peregrineflier Goldmember  4,069 posts Likes: 9 Joined Jan 2010 More info | Jan 18, 2011 22:56 | #1 This helicopter gives tours of the Hoover dam and probally spends more time on the ground running than actually flying.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Thanks, Tom the Peregrineflier
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Chippy569 Goldmember  1,851 posts Likes: 1 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Minneapolis, MN More info | Jan 18, 2011 22:59 | #2 probably just exhaust gunk (carbon, etc) like you suspected. Looks like it's in the right "pattern" for that kinda thing. Gear List
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Jan 18, 2011 23:01 | #3 Chippy569 wrote in post #11670055  probably just exhaust gunk (carbon, etc) like you suspected. Looks like it's in the right "pattern" for that kinda thing. If that was a car engine I'd say it's not running the greatest (burning oil or running rich) but I don't know anything about helicopter engines so... They are Jet engines Thanks, Tom the Peregrineflier
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FlyingPhotog Cream of the "Prop"  57,560 posts Likes: 178 Joined May 2007 Location: Probably Chasing Aircraft More info | Jan 18, 2011 23:02 | #4 Yup, Exhaust Soot... Jay
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Jan 18, 2011 23:09 | #5 I liked this angle too.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Thanks, Tom the Peregrineflier
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spectre Senior Member  825 posts Joined Jan 2007 Location: Escondido, CA More info | Jan 18, 2011 23:19 | #6 HA! It almost looks like NASA's old AD-1 Todd M. Allen TacAir Photography
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PhotosGuy Cream of the Crop, R.I.P.  More info | Jan 19, 2011 08:21 | #7 You only asked that so I wouldn't post my "Rotor blur" comment, didn't you?  FrankC - 20D, RAW, Manual everything...
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cjj14u Senior Member 604 posts Joined Jan 2009 Location: Knoxville, TN More info | Jan 19, 2011 11:15 | #8 Yup. Normal.... T1i X 2| T3i | 55-250is II | 18-55is II |
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Jan 19, 2011 15:27 | #9 PhotosGuy wrote in post #11671515 You only asked that so I wouldn't post my "Rotor blur" comment, didn't you?  Love the blur sky!
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ReubenH Senior Member  416 posts Likes: 4 Joined Sep 2010 Location: Queenstown, New Zealand More info | Jan 19, 2011 18:10 | #10 Mmmmmmm, love jetrangers. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan.
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GaryMcDuffie Goldmember  3,022 posts Likes: 1 Joined Oct 2008 Location: Scottsbluff, NE USA More info | Jan 19, 2011 21:24 | #11 As already stated, yep. 'Tis very normal. Gary
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dharmon Senior Member 357 posts Joined Aug 2007 More info | Don't worry about the black on the blades. That guy is in big trouble, the rotor has quit turning!
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altitude604 Goldmember  1,665 posts Likes: 10 Joined Nov 2009 Location: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia More info | Jan 20, 2011 09:42 | #13 you should see the black tips on the horizontal stab of a Twin Otter... or even the nacelles on a King Air. nice black arcs down either side all the way to the trailing edge sometimes. Erik - Three Miles Final
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Jan 20, 2011 21:20 | #14 Hey, I shoot humming birds, I always try to stop the "wings" Thanks, Tom the Peregrineflier
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