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Getting higher w/ @anthelion.helicopters #anthelionhelicopters ✨
No matter what city I’m in, my connections are always on another level, big ups to @verizon for always keeping me connected! #Verizon #VZup #BetterMatters #brandpartner
Miss finding hidden gems, flying in the Canadian Rockies with @rockiesheli @travelalberta & the boy @blotch #travelalberta #rockiesheli ✨
Just want to fly 6,000 feet above Los Angeles with @killakristennn & @eric_scire with @anthelion.helicopters what can I say!? ♂️ what do you think @ig_color #AnthelionColor #AnthelionHelicopters #IG_COLOR
I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
Take me back to the night we met
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do
Haunted by the ghost of you
Take me back to the night we met…
Servicing the Mi 6, 1970s
Joe Biden lost the Afghan war and here’s a partial list of dangerous military equipment which cost billions of tax dollars that he lost to the Taliban when he ordered US troops to retreat last week:
American Aircraft, Equipment & Armored Vehicles
2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAPs
75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M3e5, Ford Rangers, Ford F350s, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles, etc.
45 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters
50 MD350G Scout Attack Helicopters
Unnumbered (classified) ScanEagle Military Drones
30 Military Version Cessnas
4 C-130s
29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tucano Ground Attack Aircraft
Over 50 Heavy Equipment, Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, and Excavators
Small Arms and Ammunition
61,000 M203 Rounds, 20,040 Grenades, Howitzers, Mortars + Thousands of Rounds
162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Communications Gear (laptops, servers, computer drives, decryption codes, etc)
16,000+ Night Vision Goggles, (Classified) New Technology Night Vision Scopes, Thermal Scopes and Mono Goggles
10,000 2.75” Air to Ground Rockets
Recon Equipment (ISR)
Laser Aiming Units
Thousands of pounds of Explosive Ordnance such as C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
2,520 Bombs
Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops ALL operational (classified information intact)
Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of .50 caliber
Large warehouse stockpile of plate carriers and body armor
Classified US Military HIIDE or Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics to allow access to classified documents and areas
I have no words for this incompetency… regardless of your political orientation, this gross failure of the Biden administration should concern you.
Happy 242nd Birthday to the United States Marine Corps! Cpl. Chan Lathung, a native of Oakland, Calif., and a crew chief with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), scans the surrounding area for insurgent activity during a general support flight over Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 27. The squadron flies several general support flights weekly delivering mail, food and ammunition to troops throughout the area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Isaac Lamberth)
“During my time on this deployment, I’ve come to really enjoy flying with HMH-362. I’ve been looking for opportunities to really spotlight the squadron since they are to be deactivated once they finish this deployment. The three American flags surrounding the corporal looked so patriotic and made me proud to be a Marine. To me, it showed there are young people in this country still willing to volunteer during wartime and go into harm’s way for their country. The Marine manning a .50 cal on the ramp with three American flags behind him really set off the photo and just screams ‘Merica. It makes one proud to be an American.”
“There is an unofficial saying that if a 53 is bleeding hydraulic fluid, then you know you’re safe, if it isn’t then you’re in trouble. The inside of a CH-53D Sea Stallion is very greasy, slippery and dirty and you’re constantly getting showered in hydraulic fluid. Some of the aircraft in HMH-362 have flown since the Vietnam War and are quite dirty.”
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Saying goodbye to civilization can be bittersweet, this trip it was all sweet.
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Humans Can’t Fly A Helicopter On Mars, And That’s Why Ingenuity Is So Amazing
“Mars is an entirely inhospitable world in a lot of ways. Its thin, tenuous atmosphere often blows at wildly incredible speeds, giving rise to dust storms and whimsically carrying anything that happens to be in its atmosphere wherever those winds blow. Its temperature extremes are a challenge to survive, particularly for robots with intricate, mechanically moving parts. And its great distance from Earth places a terrible constraint on what we can manually accomplish: anything that requires a reaction faster than the round-trip light-travel-time must be accomplished in situ on Mars, without human intervention.
And yet, we’ve conquered the journey across interplanetary space to arrive at Mars. We’ve conquered the bonds of gravity, sending orbiters around Mars and landers to its surface. We’ve overcome the challenges of the Martian surface, with rovers that can cover dozens of kilometers over their lifetimes. And now, for the first time, we’re conquering the Martian atmosphere, with the successful demonstration of powered flight on another planet. What we’re witnessing is, in its own way, the culmination of our aeronautics technologies, but it’s also the start of something big: the aerial exploration of worlds beyond Earth.”
Yes, we are flying through the atmosphere of another planet! The era of orbiters, landers and rovers is no more, as they’re joined also by the first successful powered flight on another world.
Here are the challenges we’ve overcome so far, and here’s what all our successes just might lead to.
Tomorrow is your chance to watch Nathan Fletcher’s Heavy Water Film, the way it was meant to be seen. Playing in theaters across the US for one day only!
Reserveyour tickets here!
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5 things you didn’t know you could do in the NT
There’s more to the Top End than you think. Picture: Tourism NT. Source: Supplied
THE vast yet beautiful Northern Territory drew more local and international travellers this year than any of the past five.
The National Visitor Survey showed 1.34 million visitors ticked the Territory off their bucket lists, a 14 per cent increase. So what makes this region so special?
Apart from the obvious…
