That's one helluva pizza deliver service! :D

One thing I didn't totally enjoy in the past, was taking parachutists up.

Silly old me thought it better to land with the same amount of pax that you took off with!

http://www.geocities.com/pprunessils...MTVSkyDay3.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/pprunessils...MTVSkyDay2.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/pprunessils...MTVSkyDay1.jpg

Thanks to Stefan at party.at

edited to sort links

Moosp,

No he didn't get the lunch bag to us but we gave him a blood nose when the downdraft from the BK half rolled him over and his nose hit the handle bars as he crashed back on the waves. We did render assistance though.

Great photo's by Ned as always.

Best hour or so I've had in a long time.

helinun

Are you the pilot of the BK

Hi Blender

Being the all round computer whizz that you are, why does my computer come up with "not enough storage space" when I hit 'set as background'?????:confused:

Thank you guys for a superb photo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't let this thread get to far down!!
 

R44 vs B747-400

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...FF-TNCM006.jpg

Nigel Osborn,
 

I am sorry but I can't be of much help, it sounds like you really don't have enough memory space on your Hard Disk which I find hard to belive since it is not such a large file.

I am a Mac user an thus I rarely ever have any problems with my computer, thus I am not really a computer whiz.

Any job vacancies for flying the helo? :D

A couple of new ones :

Up in Canada the other day off the Stikine on the Scud and Galore Creek, eh.... All the leaves have cahnged and it was cool.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/jfkak/scud2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/jfkak/scud.jpg

This was over on Kuiu Is the other day picking up the brush apes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ak/kake001.jpg

later rb

Marine One
 

With the discussions revolving around the replacement of Marine One Sea Kings, I found some old photos from President Bush Mk1's visit to Melbourne. The Blackhawk was parked with our JetRanger at the Melbourne Jet Base, complete with very serious Marine guards, but we were allowed a guided tour: and quite unassuming the interior was, too! Polished to within an inch of their lives, though.....


http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...20One%2001.jpg


http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...20One%2002.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...20One%2003.jpg

Originally posted by kopter back in January.


Thought you might like to see this...
Was flying the SMH on the Wilton/Appin fire (SW Sydney) on Jan 8th.
Kate Geraghty from Fairfax took this great shot of the Skycrane as it was filling up!
Photoship skillfully positioned by me of course!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t/SMHwater.jpg



Sorry kopter - I was doing some archiving at that time and have only just noticed I deleted it by mistake.
Great pic - and superb precision flying, of course. :ok:

Heliport

If it's not already been used, my vote is for that piccie for next month's calendar.

I'll second that. Fab shot:ok: :ok:

Black Rhino Capture - Wilderness Area Heli Uplift
 

Hello Rotorheaders

I'm new at this - trust it works OK! I've used low res jpegs to save d'load time.

Imfolozi Black Rhino Capture - Wilderness Area Heli Uplift

Here are a few pics I took during a helicopter uplift of Black Rhino from the Wilderness area of Imfolozi Game Reserve in Zululand,
South Africa.
Because no vehicles, roads or any other infrastructure are allowed in Wilderness areas, the only practical means of removing the rhino is slinging them out by helicopter. In this case a Puma helicopter run by Starlite and flown by former SAAF pilot Ed Brown was used.

A brief overview of the whole operation:

A C182 fixed wing is used as a spotter to initially to find the rhino in the 65 000 acres of savannah thornveld etc.
As soon as the rhino is identified and the location confirmed, an MD500D follows out, flown by Vere van Heerden. A rhino capture
officer darts the rhino from the air after a section ranger has confirmed that the rhino is suitable for capture.
Once the rhino is immobilised and stablised the Puma brings in a 9-man ground capture team who prepare the rhino for loading
onto the net for slinging out.

I can post more pics and info regarding these capture operations if anyone is interested, as well as pics from a more recent
capture using the MIL-8.


http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...no_puma_04.jpg
Slinging the Black Rhino across the White Imfolozi river, on way to Mpila ...


http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...no_puma_01.jpg
Flight engineer Mark Bartholomew ('Spiderman'), pattering the pilots through taking up the tension and raising the sedated
rhino now lying in the net on the ground below ...

http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...o_sling_31.jpg
For interest's sake ... sedated rhino in a tricky position in a dry stream bed ... capture team preparing to move it to net to be
lifted out ...

http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...o_sling_30.jpg
Preparing to lower the rhino onto the soccer field at Mpila, where it will eventually be loaded into a crate and transported by
vehicle to the rhino capture centre ...




