WIXers make World Headlines

[needle]

Well actually it was the front cover of the June 2008 edition of World Airshow News.

"FG1D-Pilot" in the front, "Needle" in the back!

http://www.airshowmag.com/

Great article on "Mr. Cavanugh's Air Force" by Jim Froneberger, and great photos by Scott Slocum.

Julian

[The Inspector]

GREAT...I'm gonna go put on Talking Heads 'In time of war' for the next hour because now the greater world knows we exist....

[CAPFlyer]

Great news. Did you get to show off the Bell for the cameras Julian?

[needle]

Great news. Did you get to show off the Bell for the cameras Julian?

The biggest problem with the little Bell is, every time it gets close to the ground, it blows up large amounts of dirt and dust. All the spectators then turn around and look in the other direction to avoid getting dust in their eyes. This also includes all those people with a camara. This means that there are very few pics of the Bell when close to the ground.

When we are in the air, it tends to look like a large insect, and nobody on the ground seems to have a camara that can focus properly on a see-thru fish bowl attached to a metal lattice "fence".

When we try to air to air photography, we are travelling so slowly, the only aircraft that can stay with us are WWI aircraft, and everyone is taking pictures of them and not us.

So, in summary, any good pictures of the Bell, operating at more than 0" off the ground are very rare!


So we just have to make do with some pictures taken when the aircraft was on the ground without the engine running.…….but then you have to deal with spectators getting in front of the camera lens.


(Photo by Scott Slocum)

Julian

[CAPFlyer]

I can think of a great way to solve your problem Julian - put the cameraman in another Bell 47.

[RareBear]

I sure didn't see that spectator when I was there on Thursday.

Walt