Rotorheads Around the World (incl 'Views from the Cockpit')

[Heliport]

Thanks John. Thought it looked like you.

Re higher res available - I wanted to use that superb shot of you firefighting for our February calendar, and want to avoid using the same sources in consecutive months if possible.

Heliport

[Mr_Grubby]

Whirlwind, '756' is XG595 taken @ Portland 1964




G-APDY, @ Farnborough 1964



WV223, @ Upavon, 1962. In the background is a Bristol Fighter, D 8096.


Sorry about the quality of these pics. They were taken in 1964 so are 40 years old!
I have some more, same era, if anybody is interested.

Clint.

Pics By John Newman.





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These pictures come to me via a friend. There are 350 in all taken in the early '60s. I am putting them onto a CD. There are all sorts, not just helicopters but a lot of French, German. Belgian, Dutch and British fixed wing.

I will post a few more tomorrow.

[Heliport]

Mr_Grubby / Clint

Nothing wrong with the quality, and they're interesting photos.

Anyway, we don't worry about quality - it's the subject that matters.


Yes, I'm sure people would like to see more helicopter pics from the same era - post them when you have time. A mix of old and modern is good.

Thanks.

Heliport

[Nigel Osborn]

Mr Grubby

Good to see those old photos. I was flying the Whirlwind Mk7 in Portland in 1963, so if I can dig out my old log books, I might discover that I flew that one!

I just realised that I flew a Wessex Mk5 in the 1964 Farnborough Air Show, so I must have seen that turbine Whirlwind too!! Time flies!!

[Mr_Grubby]

Wessex XR526 Farnborough 1964.


Nigel.
Was this the Wessex you flew ?

Clint.

[SilsoeSid]

A Lynx 7 during the day 'somewhere in Southern Germany'

A Lynx 7 under NVG (note exhaust)

[imabell]

spraying herbicide in a bell204, bribie island, queensland.



brisbane control tower,

[John Eacott]

Odd little happenings around our neck of the woods:

Venture Helicopters' 205 is nicely wrapped, ready to go home after covering Tasmania for the fire season:



And a very smart Turkmenistan registered S76++ arrived ready to be shipped....somewhere?








And a Bristow Tiger, G-TIGM, was freighted in from China, assembled here for ferry to Perth for a G check:

[Nigel Osborn]

John

Are you doing the ferry flight????? Probably going to the Black Sea or Caspian.

[Heliport]

A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, lands at Stone Bay, Camp Lejeune, N.C., a few days ago.






Three CH-46 Sea Knight and two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters flying from Stone Bay, Camp Lejeune, N.C., to Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C. the same day.

Click on the picture for a bigger and better version.

[Mr_Grubby]

Brantley B2a G-ASHD @ Bournemouth. Hurn, England, 1964.



Brantley B2a D-HECO @ Munchen Gladbach, Germany, 1963.

Clint.


Pics. by JN.

[SilsoeSid]

Pumas operating in Southern Mozambique

Crown Copyright
Delivery of food and supplies was a primary task

Since arriving in Southern Mozambique the weekend of 5th/6th March the four Pumas of No 33 Squadron have flown over 255 hours, distributed 314 tonnes of supplies and airlifted 517 people.

More information on the RAF website

[imabell]

jetranger lift off,



214 at the canberra fires last year,

[SilsoeSid]

Gazelle at Sutton Bank N.Yorkshire

One of those,'trying to get the right shot for leaving presentation picture' moments.
Eventually the right shot was achieved, (this isn't it but you get the idea!)
Don't know where the ultimate picture went after the presentation as the unit disbanded.

I took this picture myself (one of many!) and was fortunate enough to be in the a/c for the pics taken by the 'proper photographer' on a different day.

[imabell]

silsoesid,

you're a proper photographer.

[RICKO]

Do you mind a FJ photog posting some helo piccis on here for a change?

I have a few, not a lot.

Ricko.

[sss]

go on ricko, you will be more than welcome

[Heliport]

Ricko

More than welcome, as SSS says.
And even the odd FJ pic, as long as it's a good one. We're a broad minded lot in here.

[The Nr Fairy]

Ricko:

Heliport's right. some of us swing both ways.

Me, I think fixed wing is unnatural.

[Capt Hollywood]

The Australian Army's solution to improving the accuracy of their door gunners!!

Cheers,

Hollywood