Hughes / MD Helicopters (McDonnell Douglas Helicopter)

[Tonyz]

And one of the old Border Patrol OH-6's.  THese old clunkers are still flying, which is amazing considering they have combat time on them from Vietnam.

[Roger]

Great shots Tony, quite a nice variety of choppers!

I love these themed threads!

Roger

[Rotor]

Caught this one in the local business park last year.  A pair of motorcyclists collided with some pretty tragic results...

1/2 second handheld at 100mm amazingly enough.

-Mike

[Rotor]

Kidding, only kidding.  Yeesh.

Back on topic, ASTREA on the pad before every photographer's dream: "Brown Tower, permission to buzz the truck in the middle of the field"

Thanks goes to Tony who got me that spot.

-Mike

[Tonyz]

ASTREA being the San Diego County Sheriff's Dept helicopter....

[Rotor]

With smoke from the fires Chad mentioned, interesting colors get thrown around with sunset.  Cought this Mercy Air MD900 Explorer at Palomar as the sun set on a very busy day for them.

-Mike

[Rotor]

MD900 up close in awesome lighting as the sun shines through layers of wildfire smoke as it sets.

[Rotor]

Border Patrol playing around on 1 skid down at MYF for a 6-helo memorial flyover.

[Rotor]

Absolutley gorgeous 4:30AM lighting.  

[Rotor]

My photos of this girl keep getting more and more interesting...

[Rotor]

A couple of the local Sheriffs helo headed out today.  Full frame at 38mm... man was it windy.  Mucho, mucho gracias to gungadan and his cohorts for the access and mini-airshow.

-Mike

[Rotor]

Northern Mercy in the eastern light.

[Rotor]

"Yep, that does indeed appear to be a photographer sitting on our pad with a fisheye lens.  What an idiot."

[Rotorblades.US]

I used to like hinds...but IMHO they're kinda ugly.  I'm not a fan of military colors either...I like colorful helos!!!

Here's a shot from a while back and the same image used for my website.  This is a small crop of a much larger picture.  Photo taken at Falcon Field in Mesa AZ with Agfa Ultra 100.  More Agfa Ultra pictures coming tomorrow too (film getting developed)!

[Rotorblades.US]

Very good shots Dan, the last one is very good.

Here's one of my favorites out of the batch that got developed yesterday.  This is a Hughes 369C pieced together with a 369D model engine and a "yanerd" nose while still maintaining the original 4 bladed main rotor system and v-tail.  The pilot/owner is enroute to CA from FL.  Full frame, no cropping & shot with Agfa Ultra 100.