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Stories about flying planes and helicopters, discussions of technique and teaching.
Retracing yesterday’s morning flight, but southbound and in the afternoon. From Portland, Maine to Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Also available as a streaming 8K video.
Full post, including commentsA post in a helicopter pilots’ group: “Pandemic times” over the following photo.
Nobody came up with my preferred reaction (“You have to say global pandemic”). Sampling of the responses:
Portland again!
More importantly, after borrowing a car from the good folks at MAC Jets, lobster rolls downtown:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Also available as a streaming 8K video.
Full post, including commentsRunning out of exciting caption ideas for this series… Westport, Maine down to Portland:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Also available as a streaming 8K video.
Full post, including commentsAfter departing Vinalhaven towards KRKD
This photo is a favorite (steep bank in the helicopter to get the straight-down perspective):
Enough power for your Tesla, near Westport, Maine (but where does all of this power come from and what is it needed for in an apparently deserted part of the shoreline?):
Gourmet breakfast sandwich stop at Owl’s Head General Store:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Also available as a streaming 8K video.
Full post, including commentsFrom the Bar Harbor Airport we proceeded southwest to the Deer Isle Bridge (cost $900,000 to build in 1939, $17 million in today’s mini-dollars):
And for the sailors, North Haven and Vinalhaven:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Also available as a streaming 8K video.
Full post, including commentsDeparted BHB just before sunrise, south through Somes Sound and then around the east side of Mound Desert Island:
The Jackson Laboratory, a great place to stop for mice:
And then on to the main town for this part of Maine, so to speak… (Bar Harbor itself):
And finally a fly-over of the BHB airport:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Full post, including commentsBass Harbor to Southwest Harbor:
Northeast Harbor, a not-intolerable place to suffer through a summer 2020 COVID quarantine:
From Northeast Harbor to the core of Acadia National Park and the Park Loop Road:
Late afternoon light on Bar Harbor, Maine itself and then to the airport and Columbia for an overnight stop.
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
Full post, including comments… well, the Washington, D.C. area at least. From the FAA:
It is still possible to go IFR into three airports:
But VFR pilots and those based at GAI, for example, are denied the use of their aircraft during this most joyous of days.
Related:
Full post, including commentsCastine to the causeway from Trenton to Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park:
Down the west coast of Mount Desert Island to Bass Harbor:
From our Boston to Bar Harbor, Maine trip in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Tony Cammarata was in back with a door removed and a Nikon D850. Instrument student Vince Dorow and I were flying.
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