Any ideas about this photo?
 

I recently received this photo from somebody looking for any info on its history etc. Any ideas most welcome!

F43

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...elihanging.jpg

its was a new type of parachute they were testing called a paraheli
it has a engine and rotor blade to help you go back up, it helped on return journeys

after testing this device they deceided that they could put the parachuter inside the top device and they called it a helicopter the rest we know
LOL

Hahhaha, it took 1000h to realize that...;o)

Cheers!

I thought it was a new ride at the local fair :eek:

I reckon that is a camera on his right shoulder - and this is an early attempt at a damped airborne camera platform prior to those clever gyroscopic remote thingies in big white balls that the dangle from helicopters now

I believe that it is a film shoot. Lots of things were hung from helos in order to get "in flight" footage.

Looks like an Alouette II with a German reg (though I can't really make out the reg at all).

The rigging of the "parachute" lines looks very strange.

Short answer: I don't have a clue...

It's the very first Anglo-French multi crew concept. It's the British co-pilot underneath.

This setup all but eliminated camera vibration.

Re Camera vibration mount etc
 

Thanks for the replies so far, even the less than serious ones!! My ailing grey matter tells me that I think I have seen a similar photo many years ago and that it was indeed an early form of managing camera vibration for aerial shots.
If anybody has any extra info on this it would be of interest to me - and possibly other sad persons as well!!

F43

I'm certain that this rig was used by ace film camerman, the late John Jordan (had Battle of Britain and Catch 22 to his credit), and was used in the James Bond film starring George Lazenby. He earlier lost a leg when a Bell 47 got too close filming You Only Live Twice (the Little Nellie sequence - using this same rig?) and died after he fell out of the back of a B-25 filming Catch 22.

Not the John Jordan who used to terrorise the airshow circuit in a Stearman by the way!

Mmmmmmmmm ....


Now I could be wrong on this .... but as I have a mind that retains all manner of not very useful info and very little useful stuff I will have a go ...

I think you will find this piccy is of a rig that was used during the fliming of the movie "Catch 22" (or similar) ... when the director wanted to easily film a 360 deg panorama from in the centre of a B25 formation.

The idea was to suspend the camera man from this rig which then allowed the Allouette to fly around as part of the formation being able to do that task giving an uninterupted 360 take ....

Jeeze I hope i'm right or I'm gunna get some sh*t eh! :O

Cheers :E:ok:

Catch 22 or not?
 

Taking info from some of the responses, I googled around the web and found several sites which refer to John Jordan and his exploits as a helicopter cameraman. He lost part of his leg whilst filming You Only Live Twice and died whilst filming Catch 22 when he fell out of the helicopter - apparently he never wore a safety harness whilst filming........

The following link is to further info for those interested:- John Jordan


PS: Thanks to all for the help in identifying the pickie.

Helicopter Hire at Southend had one of those rigs. John Crewdson and Gil.....name now forgotten described using the thing over a pub lunch one day (circa 1975). Gil had been a stunt double for a Ms. P. Galore in the film Goldfinger as I recall. Stunning blonde she was! (Gil....as well as Ms. Galore).

It's Called "The Chair of Death!" And it's called that because someone was killed on it last year :}

Spinwing, you say this Allouette was supposed to keep formation with B25s. Question one - max speed of an Allouette with chap dangling underneath? Question two - stalling speed of B25?

Nah....it's a new hangover cure!

How does it land without squashing the poor chap?

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Pictures please......
 

OK, so now the picture I posted appears to have been positively identified, do any of you budding knowledge hounds have any other pickies of this contraption in use?

Cheers

F43

PS: 212man - I didn't think that you were allowed to get hangovers where you are working........