactivity checking at the site of the A bomb tests. Lowendall Islands. Marek Glinski to the fore.
Anybody got a spare starter motor? Rankin, Karratha. Alan Rose front left, John Ward checking for elephant ears, Mick Omedei, engineer at rear.
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Hey guys! Hope it's okey that I post, even if I am not a helicopter pilot
I take a lot of pictures of helicopters when I can, I have been flying a lot, since I know a few pilots. I hope to be a pilot one day. In the meantime I'll just stick to my gliding.
You can see some of my photos at:
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I take a lot of pictures of helicopters when I can, I have been flying a lot, since I know a few pilots. I hope to be a pilot one day. In the meantime I'll just stick to my gliding.
You can see some of my photos at:
Airliners.net
Aviation Photos: olaf ghanizadeh
airpics.com - aviation photography
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Olaf - welcome to the forum! Good luck with your flying career... but keep in mind that if you can consistently take photos like those now IMHO you could have a great career ahead as an aviation photographer! 
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I have found that the Canon software is great if you put it on the centre weighted metering system or even evaluative metering. It will take readings from all areas of the image and adjust the settings as needed.
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Ned, really good images. In your processing software there should be the ability to show the 'exif' data. Basically it's all the information about camera settings etc when the image was taken. That can be retrieved from the image when published or shown on the web if the file is appended to the image. (right click on the image, select 'properties'; if the exif is available it should be shown.)