Tag Archives: aerial

Aussie crop dusters

Very cool video filmed by the guys at Jones Air, Australia. Great images showing the dangers but also the thrills of aerial crop dusting. This job requires not only great skill but also a lot of attention, one of the main reasons this profession has such a high number of fatal accidents is the high […]

K-MAX aerial truck

Produced by Kaman, the K-Max or K-1200 is an American helicopter with intermeshing rotors optimized for external load operations. Because the K-Max does not have a tail rotor, all the power goes directly to the rotors and so this little bugger can take off with almost 3 tons of payload. Not a speedy devil, but […]

Skyfighters

Skyfighters is the English title given to the French movie “Les chevaliers du ciel”. The film was marketed as the French Top Gun and I don’t think it was a blockbuster mainly due to the ridiculous plot. The film was however very impressive under one aspect and that is the aerial footage, probably some of […]

Mirage F1 low level action in Chad

These pilots probably have the time of their lives in Chad. No restrictions, no nothing… just man and machine in a great playground. The Mirage F1 is a very rugged airplane suited to the conditions in Chad where it performs aerial reconnaissance missions. These missions are known as “leisure missions” since pilots have quite a […]