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...o_sling_32.jpg
Rhino just been off loaded at Mpila and separator frame and net being carefully moved away from rhino before Puma returns to
Wilderness to fetch ground capture teams ...

More later ... Blue Skies!:ok:

Alouette II Para Drop ...
 

Alouette II Para Drop at FAPM ...

Here is a series of pics from a para drop I did with the classic Aloutte II at FAPM earlier this year. Heli jumps are always a novelty for skydivers and because I was once a jumpmaster at this same club (Pietermaritzburg Parachute Club), we arranged to do a trial jump from the Alo.

I spoke to an ex British Army pilot who flew Alo II's many years ago and he said it was a dream for this kind of work.

We got the neccessary permissions and then did proper preparations over an afternoon before eventually getting a late afternoon jump in.

Alo climbed at 1200fpm comfortably at 55kts to 7000' amsl - great aircraft!

All went well... skydivers were pros ... smooth climbout and clean exit and wouldn't have known they had left ... except for big change in weight and CofG on exit as anticipated (still not nice!).


http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_01.jpg

Preparing the Alo for the para drop at FAPM ...



http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_02.jpg

Revamped Alo II cockpit and panel, very nice ...



http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_03.jpg

Jumpmaster preps and briefs for exit ...



http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_06.jpg

Skydiving team making sure the exit is going to be smooth ...



http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_05.jpg

Getting in, ready to go ...



http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_07.jpg

Takeoff at FAPM, looking for 7000' ...


http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r..._skydve_08.jpg

Canopies open, all well, great flying and skydiving ...


Blue Skies!

:ok:

Snow in KZN Midlands ...
 

South Africans ... Snow in KZN Midlands!

This will be of interest to South Africans from KZN. It only snows
in some of these areas evey 30 years (from what I have been
told) and makes these particular pics almost historical .. Sorry to
bore all you rotorheaders flying and living in snow bound areas ...
you can ignore these if you like ...

The morning after the 'historic' snowfall an aerial photographer
friend asked me to take him up in a Robbie to take pics of the
snow ...

We landed at Rawdon's hotel soon after taking off from Howick
(3400') with near full fuel, heavy pax, lighter me, and photog
equipment ...

He ran out of film sooner than planned and we had to land
with closer to AUW (much higher than our take off point) that I
enjoyed, not having burned off as much fuel as I hoped. Tricky ...
I took off on my own from there and he walked to an open field
for the next take off ... no worries ...

Some great frozen white scenery in areas usually only green, green, green ...

Four quick pics ...


http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...r22snow_02.jpg

Rawdon's Hotel near Nottingham Road ... for those who know it,
you don't often see it looking like this ... !




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...r22snow_01.jpg

We were met by Basil Maine of Jim Green Footware in
matching-colour 4wheeler ... nice touch ... Where were the
Reindeer ... ?




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...r22snow_04.jpg

Landed near Kamberg mountain to have some coffee and change
films again ... what a beautiful place ... silent and expansive ...
that's photographer Chris Moore sorting out coffee and sandwiches ...




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...r22snow_03.jpg

KZN Wildlife's Giants Castle camp in the valley just below the
freezing level - a unique perspective ... flying at about 7800' amsl
here ... pretty cold with the door off ...!


Blue Skies! :ok:

Heliport..

Flew one of them 47's here in the US!, One of our students bought one.I think there's only about 5 left flying. Flew really nice, a little heavy though.
Great Pics on here!! keep them coming!, we have now our Bell 47 restored in MASH 4077 colours, looks lovely, will get a picture on here soon.

Darren

More S70s
 

Seeing John Eacott's pictures of the US Presidential BlackHawks reminded me of these shots I had lurking on the hard drive. They were taken in June 2000 while my crew and I were on task in the Temburong National Park in Brunei.

The Sultan's Royal Flight - significantly reduced in size since 1998 - included a handful of these S70s. I believe that the aircraft which are now the LA Firehawks were originally to have supplemented this fleet, before the money ran out in Brunei... As you'd expect from the Sultan, the aircraft want for nothing by way of fitments; kid leather pilots seats, very-heavy-metal fittings everywhere. Massive air-conditioner on the side, but the crew were happy they had enough power available OEI to sort out any of the places they fly into.

Don't know the story behind the wacky paintwork along the side - I did hear a theory, but would prefer to hear the real version from someone who knows :confused:

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...runei%2001.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...runei%2002.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...runei%2003.jpg

As always, huge thanks to John Eacott who, despite the rapid transition from the ski season to what sounds like a potentially-busy fire-fighting session still finds time to help us lazy b******s out!

someone sent me this but i cannot find the email.

if it is yours then jst use the url and i will delete mine.

