#helicopters

[aviatrix-ash]

Absolutely obsessed with this little creatur in a glass my job just gave me. 🥺💕

Lookit it's got wittle paws ;0;

[sovietpostcards]

"Taiga Landing" by Yuri Podlyasky (1977)

[scipunk]

Airwolf (1984)

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Churchill highlights – Day 2, with Discover Churchill

Taken November 2024

[madlori]

I read a thing the other day about the fundamental difference between flying a plane and flying a helicopter is that airplanes are dynamically stable but helicopters are dynamically unstable.

If you are flying a plane you can let go of the controls for a long time and it'll just fly along on its own. You can lose all your engine power and just glide for like 100 miles until you can find a place to land.

A helicopter, on the other hand, is like balancing on top of a column of air. You cannot let go of control at all. If you need to reach something in the cockpit, you have to shift hands and keep grip on the controls. You are constantly making minute adjustments with your hands to keep the blades balanced and your air column directly underneath you. A few seconds' loss of control and you will tip to the point that it's unrecoverable.

Something something maintaining constant, tight control Tommy Kinard's personality something something.

[nocternalrandomness]

AFSOC Pave Lows in Iraq - September 2008

[2022dirt]

Hail protection is important.

[usafphantom2]

Good Morning

@MAC_VSOG via X

[deutschland-im-krieg]

The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Humming Bird). It made its maiden flight in 1941 and several were used operationally in 1942 and beyond. They served in the Baltic, the Aegean and the Mediterranean. Only three of Anton Flettner's groundbreaking craft survived the war, two were taken to the US, one to Russia, the rest were destroyed by the Germans. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles of the Reich

[thecargays]

It’s a ‘90s themed week!

Freedom Factory’s Cars, Coffee, and Helicopters 🚗☕️🚁🇺🇸

[todaysdocument]

218 - Helicopters CH-46 - September 3, 1969

Record Group 127: Records of the U.S. Marine CorpsSeries: Black and White Photographs of Marine Corps Activities in VietnamFile Unit: Divider/Subject - 218 - Helicopters CH-46

35mm Negative

Vietnam

3d-4-2-247-69

3rd Mar Div

3 Sept 69 Photog:Cpl Zimmerman

Marine CH-46 lifts off from the Logistic Support Activity for the field to take in mail,food , water and other needed things for the companies in the field at Vandergrift Combat Base in Northern I Corps.

DEFENSE DEPT PHOTO (MARINE CORPS)

A800595

127 GVB - 218

This black and white photograph shows two helicopters with tandem rotors lifting off from an airfield.  Military personnel are in the foreground.

[aviatrix-ash]

I guess lil Bell 206 helis have my heart now cause I saw this mini Long Ranger in the Seattle museum of flight and now it's flying home with me >w>

The details in this lil guy are so cool, even all the little rivets and panel details are accurate to the real thing :3

[strip-weathers]

Helicopters and their folding rotors

Description to each picture:

1. Neutral - this is neutral state of helicopters. They have no feelings. They simply chill and mind their businesses. Their rotors stay in common and neutral way.

2. Surprised - Their rotors lift a lot in the air due the emergency or high level of adrenaline. Again when they feel relaxed, they simply pull their rotors back down to neutral position.

3. Flirty - when helicopter want to impress other helicopter due their meeting, they lean their rotors against their side. This shows affection and the beauty of their rotors and body also.

4. Sad - when are helicopters sad or feel miserable or demotivated, they pull their rotors backwards and downwards.

5. Crying - when helicopters cry, they pull their rotors completely down on both sides of them like dead flowers.

6. Scared - when helicopters are scared, they move their rotors straight to the sides due to high pressure and anxiety and clear discomfort.

7. Annoyed - when helicopters are annoyed, they pull their rotors backwards and upwards to show their clear annoyed feeling.

8. Slightly angry - now all of their rotors are pulled backwards due to high anger inside them. Do not make them angry even more. It can end up really bad.

9. Super angry - helicopter’s rotors are thrown into every side in the air to show their anger and protective side of them. Do not come closer to them if you don’t know how to calm them down.

Second picture:

Here you can see that they can use their rotors as arms due fight. They can slap each other with their rotors. The bigger rotors and more rotors are, the pain gets worse.

Mouth of helicopters can be small at the first sight but when they open their mouth, you can clearly see how big their mouth is and how many teeth they have. {this is only a sketch tho xD}

@the-great-old-grump here is it x3

[stop-war-ukraine]

On November 30, we mark the Day of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Air Force of the #Ukrainian Armed Forces!

This branch of the military is known as the "eyes" of the Air Force because its servicemen work tirelessly around the clock to detect and track hundreds of enemy aircraft, helicopters, #drones, bombs, and missiles.

They never take shelters during enemy attacks because their mission is to quickly identify hostile targets and relay this critical information to command posts. Then, aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, mobile fire groups, and electronic warfare units spring into action, and the country receives warnings of impending danger.

Thank you, our defenders 🫶

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Polar Bear "Jail" release, Churchill, MB

Taken November 2024

[jttlpgroup]