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RN Merlin

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:44 am
by Woodlouse2002
Well, you can't live 10 miles from RNAS Culdrose and ever expect the sky to be completely clear of helicopters. So I made the most of the midday sun and say out on the lawn in a deckchair, cat on lap and camera hanging off the back.

Sure enough ten minutes later I heard a familiar racket, looked around and saw...
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"Excellent" I thought. "It's coming right this way."

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:46 am
by Craig.
cool photos:) wonderful helicopter

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:06 am
by flyboy 28
Very nice. Love the second to last one. :)

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:57 pm
by Woodlouse2002
Well, Hagar has pointed out the errors of my resizing and took the original of pic no3 to have a bash himself.

Now everybody say "Ooooooh!"

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Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:38 pm
by Omag 2.0
Aaaaaah!  :)

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:47 pm
by ATI_7500
Eh?


Neat-o nonetheless.

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:13 am
by beaky
Very nice... goes to show that one can often just crop a big image down to 8x6 and save as JPEG with great results!
What's that chin pod thing? Radar?

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:11 am
by ATI_7500
What's that chin pod thing? Radar?


Aye.

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:31 am
by Craig.
for those who dont know, this is the helicopter that will become the next presidential helicopter. obviously it wont have that dome underneath. Or who knows it might. ::) :)

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:30 pm
by kingmarktheaviator
I will be at Culdrose next month flying the Grob Tutor, god knows why it wont be going from St Mawgan but the recent AEF's (for those unfamiliar that is Air Experience Flights) have been at Culdrose.  Ahh well at least i get to see some neat Hawks, Merlins and the blessed SEA KING!!!

Mark

Re: RN Merlin

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:33 pm
by alrot
the sequence seems like was gonna crash against the camera ,Great Photos  :o