NH Industries NH-90 performance at Paris Airshow 2017 #Aircraft #Airshow #Avgeek #Aviation #France #Helicopter #Hubschrauber #Military #NH90 #NHIndustries #Paris #ParisAirshow #PAS17 #Travel #photography (Instagram 04.02.2018)

me adding fuel to the fire aka inba on fedi to see how shitstorm goes bonkers, just for fun, ’cuz bored
#fyp #helicopter #fire

#CALFIRE contract #helicopter crash yesterday in the Sierra National Forest. Pilot treated and expected to be okay. #wildfires https://abc30.com/helicopter-crash-sierra-national-forest-under-investigation-tea-fire/13760527/

How the ‘Free #Helicopter Rides’ Meme Went Viral;
Referencing the dark history of the #Pinochet regime in Chile, the #ProudBoys have sought to desensitize people against targeted #violence by making it a joke.
https://visunews.substack.com/p/how-the-free-helicopter-rides-meme

Les familles des victimes du crash de l'hélico qui a couté la vie au président du club de foot de Leicester City attaque Leonardo, alors que les enquêteurs l'ont dédouané @LDO_Helicopters #Leonardo #AW169 #Leicester #lcfc #crash #helicopter #BEA

https://www.aerobuzz.fr/helicoptere/le-crash-dun-helicoptere-leonardo-aw169-du-a-une-grave-avarie-sur-le-rotor-anti-couple/

He loves a big chopper, does our Rishi.

Tories, eh? Wasn’t it another one (Cameron) who had £12m spent on converting an RAF Voyager into a sort of Air Force One (“Dave Force One”) to ferry him and his successors around, at their beck and call?

#Sunak #Transport #Helicopter

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/30/rishi-sunaks-helicopter-transport-will-not-be-renewed

Government shelves £40m contract for helicopter transport for Rishi Sunak | Rishi Sunak | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/30/rishi-sunaks-helicopter-transport-will-not-be-renewed

#Sunak
#PM
#Helicopter
#PMTransport
#MOD
#HMG
#RotaryWingCommandAirSupportAirTransportHelicopterService
#RAF
#SloaneHelicopters

Two dead in the helicopter crash in #Florida of a #Broward Fire/Rescue #helicopter. #aviation #accident #death https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66623809

Everything connected with this 'government' today, especially, is turning my stomach. Repellent, abhorrent financial predators with not a shred of morality or humanity amongst them. #Kuwait #Helicopter #Water #Bibby

A Chinook I photographed at RIAT 2018.
#avgeek #helicopter

Russian #Helicopter Pilot #Defects in Astonishing Saga Worthy of Hollywood

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/20857

Finally done editing the video of our #Flugtag at #EDVY: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/mWfNGE6CAeS6zYP4nUqNQc
#aviation #generalaviation #cessna #piper #robin #aircraft #helicopter #portawestfalica #flying

#helicopter #gifs #skill

Hackaday Links: August 20, 2023 - In some ways, we’ve become a little jaded when it comes to news from Mars, which a... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/20/hackaday-links-august-20-2023/ #coronalmassejection #shouldhaveuseda555 #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #sanfrancisco #self-driving #helicopter #navigation #bombscare #ingenuity #robotaxi #exploit #slider #defcon #escape #ansi #mars #cme #imu

#DYK São Paulo, Brazil provides a good overview of what #UAM traffic could look like. Downtown SP accommodates >400,000 annual #helicopter operations in close proximity w/ 2 hub #airports. These ops have been performed with a remarkable level of #safety. 🚁

#AerialMobility #aviation #engineering #FutureReady #infrastructure #VerticalFlight #vertiports

I realised today while reading some cheesy sci-fi which has a scene set on it that #Phobos is basically the astronomical version of a #helicopter. A loose collection of parts turning at roughly the same speed around their centre, which will eventually fall out of the sky because it's too damned ugly to be allowed to fly.

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Forever Young (1992)

This is a romance drama / sci-fi written and produced by Jeffrey Abrams (JJ Abrams). It's basically a Rip Van Winkle story about a guy in 1939 who ends up volunteering for some advanced cryogenic experiment, gets frozen, and wakes up in 1992.

The story manages to avoid most of those hackneyed anachronistic encounters of a guy who's misplaced in time; it really sticks to the romance, emotions, and characters, and this guy's quest to find his old friends from 1939. The film has the feel of a Spielberg film, particularly ET, which was produced a decade earlier. It’s sentimental, almost sappy. It's commercial -- very much so -- and tries to appeal to multiple demographics. Jerrald Goldsmith, who scored Logan’s Run (which was last week’s Film of the Week), created the exceptional score for this movie, and overall it’s a well produced film. Some of the plot points seemed forced and unrealistic, placed in the story simply to create tension, not uncommon for a Hollywood film.

With Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead roles, the acting is world class, although neither of those actors completely disappear into their roles. Elijah Wood also has a major role and gives a great performance as the ten-year-old son of Curtis’ character. Isabel_Glasser plays Gibson’s character’s love interest, but oddly doesn’t get as much screen time as the other leads.

There's only one black character in the film (Joe Morton), a researcher who was portrayed as antagonistic and in this story was unable to figure out the design of the cryogenic apparatus that was created by a white character (George Wendt) fifty years earlier. This type of depiction of black characters was typical of films produced prior to the Rodney King beating and LA riots which broke out just as initial filming for this film was wrapping up. Other than that, I saw no other significant bias or racial stereotypes.

As far as technology, there wasn’t much, basically just the cryro-chamber, which had a steam-punk design that was out of place for the pre-war time period.

Overall the film is worth watching, just don’t expect much in terms of science fiction gadgetry, aliens, spaceships, etc.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #physics #B25 #helicopter #military #warehouse #1990s #Buford

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movie poster with Mel Gibson’s face covering most of the poster and a small image of Gibson and Isabel Glasser embracing and kissing.

Reading the latest #nasa #callback and wondering if criminals are using #drones to disrupt #police #helicopter #surveillance. Read the “Game On” section.
#aviation #security #asrs #hashtags https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/publications/callback/cb_523.html

Helicopter Footage From Mass Arrest Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities, Tactics, and Communications https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/helicopter-footage-from-mass-arrest-reveals-state-trooper-surveillance-capabilities-tactics-and-communications/ #Police #Tech #646 #646+ #aerial_surveillance #Bell_407 #helicopter #kettle #mass_arrest #MInneapolis #Minneapolis_Police #Minnesota_State_Patrol #msp #N119SP #Protest #spy_chopper #spy_plane #state_trooper #Surveillance #surveillance_camera #

Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Finds More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecerTqjwxE&ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21

In the wake of ProPublica's bombshell report detailing even more lavish #gifts from #rightwing #billionaires to Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas, five House Democrats are calling on the Justice Department to #investigate Thomas under the #Ethics in Government Act for accepting the series of gifts from wealthy #benefactors without following #disclosure laws. Federal judges are required to disclose gifts worth more than $1,000 — including travel. ProPublica's report documents Justice Thomas accepting 38 destination #vacations, 26 #privatejet flights, 12 VIP #passes to sporting events and eight #helicopter flights, all paid for by wealthy #patrons. We speak with co-author of the #ProPublica #investigation Brett Murphy about the process of revealing these lavish gifts and why even other #judges consider it "an unprecedented amount of #largesse for a justice to be accepting, let alone accepting and not disclosing."