Rotorheads Around the World (incl 'Views from the Cockpit')
@ smudge07 as reply to your photo
Here are two pic of it while it was erupting:
This on taken at 7000' within 1NM from the source
Just put it into prespective; the top of the coulds there are sitting about 8000' and plume is reaching + 20.000' and across the photo under the black plume is about 10 NM
Here are two pic of it while it was erupting:
This on taken at 7000' within 1NM from the source
Just put it into prespective; the top of the coulds there are sitting about 8000' and plume is reaching + 20.000' and across the photo under the black plume is about 10 NM
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Superb photos - thanks to all who contribute.
Someone asked about the flat top in the Baffin Island photo in post 5444. My son (who knows about this kind of stuff) tells me that it is the North Tower of Mount Asgard and is well know as a place for base jumping.
I also found this from Wikipedia:
"In 1976, stuntman Rick Sylvester performed a BASE jump, skiing off the mountain with a Union Flag parachute for the opening sequence of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, although the fictional setting was the Austrian Alps. The stunt team and film crew had made their ascent by helicopter."
Someone asked about the flat top in the Baffin Island photo in post 5444. My son (who knows about this kind of stuff) tells me that it is the North Tower of Mount Asgard and is well know as a place for base jumping.
I also found this from Wikipedia:
"In 1976, stuntman Rick Sylvester performed a BASE jump, skiing off the mountain with a Union Flag parachute for the opening sequence of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, although the fictional setting was the Austrian Alps. The stunt team and film crew had made their ascent by helicopter."
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When I was showing those pictures around, somebody did mention that the flat top was in James Bond movie, I found it hard to beleive due to its location way up north.
For 2clipper, yes you could land on top legally and it is flat with hard packed snow on it, here in Canada only in "parks" do you need prior permission to land somewhere. or outside of "parks" regulations are "2000 ft away from the closest habitation".
Also hard to deviate from your original route when there a lot of distance in between fuel stops, Can't afford to get caught in bad weather in that kind of terrain looking for a way out when you have barely enough top make it to your next fuel.
JD
Different year, aircraft but same location
For 2clipper, yes you could land on top legally and it is flat with hard packed snow on it, here in Canada only in "parks" do you need prior permission to land somewhere. or outside of "parks" regulations are "2000 ft away from the closest habitation".
Also hard to deviate from your original route when there a lot of distance in between fuel stops, Can't afford to get caught in bad weather in that kind of terrain looking for a way out when you have barely enough top make it to your next fuel.
JD
Different year, aircraft but same location
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3 million views!
Rotorheads Around the World has just gone through 3,000,000 hits - a record for a single thread in any forum in the history of PPRuNe.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed pictures.
Special thanks to BlenderPilot who started our Picture Gallery in December 2002.
And to John Eacott and imabell who helped BlenderPilot hosting pictures for members in pre Photobucket days.
Many of the 5500 posts contain several pictures so the actual number of images is way beyond that. Maybe somebody will count them one day, and post the figure.
It's the best collection of pictures of helicopters in action anywhere, either on the internet or elsewhere - with the added attraction of being a showcase of different types of ops carried out by helicopter pilots all over the world, reflecting the truly international nature of this forum.
Keep 'em coming.
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Had a bit of time to kill so did some counting. Went from the start of the thread to the end of Page 70.
Not including images that had broken links or ones that were requoted in posts or ones that were links to other sites there were a total of:
1291 Images.
Someone else might like to count the next batch of images and then I can add it to this total. Just count the images and send me a PM and will add them here. Make sure you tell me what batch of pages you counted.
Cheers
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Not including images that had broken links or ones that were requoted in posts or ones that were links to other sites there were a total of:
1291 Images.
Someone else might like to count the next batch of images and then I can add it to this total. Just count the images and send me a PM and will add them here. Make sure you tell me what batch of pages you counted.
Cheers
BOTW
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Not always a perfect view
Northen Quebec, Canada in late October 2007
And a reason where you would go straight on the main hook
JD
And a reason where you would go straight on the main hook
JD
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The Morning Shuttle
Dawn breaks over the 40s Field and the Morning Shuttle gets under way.
(size adjusted)
(size adjusted)
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Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia
Probably nothing special for those of you who fly tourists around there every day, but I found the view quite enjoyable.
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What letter do I need to add to the URL to make this one size larger?
Adding a letter won't change the size of the picture. The URL is the location on the web where the picture is stored.
Forties Shuttle
.... and I don't remember the weather at the Forties looking like that when I flew my first sortie in command, as a non instrument certificated Captain, in a 61 on the first Forties Shuttle of the day. It was a black, wet, misty morning in February 1977 when I had to refer to a plan of the Forties field in order to set off in the right direction to the next platform !
Or....making a radar approach to your platform of choice (the strongest radar return on the edge of the field) to discover it is a Tanker doing about ten knots
....before using the field map to find your way around.
) to discover it is a Tanker doing about ten knots....before using the field map to find your way around.
From the NS to Queensland: a quick run from Brisbane to Fraser Island today, iPhone photos giving some odd blade effects 
Positioning Archerfield to Brisbane:
Coastal northbound:
Out of Kingfisher Resort, 10 years since I stayed there and it hasn't changed!
and Glasshouse Mountains on the way back
Positioning Archerfield to Brisbane:
Coastal northbound:
Out of Kingfisher Resort, 10 years since I stayed there and it hasn't changed!
and Glasshouse Mountains on the way back
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To get an idea of the size of the Thialf, take a look at the deck on the shot above then the one below.