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What it is , a passing Chinook !!
The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service including fighting in the Falklands War, peace-keeping commitments in the Balkans, Northern Ireland and action in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The Chinook aircraft, normally based at RAF Odiham, provides heavy-lift support and transport across all branches of the British armed forces. The RAF has a total of 60 Chinooks in active inventory as of 2015. In 2018, the UK issued a request to the United States to purchase 16 additional aircraft. The Chinook is expected to remain in RAF service until the 2040s.
Thank goodness they announce their coming and then you get a chance to get into a good position to grab a couple of shots , the only info I got on this one is that it came from Bournemouth way .
A crew from the Peruvian Air Force's Escuadron Aereo de Helicopteros 332 departs a dirt LZ in the Arizona during a rescue scenario as part of exercise Angel Thunder 2017.
'Intimidator,' the Pima Air and Space Museum's MH-53M Pave Low IV with flappy rotor blades during a rather gusty windstorm.
Rotors from an Enigma cipher machine at Bletchley Park. These rotors were set prior to encoding messages. The more rotors, the more complicated the task of de-ciphering the codes.
Zaterdag - Saturday 16 November 2024
SP-YHH was present at the Exhibition 'European Rotors' at the RAI Congres Center in Amsterdam from 7-24 November 2024. It arrived by air from a Helispot at Schwaförden in Germany. After the Exhibition ended at 8 november the weather was bad and the decision was made to move it with a ‘Heli-Shuttle’ Low Loader by road to Heli Centre at Lelystad Airport.
Due to continuous bad weather the return to the Helispot at Schwaförden took place at 16 november.
First the UH-1D made a local flight with 2 members of the HeliCenter staff. Grass flying around .....
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Registration : SP-YHH , ex 70+81 German AirForce
Type : Dornier-Bell UH-1D Iroquois
C/N : 8177
Build : 1969
Owner : Private
Flight : Schwaförden
Location : EHLE
RAF Westland Puma HC2 Helicopter XW224 230 Sqn
This Helicopter was constructed as a HC1 and made its first flight in 1972 and has now been converted to a HC2
Photo taken at North Weald Airfield Merlin Way North Weald Bassett Epping UK
Jetfest 2019
North Weald aerodrome was a RAF Fighter station during WWII
BAC_3524
No, I didn't rotate this shot...
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) B0105
Registration: N154EH
Holloman AFB Airshow 2007
Photo by www.kensaviation.com
Explore #64
A group visit to RAF Odiham in the spring of 1982 gave me sight of several Chinooks, which had only entered service in November 1980. Shown here is ZA682 wearing an 18 squadron badge on the fin. Since those days, many more Chinooks have joined the fleet and most have been upgraded resulting in different designations. However, this one was still a plain old HC.1 at the time and was not withdrawn until 2024.
Odiham, Hampshire
4th March 1982
Pentax MX, Kodachrome 64
19820304 19410 ZA682 Odiham clean
Small personal flyer
Just a small thing i did around the time when Lego cancelled their Technic Osprey.
Or to use the acronym, NOTAR, is a system that replaces the need for a tail rotor in helicopters. The main user of this is the MD902 and related models, and the concept was developed by Hughes but now the rights to it are held by Boeing. The MD900 and MD902 are products of an independent company, but have their roots in McDonnell Douglas' purchase of Hughes Helicopters.
I am not technically minded, but the Wikipedia article may give a half decent explanation for the lay person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAR
This MD902, G-EHMS, is operated by the London Air Ambulance, and given that this type of helicopter produces less noise than most, it must have been a factor when deciding which chopper to procure.
Walthamstow, London
15th June 2022
20220615 2I8A 2349
Signes de reconnaissance : patins, double aileron (en H) à l'arrière, biturbines, rotor à 4 pales, rotor bipales à l'arrière.
Variantes : L'UH145 est la version militaire, appelée UH72 Lakota ou AAS73X aux Etats-Unis.
Date 1er vol : 12 juin 1999
Production : L'EC145 est le mariage d'un BK117 (rotor anticouple conventionnel, cabine allongée) et d'un EC135 (cockpit, avionique). Il fut d'abord appelé BK117-C2. Comme le BK117 il est coproduit avec Kawasaki (KHI). L'UH72 est fabriqué par American Eurocopter à Colombus dans le Mississippi.
I tried reverse engineering what it looked like Brickmania did with their Hind D, and changed it a little. Came up with this.
The tail rotor of a Royal Navy Sea King rescue helicopter of 771 Naval Air Squadron from RNAS Culdrose.
I've got a lot to do at the moment, but every once in a while i find the time to grab my camera and take a few new shots.
I realized that most (sensible) arrangements of triangles in the plane have an analogue pattern in the amizade family. so decided to fold something like the midnight sun.
now I cannot decide if it looks more like concentric stars or more like a windmill's rotor to me.
of course now the door is open for experimentation with the distances between the stars. stay tuned... ;-)
This aircraft was seen flying near where an Air Show [Hangar 24 AirFest] was held yesterday in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Tilt-rotor aircraft allow vertical take-offs and landings, horizontal flight, and ability to hover.
The Bristol Belvedere is a British twin-engine (Napier Gazelle), tandem-rotor military helicopter. It was designed for a variety of transport roles including troop transport, supply dropping and casualty evacuation. The Belvedere was Britain's only tandem-rotor helicopter to enter production, and one of the few not built by Piasecki or Boeing; 26 were built. The extended forward undercarriage is a consequence of an earlier cancelled naval design which required room for fitting torpedoes under the airframe; this requirement was not corrected when the RAF variant was ordered.
With its large reserve of power, the Belvedere was able to carry up to 2.7 tonnes of freight. Bulky loads could be underslung. As a troop transport it could carry 18 fully-armed troops, or, in the casevac role, 12 stretcher cases.
It was operated by the RAF from 1961 to 1969, participating in a variety of operations involving withdrawal from Empire. Belvederes based in Aden (now in southern Yemen) operated in 1963 against rebels in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and in support of Army Radfan operations in southern Arabia.
Those helicopters were transferred to Singapore by Navy commando carrier in 1965 and provided support to Army operations in Brunei during the Confrontation with Indonesia. In this campaign they received the nickname 'Flying Longhouse' after the distinctive native huts in the area.
The requirement for them in Singapore ended, resulting in a commando carrier returning the helicopters to the UK in 1969, pretty much straight into retirement.