Round and Round

I could be wrong, but I suspect this pilot is having a pretty good time.  Probably not getting paid a great deal doing agricultural spraying, and probably, occasionally, scaring the bejeezus out of himself flying next to powerlines all day, but fun nonetheless.  

Faith

For an atheist, this is the manifestation of faith:  a dog doing what every evolutionary bone in his body tells him not to do, save for his belief that his handler will keep him safe.

But then again, maybe the dog realizes how impossibly cool it is to jump out of a helicopter into the water, and could care less what the guy next to him is doing.  

Happy Holidays

Christmas morning at sunrise, over the San Diego mountains.  The kid in the back has croup, hope it's not contagious. 

Scottrade Flashback

My one and only foray into commercials.  

The A Model

There is an old saying that one should never fly the A model of any helicopter, the inference being that there are kinks to be worked out.  'Kinks' is a euphemism for 'unexpected component failure'.  The Bell 222 had a kink in the form of the engine self destructing and in the process of disassembling itself would sometimes manage to take out the second engine sitting next to it.  

The photo above is the A model of the Bell 429, which I flew last week.  But just for 15 minutes, so I felt statistically safe.  Very nice avionics suite, excellent engine power, roomy cabin.  

Mechanic Humor

The 12,000 pound Bell 412, with an emoticon.  

Random Photo

Elizabeth Cook Peebles, a female helicopter pilot somewhere over the deserts of Arabia.

The local religion would have her draped in a burka and stripped of most of her rights. But by the happenstance occurrence of her being born somewhere else she's given a wink and a nod from her male passengers as they climb on board.


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