at the base of Iron Mountain
new pictures taken on 29 Nov 2004 at the end of this page !
| 10 NOVEMBER 2004 | northeast Washington State : ACTIVE HH-43F 's |
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all photos by Mr.
Jerry VanGrunsven - location near Addy, WA at the base of Iron Mountain new pictures taken on 29 Nov 2004 at the end of this page ! |
The logging operation is undertaken
with N5197W and N556D , both owned by Horizon Helicopters.
N556D has just
returned to flying status after a long period of restoration. It looks brand new
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N556D pilot , Mr. Mitchell - photo by Mr. VanGrunsven , 10 Nov 2004
N5197W pilot , Mr. Henricksen - photo by Mr. VanGrunsven , 10 Nov 2004
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All photos taken by Mr. Jerry VanGrunsven, 10 November 2004
29 NOVEMBER 2004 :
left picture : N556D - photo by Mr. Jerry VanGrunsven 29 Nov 2004 right picture : N5197W - photo by Mr. Jerry VanGrunsven 29 Nov 2004 |
Comment by Mr. VanGrunsven :
"Yesterday
evening, Tuesday 30 November, I returned home from my trip to the Huskie logging
operation. It was a fantastic trip!!! I arrived at the operations base about
8:30 to find only two guys there, the Huskies could be heard in the distance,
hard at work already for over an hour. I right away drove up the hill toward the
work area. Soon I could see one Huskie not far away approaching the first log
landing area. It was N556D with pilot Bill Mitchell at the controls. In the
distance I could see 97W, the only 2 working Huskies in
the world on this day and visible in one viewing without moving my
eyes, fantastic, I knew this was going to be a fantastic day."
left picture : N5197W with logs "catched by the sun" - photo by Mr. Jerry VanGrunsven 29 Nov 2004 right picture : logs comming down after release - photo by Mr. Jerry VanGrunsven 29 Nov 2004 |
left picture : more logs delivered right picture : N556D just landed for a "hot refueling" (engine running-rotors turning) - both photos by Mr. Jerry VanGrunsven 29 Nov 2004 |
last update 05/12/2004
