Archive for: August 2010

Civilian evacuees board US Marine helicopter inside US Embassy compound to be helilifted to the US Seventh Fleet ahead of Communist troops about to enter Saigon on the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30th 1975 — Image by © Nik Wheeler/Corbis

An unlikely setting for this GR Lamp Letter Box, on the remote Hebridean Isle of Pabay, which has no ferry service and can only be reached by boat or helicopter, just behind is the bow section of what looks like an ex military power boat in use as a shed, …

The Defence Forces have deployed Army and Air Corps assets to assist fire-fighting efforts in the North West of the country today. An Air Corps AW 139 helicopter fitted with a specialist under slung Bambi Bucket is currently dropping water on fires in the Dungloe area. The Bambi bucket has …

At Whitecliff Recreation Ground, on the edge of Poole Harbour. This is the helipad for Poole General Hospital and a local decompression chamber. Many SAR helicopter movements to this pad in the summer months are divers with "the bends" needing decompression

Airforce Iroquois helicopter taking off from Cramner Square during the September 2010 Earthquake Emergency from my work office window.

110319-N-DM338-068.PACIFIC OCEAN (March 19, 2011) Sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) load humanitarian assistance supplies onto an HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4. Ronald Reagan is operating off the coast of Japan providing humanitarian assistance as …