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

Part of the Mexico City police fleet, two other airworthy aircraft missing from the picture, minus the crashed 212 and a 206 B3

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

Not sure if this has been posted or where I got it but I love this pic.

http://www.pro-mods.com/hosting/Heli...0Refueling.jpg

Flying the R44II in East Africa
 

Based in Kigali, Rwanda, Akagera Aviation the sole operator of civil helicopters in this country.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lif6a77a19.jpg
One of the three R44 Raven II....here in Gisenyi, close to the Congo border



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...lif6a77a06.jpg
Crossing the mountains at 9000ft...



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...if6a847a27.jpg
...at our base in Kigali. The Russian MI17s are used by the Rwanda Air Force and also by the UN



Flyheli
Thanks for posting your pictures.
You were having a problem because the site you use to host your photographs doesn't allow direct links.
I've hosted them for you.

Heliport

Thanks Blender.
Appreciate what you do every month.

B.

Optical illusion.
If you concentrate on the picture for 20 seconds a helo appears in the background. :)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...C/B47model.jpg

The shots from Bronx and CanajunEh? are a difficult act to follow...

So I'll go for dead-boring instead.

Some pics from where I live and work now:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rrent_type.jpg

My current type, with a USN SH3 in the background.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...talianB412.jpg

Italian Army AB412.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...unwellOH58.jpg

Battle-damaged OH58D awaiting transport out-of-theatre.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...nanutshell.jpg

Kuwait in a nutshell

The site you're using to host your photographs doesn't allow direct links so they won't display consistently.
I've hosted them for you.

Heliport

Two thoughts:

1) If you're in a tank with the wrong flag painted on the side you're having a really bad day

2) If you're a (iraqi) farmer, get your old gun and shoot that multi-million dollar weapons platform out of the sky (it happened before)


Great photo though!
DJG

Hey Heliport, that's not a screen capture from the movie "Firebirds", is it?

More Zululand Rhino Capture Pics
 

More Game Capture Pics From Zululand, South Africa

Here are some more pics, this time from a black rhino capture ops for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Black Rhino Range Expansion Project.
A Russian owned MIL-8 helicoper normally used for fire fighting ops was used to lift the 1000Kg rhinos out of the Wilderness areas,where there are no roads and no motorised transport is allowed.
Pilots are Richard Brodie and Anatoly ?, and flight engineer is Peter.


http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...l8_gcap_01.jpg

MIL-8 just after landing in the bush near the darted rhino to drop off the ground capture team who have gone to prepare the rhino for lifting ...




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...l8_gcap_03.jpg

Rhino in the net on the ground in Imfolozi Game Reserve just before lifting ... Mil-8 taking up the slack ...




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...l8_gcap_06.jpg

MIL-8 cockpit - Pilots Richard Brodie and Anatoly on route overhead the Imfolozi Wilderness to where the rhino has been darted ...




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...-8_Sun_231.jpg

MIL-8 just preparing to lift the darted rhino from an open grassland in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park Eastern Shores wilderness area ...





http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...-8_Sun_239.jpg

Sedated black rhino in the net ... Mil-8 transitioning to forward flight on route to the Eastern Shores temp base ....




http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/r...l8_gcap_08.jpg

Pilots, rangers and ground crew the Mpila Camp soccer field in Imfolozi Game Reserve ... overcast Wx ... checking all equipment before first flight ... note very clean

(brand new) net (didn't stay like that for long!) ...


Cheers till next time ... more to be posted later ...

Choppersafari :ok:

Having fun in North Wales!

http://www.scottdevelopments.co.uk/images/dscf0313b.jpg

Posted by MarcK on another thread.

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

test flying a tomcat,


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

Amberley Air Show
 

A few pics I took at the 2004 Amberley Air Show.
http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....160eff0129.jpg

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....7aa05be1c3.jpg

and one for the plank drivers...
http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....e745c409a1.jpg

Cheers,

Hollywood :cool:

Anyone care to explain the second picture posted by the capt. please?

I think this took place in Afganistan, the Mexican Air Force tried exactly the same think with one of their Mi26's but they were trying to pull out a downed Mi17 instead a Chinook, and let's just say that after that try, they had to truck BOTH aircraft out of there in pieces.

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PP...6vsChinook.jpg

Looks can be deceiving!
 

Jared,

The two Australian Navy Squirrels were heading towards each other in front of the crowd. They did a quickstop to end up facing each other in the hover seemingly only feet away. The aircraft on the right is actually passing in front of the other aircraft it's just my position on the ground that makes it appear as though they're much closer, parallax error and all that!

Cheers,

Hollywood :cool: