wow that is a good pic!

and its not a composite?

link has been edited, which is good.. :D

Wow... this picture is much more clear than last months. Excellent work!

I hope you like the calendar!

The picture is not a composite, its just a happy pilot who followed my instructions and was happy to throw around his machine for the picture, as most pilots around here are.

I hope its working out for everyone.

This calendar is optimized for a 1024 x 768 pixel monitor resolution, if you have another resolution the picture may look jagged, if many of you are using a higher monitor resolution please let me know and I will make two versions so it will display properly.

It's lovely!
:ok:

Another cracking photo :ok:

We should not lose all these - has anyone given thought to a way they can be kept available or published in some way?

Very nice, thank you Blender.

http://www.hunterwinehelicopters.com...20S-61%202.jpg

A rear end shot of Carson's S61 on the fires in OZ last summer

http://www.hunterwinehelicopters.com...ry/R44%201.JPG

Over Hunter valley gardens in the Hunter Valley, these gardens are massive and a feature on our tours in that area. there are 7 different feature gardens,waterfalls,walking tracks etc it took 4 years to build ad over $100m heard earned!!

http://www.hunterwinehelicopters.com...20Nctl%203.jpg

Over our home town of Newcastle and Nobby's headland in the background

Blender, wonderful shot, much appreciated.

Yes I think all the shots are worth saving somehow. As a poster collage to sell in flight shops? Or perhaps re-issued with 2005 calendar dates, in the shops by Christmas?

I just feel that Rotorheads has a product here. The best heli shots of the year, approved by the worlds heli pilots. Or do we have to get our kit off, as in the film "Calendar Girls"??

Pics originally posted by Rich Lee in the Boeing and MDHI joint venture thread.

http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/nas1.jpg

http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com...rune//nas2.jpg

A new Temsco B2 passed through town today. It was enroute to Alaska after being completed by Panterra Heli Support in Ontario Canada. They gave me a fly-by photo op on departure...

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...e/Temsco_1.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...e/Temsco_2.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...e/Temsco_3.jpg

Great Picture,

Thanx:ok: :ok:

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/..._base_camp.jpg

Helos back at base camp after a rescue on Mt McKinley, Alaska

http://img47.photobucket.com/albums/...t/Genesis2.jpg

When NASA's Genesis Sample Return Capsule (SRC) returns to Earth on September 8, 2004, it will make a dramatic entrance that's more James Bond than Buck Rogers. Professional stunt pilots flying helicopters with special retrieval equipment will swoop in and swipe the solar wind samples Genesis has collected during its two-and-a-half year solar bath.

Recently, a Hollywood stunt pilot and his flight crew practised mid-air retrievals at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground. Two Genesis teams will get more stick time next week in Utah.

The real deal, with the pilots capturing solar wind samples, is scheduled for Sept. 8.



(As you've probably guessed, the script came with the photo - the words are not mine. :)

http://i.1asphost.com/whoateallthepi...you_edited.JPG
Yorkshire Air Ambulance 3rd anniversary flypast with Hurricane at Breighton.

Heliport,

I thank you for making it clear that the choice of wording was not yours....to think that aerial task would warrant such a descriptive phrase as "stunt pilot" begs the imagination. In the world of utility helicopter flying....doing such things is more a matter of finding out what the client wants done, getting your friendly Federal man to grant you a waiver or other such dispensation. Heck...this would be no harder than banging your longline and bucket on on a buzzard's butt. ;)

Great Phot! Cool Livery:cool:
Thanks Blender

This picture was taken by Jack Jaworski on the Erawan platform, Gulf of Thailand. If you look close that's me smiling from the 61 :D

http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/tas.jpg

These pictures were sent to me by a friend on vacation in Australia. Sez he's thinking of staying. :D


http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...ustering_3.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/..._Mustering.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...stering_02.jpg

La mejor! :ok:

Regards.

Big camp move today in the Rockies, 45 passengers and 5,000 lb gear. I gave my Camera to a professional photographer and here are the results....

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_1.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_2.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_3.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_4.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_5.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_6.jpg

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...ighe/ALM_7.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...d/dscf1151.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...3-2389_IMG.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...3-2347_IMG.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...d/dscf1248.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...ing_Towers.jpg

Thank you for another amazing photograph. I look forward to these pics every month.

Two more from Mexico . . . .
 

This is one of the 412's used by the Electricity guys, there are about 12 of them working around the country, they are used for everything from Powerline patrol, to helping out when the hurricanes strike.

We mantain them here since we are a Bell CSF, they are required to be less than 10,000 hours TT by the contract so they are pretty new. We recently installed the tail boom strakes which help out a lot when doing external load work.

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/TXQ800Crop.jpg


This is the newest 407 in Mexico, it has nice avionics, TCAS, MFD's.

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/CGA800.jpg

We set up a few shots today, Here's ALM in the Rockies..

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...e/ALM_Mt_7.jpg

And over my hometown of Golden BC....

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...M_Golden_4.jpg

Working at 9,500' +12C

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...athedral_1.jpg

We work INSIDE this bowl at 9,500', sort of like a toilet bowl....on a windy day, it swirls like one too !

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...thedral_Lk.jpg

Pics from a recent trip tp South Africa and Zambia
 

http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a10.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a11.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a12.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a13.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a14.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a15.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a16.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a17.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/a18.jpg

Helijoe, is that a John Boat stuck through the side, here?

I think we should start showing our . . . .
 

HANGARS.


Here's the one I work at unfortunately there are three 407's missing in the pic including the one I'm standing on to take the pic.

I can tell you this . . . .

There is ALWAYS plenty of flying to do, and no two ever fly or start alike !

Left side
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/STAM1.jpg

Right side
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/STAM2.jpg

Don't mind the intruder please, who knows how or why that one got in there!

Our Base Hangar...

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...e/4e70b816.jpg

Another Hangar shot, with a pilot unclear on the whole Hangar concept...

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...Windsock_1.jpg

Actually, the Engineer was just changing a windsock, and, ... rather than hire a man-lift for $200.... No aircraft weight was put on the roof structure

http://img74.photobucket.com/albums/...Windsock_2.jpg

Permanent road warrior down route and therefore computing in public a lot of the time.

Eye catching is an understatement. I've never had strangers asking about wallpaper before - great every month but outstanding for July. It's really hooked the non aviators.

Many thanks
Rob

er...

While I admire the spirit, 407, perhaps a ladder would have sufficed?

That's a might tall ladder you'd need, I for one would not be climbing that high ! :p :p

Doing some winch emergencies checks for our crewmen. Thanks to Paul Sadler.

http://www.careflight.com.au/photos/gallery/i.jpg

Bell Flies new MAPL Fennestron demonstator
 

Bell 407 Demonstrates High Altitude Performance
 

I may as well post this whilst i was browsing at the Bell site, for you 407 fans!!

http://www.bellhelicopter.com/en/com...7_in_Nepal.jpg

Adding to its already impressive list of accomplishments on July 1 2004, Bell 407 flown by Bell Senior Experimental Test Pilot, Eric Emblin, and Flight Test Engineer, Ed Lambert, the aircraft landed on Tillcho Peak in the Mustang area of northern Nepal Himalayan mountain range at an altitude of 22,180 feet Hp (24,971 feet Hd). T


Ok back to work now!!

cheers BT

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/bo...-longbow02.jpg http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/bo...9-cockpits.jpg




IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS


EX-Military-Still instructing:cool:





Copied from the Who's Who thread.
Heliport

Supplies from HMS Endurance http://www.jim-mclaren.co.uk/images/...Helicopter.jpg


King Edward Point, South Georgia http://www.jim-mclaren.co.uk/images/...P%20Biscoe.jpg

Pictures originally posted in another thread by AlanM

Returning at the Farnborough Helipad yesterday, Black Cat 1:

http://www.pbase.com/image/31738878.jpg


At Fairford...
http://www.pbase.com/image/31471793.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/image/31471794.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/image/31471797.jpg

This may be an ignorant question but why do the wheels look like they are canted outwards? Is that an illusion or is that how they really fly and if so why?

Believe the wheels are canted toe out to prevent fore and aft movement on the flight deck of ships and also allow very tight turns on the same flight deck. All taxiing is done as per hover taxiing.

My UK peers please correct me if I'm wrong.

Corax the Canuck