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A Hong Kong Government Flying Service (GFS) helicopter Super Puma Mark 2 made a controlled emergency landing in Shing Mun Reservoir around 10.30 am today (December 27) while picking up water from the reservoir for hill fire fighting operation. Mechanical failure is suspected to be the cause of the emergency landing. Three crew members onboard have safely exited the helicopter. The three crew me...

Photos taken for about 2 hours out of my window at Villa Esplanada on Tsing Yi island in Hong Kong. This is another test of my GoPro Hero HD's time lapse feature. For video encoding (and putting the series of images together) I used Quicktime Pro. Quality of the uploaded movie wasn't really great because I have cropped the high resolution images and I used the quick encoding optimized for strea...

4 July 2010 Pearl News at 7:30 with more info on the AW139 accident in Hong Kong.

A helicopter crashed into the sea area between the Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsular on Saturday noon, and all 13 persons onboard have been rescued, sustaining slight injuries, the city's police told Xinhua. Hong Kong police said all the injured have been rushed to nearby Queen Mary Hospital. The 13 persons include 11 passengers and two crew members. The crash site, the sea area, abou...

Autorotational Procedures in the Bell JetRanger

Autorotational Procedures in the Bell JetRanger

Frank Robinson in an excerpt of the RHC Pilot Safety Course at the helicopter factory in Torrance, California.

Chelton Flight System's HeliSAS Digital Autopilot employs an all-digital design that supports all conventional autopilot modes, as well as Chelton's unique Highway-In-The-Sky roll and pitch steering (when optionally coupled to Chelton's Synthetic Vision EFIS). The initial STC will be on the Robinson R-44 with Bell 206/407 and Eurocopter AS350/355 following shortly thereafter. Part 2

Chelton Flight System's HeliSAS Digital Autopilot employs an all-digital design that supports all conventional autopilot modes, as well as Chelton's unique Highway-In-The-Sky roll and pitch steering (when optionally coupled to Chelton's Synthetic Vision EFIS). The initial STC will be on the Robinson R-44 with Bell 206/407 and Eurocopter AS350/355 following shortly thereafter. Part 1

Vince Gironda himself explaining "proper curls".