Impressive picture, Aser!
But for me, the bladetips are a littlebit too close to the snow for comfort...

skadi

Anti aircraft fire being tested in Essex :oh:

Just wait for the Photoshop bombardment!!! It looks perfectly real to me... but the blades are clearly far too close!

Is it the angle its taken at?

MADY

Aser
I must suggest that you are having a real lend of us.

1) there is no indentation where the skids have penetrated the snow.
2) assuming that the snow is soft enough for the skids to easily penetrate, why then are there no swirling vortices in the blade tip region? :ok:you lose:ok:

3) I have witnessed a 47 blade not quite as close as that to recently rained on red ground, and the vortices were at least twelve inches high each time a blade went past.

4) why not land on top of firm footing on the rock a little ways up hill?

besides all that how come there is f'all pitch on the blades?
gees maaaate.

Oh gawd, 'ere we go again. Anyone remember that Longranger in Canada? :rolleyes:

It's probably an optical illusion due to 'foreshortening' from a zoom lens. Or sumfink... :8

The shadow looks too good to me to be a fake though ?

MADY

Fake or not, it seems possible (pretty close though):


http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/CNN77/BO105.jpg

(Disclaimer: picture might not be to scale - and the distances are of course not as prescise as depicted)

Testing out the posting.


http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l1...t/P1000092.jpg

Some target practice.

topendtorque you are very wrong, but I don't really care...
I'm sure you also think this is another "fake" :rolleyes:
http://www.strangevehicles.com/image...ent/106302.jpg


Regards
Aser

Looks good to me.

Hey Aser, why is the door open? Is that cause the photographer got out to take the pic?

HF

Hosepipe to Helicopter!
 

The picture (4012) of the models spraying a low flying Angel CH-7 helicopter is from quite an extensive photographic portfolio featuring some very lovely models and several helicopter types, but mainly the CH-7.

I'm too computer illiterate to post a link.

Congo 2007
 

These ones?

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/ima...07-12/8866.jpg

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/ima...008-1/9442.jpg

Although the MD portfolio is much nicer, IMHO ;)
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/ima...007-4/4143.jpg

Manitoubrian

That 109 in post http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpos...postcount=4011 was me [last Thursday I think].

Cheers

Gary

Photoshop is for p.....'s!
 

Aser, excellent picture! A tad beyond what I feel happy with for clearance, but hey!
I saw something similar from New Zealand some years ago, but can't find the picture. It was a 355 on a glacier-rescue. Not as steep slope, but those 355-blades are a bit longer though.

It seems that some pprune'rs when they see a picture of a situation(or whatever being displayed) that might be (is) out of their own capacity have to discredit or seriuosly question the topic. :sad:

topendtorque, gees maate, you've got talent

Sudan 2006
 

That Bo105 pic is real.

Its funny the things people come up with to try to prove something isnt real. The ratio of tail rotor blurring to main rotor blurring is totally inacurate. Totally fake.

Why Thanks Nubian
but if it's the blade vortices to which you refer, I was never that smart, I only witnessed them, I wasn't flying them.

Aser
thanks , yes that photo has been around for about ten years (if not fifty) before your first post.

you're obviously fair dinkum, I'll go quietly.

BTW could you post us a photo of the same machine with the same weight on board and from the same aspect in a hover so's we can all look at the disc loading. maybe you should do something about your oil burn off as well, or is that normal for throttle off.
tet

I remember when some folks thought this was fake.

http://www.sarinfo.bc.ca/Library/Ima...oramaRidge.jpg
RCMP rescue Golden Ears Park, British Columbia in the spring of 2000.

On a simliar note...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqcF5rKo7f8&NR=1

A few 'nose ups' from Sumburgh from the past week or two.

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/temp/DSC_7759_Vga.jpg

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/temp/DSC_7954_Vga.jpg

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/temp/DSC_7863_Vga.jpg

Brazil 2005
 

Ec 120
 

Pooks - Love that S92 shot! Can I suggest you knock the shutter speed back a bit though to get the rotors in motion effect. I see you've even managed to stop the tail rotor in the shots so you must be shooting in the thousandths of a second range. Try dropping the shutter speed right back to 1/125th or 1/250th if you have to. Any faster than 125 and the main rotor blades will usually look pretty stationary. Just a suggestion!

Cheers,

CH :cool:

I was looking for more details on the Dauphin at Eurocopter, and found this gem from the CHC website :)

http://www.chc.ca/images/photodocume...ust_Police.jpg

TOMMY1954,
Do you have any picture of the Heliportugal aw139?

Acer,
not yet, but I´m trying

Cheers

Thanks Capt H, those shots were all in Auto mode hence the fast shutter speed. Was toying with the idea of taking the tripod down sometime and knocking the shutter speed down a bit.

Check your pm's Pooks

C.H dont you see the string attached to the heli?? :O

OMG. That Oz police car looks like someone entered it into 'Pimp my Ride'... :yuk:

What did we start!
 

Wow, and double WOW...... 2,000,000 PLUS hits what a set of members you all are.

Vfrpilotpb:D

Evora Airshow 2007
 

Spanish display team

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0716-00-17.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0715-01-33.jpg

Ken Wells

That helicopter must hold the record for the most repeatedly posted picture in the entire collection. ;)

B.

Evora Airshow 2007
 

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0713-12-11.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...14-17-17-1.jpg

AW 139 Heliportugal
 

Aser, Can´t do better for now
One of Heliportugal's AW 139

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...aMaio08100.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...Fireball01.jpg

Anybody hear that bang?

French "Dragons" EC 145....

Thanks to: http://aeronantesspotters.free.fr
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/9175/pict4433zq1.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8968/pict4432mi9.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4148/pict4489xe2.jpg

What's the horizontal scale under the FLI? Is it a mast bending moment gauge?

@212man: Yes, its the Mast Moment Indication! The old Version! New Version shows them Circular! :ok: