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Mountain Flying in Snowdonia
Not up to the standard of some of the amazing photos posted but here goes....
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Tigerpic. Why are you flying around with a cow's head on a rope ?
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My first attempt at a photo in a message...hopefully it works!
This picture is an "Erickson Aircrane" (Olga) at Los Banos airport in California. I happened to be there in the morning and the light was awesome, so I snapped a pic! OK I finally got it...Thanks to John Eacott for hosting the pic and RDRickster for helping out! http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...Pics%20014.jpg |
On behalf of "oscar bravo"
Click for link to his picture...
(I couldn't post the image directly for some reason - I think that site doesn't allow redirections from external sources) If Rick's link produces 'You are not authorized to view this page', refresh that page and you'll see the picture. Heliport |
Where were we? XW 895. Among other memorable sorties, B1 recat v Burnett 1985, as well as pre-A2 workup (which went a great deal better than A2 v God, but then that wasn't in XW 895)
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D44. Attempting a cushion creep limited power TX out of the St Earth Confined area (and just about succeeding, with a limited power wing over to miss the trees at the far end)!! Sandy M suitably unimpressed.
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robbo jock: not a cow's head.... it is a HUGE soap-on-a-rope!
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Presumably for the crew's annual shower.
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Thanks to John Eacott for hosting.
Waterbirds course in Nova Scotia August 02 http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/pprune1.jpg Waterbirds course in Nova Scotia August 02 http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/pprune2.jpg Ilfracombe Lifeboat Day July 03 http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/pprune3.jpg Ilfracombe Lifeboat Day July 03 http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/pprune5.jpg Lake District March 04 http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/pprune6.jpg Falklands February 02 - hmmmm something missing from that Chinook I think! http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ne/pprune7.jpg |
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/.../PHI%20012.jpg
407 landing on offshore platform... http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/.../PHI%20014.jpg ...407 taking off again. http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/.../PHI%20062.jpg All yellows greens and blues. |
Trawling through the old tin trunk, I found a bunch of interesting old shots:
We were tasked to test the jettison for the Sea King, and deducted that the looker would hold the drop button, whilst rotating the weapon station selector. It seemed to work... http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...0ripple%20.jpg 700S had a number of flights & phot sessions: this one is a worry, look at the fixed wing types on the deck ;) http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...0over%20CU.jpg This sort of load was quite an achievement after the Wessex: http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...gun%20lift.jpg Chris Johnson had an engine failure on a SAR launch: he did well to get back on the angle :ok: http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...AR%20crash.jpg They held the launch long enough for the phot to get out of the way ;) http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...20bow%20on.jpg |
Culdrose Air Day, 1975: pastel colours were all the rage:
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...20day%2007.jpg http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...20day%2005.jpg |
Thanks to John, I am trying some contributions to the gallery spanning some 30 years of helicoptering. If it gets boring, shoot me down.
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e%20u%20go.jpg http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...rune/50hrs.jpg http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/.../El%20Finz.jpg http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...rune/50hrs.jpg Done :ok: You used [url] instead of [img] Heliport |
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/100_1724.jpg
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/100_1729.jpg http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/100_1736.jpg from 846 naval air squadron, with thanks to john eacott |
herbicide spraying, bribie island, queensland.
http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/2042.jpg |
mustering herefords on the open grass plains of magoura station in the gulf of carpentaria in 1980.
http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/47g.jpg |
heli muster
bell 47 = old school style:ok:
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Bell 407 ALM in the Columbia River valley, Canadian Rockies http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ALM_Winter.jpg Spring 2003, Pipestone River, Lk Louise AB Canada http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ipestone_R.jpg Loading a 212 in the field after a M/R strike, a Kamov 32 flew it down to this spot. http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...he/AHZ_-_1.jpg My Backyard, Parked on the Continental Divide, Canadian Rockies, Abbott Pass, 9,500' ALM 407 http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...bbott_Pass.jpg 212HP AHC arrives at CMH\'s Bugaboo Heli-Ski Lodge spring 2004 http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...C_Bugaboos.jpg 206L3 ALL sitting at the BCFS repeater, 8,000\' Mica Ck BC http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...6L3_C-GALL.jpg ALM taking a break, Mountain Ck, Glacier National Park, August 2003 http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...aver_River.jpg ALL 206L3 at the BCFS weather station, 8500\', Mt Tabernacle Selkirk Mtns http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...Tabernacle.jpg ALM Pipestone River AB http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...stone_Burn.jpg |
407 driver
Spectactular pics certainly a contrast to where I am at the moment. Fly safe |
407 your pictures are Super Natural. Awesome !
407 driver An Interesting coincidence, I flew a 212 with registration GAHZ. |
Just a little bit funny.
Just read an article about a Bambi-bucket demo that got out of hand in New Mexico, USA. The worst thing about it? The cameras were rolling!!
Basically, conducting a demo to show the effectiveness of using a Huey for fire bombing but caused a little brush fire due to the downwash and the gents on the ground spinning into action. Feel sorry for the pilot - embarrasment PLUS!! :ooh: :uhoh: :\ Rotorhub link: http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/D...a-bd1c04c42eeb |
building a nature walk, baroon pocket dam, maleny. qld.
http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com...rune/204sl.jpg |
Bambi bucket (800L) on a 150' line.
This shot was taken when climbing off the Lake, so I'm about 200 AGL. (Given 150' of line, 80' trees, it may well be over 300' AGL ???) http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/..._Reference.jpg |
Longline bucketing.
Bambi bucket (800L) on a 150' line http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/..._Reference.jpg |
kawasaki bell g3b1 kh4,
the first of its type in australia in 1983, there are a couple of soloy versions now and they are one fantastic helicopter with an allison on board. what's wrong with what they are doing?????:hmm: http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/kh4.jpg :hmm: |
Is it the white socks with work boots?:D
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what's wrong with what they are doing
The pilot has left his tie in the crew room :ok:
(nuffing to do with the rope through the crewie's legs, or the driver not looking in the mirror, or...) |
http://delta.wtr.ru/files/winrace1.jpg
More such photos at www.rotorcraft.ru One more from www.rotorcraft.ru : - What is Russian fishing? - Fish is fried and fisher fired! |
http://hometown.aol.com/junglie846/i...0day%20002.jpg
1981 Air Day rehersal at Points West VL. I count 18 WX http://hometown.aol.com/junglie846/i...0day%20003.jpg A couple of Wessy Flares. A number of Seaking IV TRs were written off during the conversion http://hometown.aol.com/junglie846/i...orway%2081.jpg Norway Winter 1981. Splendid cam. Even when the a/c had departed the puddles of OM15 were a dead give away. (and in summer the piles of pink poo paper next to 4 foot silver birch stumps) 965 |
More from 846 NAS
http://hometown.aol.com/junglie846/i...gle%20base.jpg Eagle Base crew drop off. Germany 1988 http://hometown.aol.com/junglie846/i...20exercise.jpg Germany 1988. Had to Casevac three troops and one aircrew. The disembark horn went off too early. The troops jumped at about 20 feet agl. The aircrew guy was 'captured' and whilst being dragged away kicking and screaming (as you would) a thunderflash went off on his chest. Shame the pics are fading. 965 |
what's wrong
they are lifting a heavy steel drum with sharp edges in a very expensive net. the net could be severely damaged when the load hits the ground. :ooh: :ouch: |
What's wrong
They don't have enough power to lift the load.
The fat bloke should be on the ground, and the little bloke should fly the heli :O Poking it up with a stick / pulling it along with the red and white cable to get more translational lift isn't going to help. RC |
Before we "graduated" to 100' lines, this was a hover drop on a smoker. Just to prove we could ;)
http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...ver%20drop.jpg |
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Ah Yes, my Valued customer, He agreed to enter his photo's. Here are some of them that he took as I arrived and departed Mistaya Lodge this winter....
** 6 photo's courtesy of David Birnie, Mistaya Lodge ** 407 ALM arriving http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...at_Mistaya.jpg 212 AHC departing the Lodge... http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ng_Mistaya.jpg 212 departing... http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...0departing.jpg Departing the Valley ... http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...taya_Lodge.jpg 212 AHC arriving on a marginal fly-day.... http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...e/01974697.jpg The Snowball on arrival...... http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...at_Mistaya.jpg |
A couple of thes pics have been previously posted, but with my new-found photo hosting at PhotoBucket.com, I now have the famous picture of the "HELP" sign ...too funny!, but it worked. We spotted the missing climbers in their cave very easily with the sign and the debris trail of rocks they kicked down the Glacier...
For those of you that haven't seen the previous pics or heard this story.. - Call-out for a search for 2 overdue climbers on Mt Patterson, Banff National Park, AB Canada. - Late in day, 2 x 407's responded (hence the "camera ship"). 1 aircraft, ALM from Golden Base, the 2nd, ALA, returning to Canmore Base from a just completed Jasper Park rescue. - Found immediately, in a Cave at 9,500' - Slung 2 Park Wardens in, but cave too small to fit 2 Wardens, so dropped 1 off immediately above scene, 1 Warden inserted into cave. -The Warden administered first aid, then rappelled the victims out to a pick-up spot on the Glacier below. -Everyone lived happily ever after....home by dark. The HELP sign, the Cave where the victims were, the debris trail on the Glacier. http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...erson_Help.jpg Staging area, preparing the aircraft and crew. http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...n_rescue_2.jpg Dropping 1 Warden, as 2 wouldn't fit into the cave. http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...n_Rescue_3.jpg The Rescue, note the extra Warden hanging out on the slope near the aircraft. http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...son_Rescue.jpg |
Excellent shot John, How did you get it? a Passenger, or yourself?
Here's what the Belly drop looks like from below.... http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/..._Lk_Louise.jpg And my Base pilot playing with the L3, er.....I mean testing the bucket last week.... http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/..._Bucketing.jpg |
Excellent shot John.
Belly drop from below http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/..._Lk_Louise.jpg My Base pilot playing with the L3, er .....I mean testing the bucket last week http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/..._Bucketing.jpg |
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