Helos Around the World - Ned's Collection

[John Eacott]

Originally Posted by KiwiNedNZ

Another 505 I shot today in Sion, Switzerland.

Slightly incongruous to see so much snow and the driver in shorts



Great shot, Ned

[krypton_john]

Originally Posted by SuperF

For relatively current civil helicopters,
Ugliest, BO105,
R22/44/66,
BK,
AS350/Bell505 about the same...,
204/205/212/214,
206/407,
222/109. Prettiest

Something about those Italians, they just know how to build good looking gear.

How about the flying ice cream cone, aka Brantly B2?

[KiwiNedNZ]

This 505 has the longer skid tubes as well.

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One of Michael Kadoories MS520Ns that I shot some years ago.

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Two Babcock H175s out off the coast of Darwin.

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This was a new 407GX that EliCompany started operating in Sardinia, Italy. Nice machine and great location to shoot.

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An S76D from Bristow out in the GOM.

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One of the helicopters working on the recent fires in Nelson, NZ.

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Another one from the Nelson fires, this H125 pulling water out of a house pool. This property lost a home just out of shot on the left, fires got VERY close to taking this property out.

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This was a CHC S92 I shot at Stornoway many moons ago. Amazing group of people to work with there.

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Another throwback to the MD902 that Gulf Helicopters used to operate in Doha, Qatar for a period of time.

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Pacific Helicopters first H145 into Papua New Guinea. Have done a couple of shoots with this machine and always fun times.

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I know everyone is having Vertical Freedom withdrawals with the loss of his photos so will try and help fill the gap a little and post a few more from my travels.

Cheers

Ned

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Throwback to a shoot I did with the Australian Army on the occasion of the retirement of their Hueys.

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An MD500 that used to be operated by Marine Helicopters. This is one of the oldest 500s in NZ, think it now ended up on a tuna boat.

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Getting to shoot stuff like this is a blast - Thys Potgieter and the 300 out darting some Rhinos so they can put trackers into their horns and keep an eye on them and out of the hands of poachers.

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An MD500D that used to be operated by Helifor. Shot this during a powerlines project they were working on near Hope, BC

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A CHC AW139 SAR machine I shot down on the south coast of the UK few years ago.

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An old Super Frelon that used to be parked at an airport in Johannesburg.

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This was a privately owned MD902 that I shot down in San Diego, had a pretty cool paint scheme.

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