Shot from a Bell 212 on an EPA air pollution mission over downtown Los Angeles in 1973. Notice the air pollution probes in the far left of the photograph.
Formation in Downtown LA, see the 212 at 12 o'clock low out the right window.
Red Haired psychopath in command of the air pollution missions. We flew 6 hours everyday for a year mostly in MVFR conditions.
We had a Hughes 300 for a taxicab to get us around the LA basin.
This is a Nike Missle base in El Monte California. It was our operating headquarters for the year.Bell 212 landing at the missle base after running an airpollution flight for EPA
Double exposure in a normal monitoring pattern with our sistership.
The maniac again, posing for the TV cameras or a newspaper crew in front of our N-Model twin engine Huey.
Bell Huey UH-1H on Lake Mead in 1971. We were ironing the kinks out of the systems before taking off around the US for three years sampling water in thousands of freshwater lakes.
Rome New York, Griffiths AFB, 1972 on the National Lake Eutrophication Study. That's me and Bill Hinkle on the float for a picture. We'd watch them launch U-2's out of there everyday to take pictures over Cuba in those days.
Stopping for JP-4 in Madison Wisconsin in 1974. The guy inspecting our rotor system was Mike Smith "The Viet Nam Kid!" Mike was later a Frontier Airline captain.
St. Cloud Minnesota with our Otter on the left. We had amphibious floats for the Otter too There were 4 Hueys and one Otter with six crews. The Otter was a taxicab to take the second shifts out and meet the Hueys at mid day, then bring the early crews home.
A shot going from Sprinfield Mass over to Albany New York in the summer of 1973. I'm flying in the left seat most of the time while everyone else sleeps although I'm not rated I'm having a blast.
Kevin Morris and Boom-Boom landing in the flood contol basin where I made my emergency landing in the RV-6 in July of this year.
R-22 on my helipad at home
Another one of my helipad
The ugly fat guy in the picture is BWB
Boom-Boom and Kevin Morris warming up
Boom-Boom and the machine
Buddies kicking the tires on the angry palm-tree. Notice my Minimax 1500 sport in the garage!
The new Beta-2 I'll start flying if it ever cools down around here. That's my buddy Kevin Morris, the one who scared Zoom half to death with supposed death threats in the open news groups. Zoom's lost control!
The girl who works at the flight school booking tours. I took her up in my RV-6 and she had a ball.
