Cruising the Sky

Another great video from Evert Cloetens:  Cruising the Sky on Vimeo

Eagle

This is one of the best shot, best produced helicopter videos I've seen. Fantastic panoramas in the clouds and a great 360 roll around the Eagle. And Adele is icing on the cake:

Eagle on Vimeo

Random Photo

Our 412 at 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Station.  As my friend reminds me, the Marine Corps may be a Department of the Navy, but it's the Men's Department.  


The photo is Jim Langley's, surreptitiously taken from Nibecker's Facebook page.     

Good Times

A friend just send this photo of me, next to an AStar I had just flown to the middle of nowhere in Baja California.  Drinking coffee and enjoying the mountaintop scenery, how much better could it get?  

(Photo is by Antonio Mercadoh, thanks for sending.  Ebmiggen the photo to see the famous Starbucks mug in my hand)

Hotel California

If you're going to fly helicopters, you might as well go big.  


I meant to post this on April's Fools Day, but forgot.  While the rotor blade concept is actually taken from a Soviet helicopter design, the rest of it is fictional.  But slick nonetheless.  

20,000 Rubber Balls, Part II

I'm sure golf ball dropping from a helicopter is somewhat common, but doing it from a brand spanking new 3 million dollar twin engine helicopter certainly ups the ante.   This is the same airframe, by the way, that I fly doing EMS.  The photo is worth embiggening, too.  

Dogs and Helicopters, Part 2

As a followup to a previous post, Wendi just sent me a picture of two Marine Corps dogs taking a ride in our 412 helicopter out at 29 Palms, to get them acclimated to the noise and activity.  'Cute' does not come to mind, but they are beautiful, smart, and about to have a lot of fun.