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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Cool Stuff with IR Cameras !

When we received a call from a very large construction consultants and engineers company we started planning the flight.

Tony came to us from MKA to ask if we could film a large technical college in Lawrence MA. He wanted to go at night so that he could use an infra-red camera to check heat loss from the Lawrence technical college. During the heavy snowfall of the 2010/11 season the roof had been damaged by snow shovels during snow removal. Tony arrived and we headed up to Lawrence airport (KLWM) to take the door off the helicopter and fly over the site for the pictures. We arrived at Lawrence airport after flying through Boston and wondered if the tower controller had fallen to sleep! It has to be the quietest airport I have been to, not one aircraft in the pattern or in the area the whole time we were in the area, I think the controller was just happy to speak to somebody! We took the door off and John waited on the ground in the cold whilst Tony and I circled the site for the pictures. Tony had done this many times before and we quickly completed the job. We picked up John and the door and headed back to Norwood airport (KOWD) with a beautiful sunset in New England. We landed in the dark at Norwood and Tony took some infra-red pictures of the helicopter . If your looking for aerial photo or infra red shots in New England then call Blue Hill.






















You can really see the engine and exhaust tips are hot, this is about 10 minutes after landing the helicopter. You can also see a warm area at the base of the mast where the transmission is. Have a great day and enjoy the blog , we have lots going on at the school so we will try and keep the blog updated more often. Dont forget the open house on April 16th when we hope to have Mark Musgrove here with the Umass worcester helicopter, weather and schedule dependent.

BHH

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Another Instrument check ride passed 1st time !

Colin Colby has been a student at Blue Hill Helicopters since 2010, he began training last year and then had a serious motorcycle accident which put a stop to his instrument training for some time.

Colin got back in the saddle this year and worked hard to get his helicopter instrument rating completed here at Blue Hill Helicopters. Yesterday was the day that we finally could call him an Instrument pilot !

It was an overcast day but the cloud base was high enough for him to complete the long ride in the Schweizer 300C, they departed OWD and headed out for the required approaches and hold. After almost two hours they returned with smiles and Colin a new Instrument pilot !

Well done Colin from all of us at Blue Hill Helicopters.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Greg Hren..... The 'Go-To' Guy for any kind of photography

Just a quick post on our regular aerial photo guy Greg Hren, Greg will be making our flight school video this spring and helping with the launch of our new satellite location.

Here is a video from the fall that Greg made.


Behind the Scenes - Aerials w/ Blue Hill Helicopters from Greg Hren on Vimeo.



Thanks

BHH