500e......this will be a specialist publication,
not to everyone's taste. The sort of thing you
would peruse alone on the Internet after your
wife has gone to work. A bit like PA News come
to think of it!!:)

Card or centre spread
 

Centre spread of LT! now that would be a "Dont look Ethel" moment.
I didnt see the elusive LT card while wandering around a quiet hangar in Stav at xmas, but then I havent got a Specialist magic card which allows one to enter the upper sanctuary where it might have been on display on Jooeps desk :oh:

Cant wait to see the new pics of LT holding court at Heli Expo. Will she arrive in a 600N in a leopard skin or the mighty wellies this year? I sadly wont be there in the sunshine, but hope our american cousins can keep us all updated :E

FF
Now I understand, Parental control button required :ok:

Yesterday was a great day for MD as for the first time ever I saw an Explorer over my house on deepest darkest Dartmoor, what a lovely site and erily quite as well. Seeing it is a yellow one I presume the Devon air ambulance is dead for a while ( 135) ?

Hughes, the yellow Exploder may well have been G-LNAA, the ex-Lincs and Notts Air Ambo, which PAS use as the backup for the Trinity House contract. I have to agree that they are much more pleasant neighbours than the Exeter 117C2, though.

btw - you must've been out on Dartmoor at a different time from when I was walking the dogs. Couldn't see hand in front of face for all the horizontally-arriving wet stuff; wouldn't have wanted to be VFR around Cox Tor/ Princetown in that.

T & B
Saw her twice while out with my chain saw tackling some overgrown woods. Seem to earn more with chainsaw than I do flying these days !!!!

Ah, careful then please Hughes! One of my past tasks on the N Devon a/c was to one of the Moltons to pick up a gentleman who'd been bitten by one of those infernal things. He had absolutely every safety device/ clothing item you could think of, but still managed to get the undefended back of his leg. Makes me squirm to remember it! Mind you, he and his site team managed the incident very well - commendable under the circumstances.

Thud; we attended similar 2 months ago in the wilds of Lincolnshire. The chain saw had 'brushed' his neck. At the base of the large open wound his carotid artery lay open, exposed, pulsing but undamaged! Talk about a millimeter from disaster!

G-LNAA; what a well looked after machine these last ten years! Will she forgive me? I almost feel guilty polishing our new one!

T and B
Yup I try very hard not to kill myself with the infernal thing, must be the most dangerous thing around, mind you I am just trying to buy a 600 at the moment ( honestly) as prices are pretty cheap !

stav oracle
 

A man on the inside of Joeps empire mentioned this snippet down at Stav. It just goes to show Joep and his merry ex RDM band are never far from LT and MD.
Is Henk going to pop through the back door to the sunshine once again?

dated 23/2/2011
MD Helicopters, Inc.: Board of Directors - BusinessWeek

Aerospace and Defense

MD Helicopters, Inc.

and another mention here

undefined (undefined): Board Members Relationships - BusinessWeek.

and here

Lynn Tilton Reviews | Board Member | MD Helicopters, Inc. Employee | Telonu

Randy Kesterson Reviews | Chief Operating Officer | MD Helicopters, Inc. Employee | Telonu

I wonder who is pulling the LT strings at MD after all ;)

One has to wonder when an "intrest" is a healthy one or when someone is being consumed by an intrest. The deal is- no-one understands why things are done the way they are "by" or "at" MD. No-one on the outside can influence it, so sit back and watch the show. The company is hers, the choice for the company to succed or fail is hers. If you want a 500 they will always be available on the used market at the very least. The sad part is that the loss of the Explorer could be the loss of the best light twin on the market today (argueably).

That little list of basic questions about the company, the 500 and 902 about sums up the basic questions that need to be asked when Ms T is on parade at the MDH Press Conference in a [relatively] few days time.

That is when it will be answered or avoided.

That is when the speculation can come onto the boil or off it.....

Remember LT was given a "Living Legends in Aviation" award recently? - all the photos have just been posted online by the organisers.

There's this one for the speech bubble writers among you, and this one for all those who feels that LT needs your support

That reminds me.... Shrove Tuesday is coming up....

Nice set of t.t..t...

teeth.

now whats that expression, seem to remember mutton and lamb being in it :(?

looks like a cocked up version of dolly parton :}

You'd think with all that money swilling around in her coffers, she'd be able to find a decent cosmetic surgeon by now.

PAN.......:ok::}

PPheli, have they been airbrushed by any chance?

PAN :ok:

That surely is a broom behind her preteding to be an umbrella :}

Don't leave just yet sports fans....................................