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The black jetranger was taken at Lake Gairdner in South Australia filming a comercial. The 119s were taken on a ferry from Perth to Adelaide. The AS350 at Moomba in South Australia and the helicopter camp is in the kimberley in Western Australia.

Can I do a mud crab?

I'd almost forgotton !! The best 12 minutes of your life.

What a nice way to earn a living.

Gordy,

"Current Trip"......Hell's Bells Laddy....looks like July in the Photo's as evidenced by being able to see the wires without having to shovel the snow off'em!

Sasless, Yep, its right now---they are in a "heatwave" in ND the last few days, there were a few lines with ice on them, but I did not get pics. I am currently stuck in Jackson, WY in a snow storm for the next day or so:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a/88e07538.jpg

Man you need some covers and heaters. :} Feel for ya buddy.

BWB

I used to live in Jackson, a long time ago. There are far, far worse places to be for a couple of days! Is the Mangy Moose still open in Teton Village?:ok:

Not sure about the Mangy Moose---I spent a few days in Jackson earlier in the year with my fire crew--we were stuck in weather then too. We spent the evening in some cowboy bar.....

I actually left the aircraft in Jackson and drove to Pocatello. I just got annoyed at the snooty attitude in JAC because I did not arrive in a "business jet" and was not wearing gold bars and scrambled egg. They did not appreciate my scruffy jeans and knitted woolly hat with "Smokey Bear" wings on it, (which was knitted and given to me by my USFS fire crew), therefore I had NO desire to stay in that town.

Rotorheads calendar January 2008

Happy New Year for 2008!

There are a choice of two images for January, both brilliant photos taken by Mark Ogden in the Australian ski fields when he covered the operation between Mt Hotham and Falls Creek ski resorts.

BK117 on skier shuttle:

Wide screen:
http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/1...wide+thumb.jpg

Standard screen size:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/1...K117+thumb.jpg

Bell 206BIII JetRanger pre flight:

Wide screen:
http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/1...wide+thumb.jpg

Standard screen size:

http://www.eacott.com.au/gallery/d/1...B206+thumb.jpg

As always, for Windows users click on the thumbnail to open a higher resolution full picture, then right click to select “Set as Background”. Mac users should select the background via System Prefences.

Kangaroo Island fires

Top quality pics, Ned. I hope the bloke who did the pre-flight on the Mil in the playground takes another look at the tail-rotor before he goes anywhere... He'd probably just been for a dive in the pool nearby.

Cool pics ned, awsome :ok:

Odd place to have a statue display of the mil lol!

Very nice indeed:ok:

Wow. Thank You Ned, simply awesome ..

Ned: Very nice, and glad to see you back (well, under a famliar name ;))

POHM1: Is that Stu Rawlinson standing by the open cowled 332L?

Edited to distinguish contributors (note to self - RTFQ!)

212man

Check your PM's

P1

Looks like Springer to me, good to see he is still buzzing around the skies; there’s something to be said for the Australian anti-ageism laws. :ok:
If you are reading this Stu: all the best for you and your family in 2008.
Greetings,
Finalchecksplease

Ned,

Many will say it, but those are just about the best posted pics we have seen for yonks.:D

Peter R-B

More please when you have the time!!:)

Ned,

Which model Hind?! is the one with the ZA flag? I thought they had made their own toy...!

Peter - Thanks and always try to get something different from each shoot.

Nubian - That is the Superhind MKIII and its done by ATE Aerospace in Sth Africa. They have already sold some up into Algeria somewhere and are now working on the MK5 I think it is which will have composite blades and other major improvements.

Ned

Welcome back Ned
I see you've bin around a bit - again - from the four corners of the globe to the different spectrums of rotary.
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Neville,

Thanks for the photos: any chance of a brief description with each shot, to give all of us an idea where/what/who?

:ok:

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Thanks for the photos: any chance of a brief description with each shot, to give all of us an idea where/what/who?

Heck if I do that I might get a lot of people in trouble :) :)

Will see what I can do from now on :ok:

This was Donald Trumps S76 waiting at the heliport while we were refuelling during a photo shoot.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...d/VC6Q0207.jpg

This one blew me away, here we were flying around NYC and I saw this. If anyone knows anything would be cool to know.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...d/VC6Q0210.jpg

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This one blew me away, here we were flying around NYC and I saw this. If anyone knows anything would be cool to know.

Here you are:

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The biplane on the roof sculpture was designed by some guy named Rudolph de Harak and executed by the sculptor William Tarr in 1969 (thanks Jack Ryan).
Apparently it's a full-size model of a WW1 Sopwith Camel, complete with runway. It was put there to amuse inhabitants of surrounding scyscrapers, notably the WTC.

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5578
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/31...25c8de.jpg?v=0

Regards
Aser