Shooting aerials - Drones and Helicopters
I have shot aerials for most of my career. Starting off in the early eighties I shot aerials from a Piper Cub for a National Geographic story, quickly switched over to helicopters and now shoot a mix of drone and helo shoots.
Helicopter list (so far) of all the ships I have flown in for aerial photography. (29 and counting)
- AStar with B350 (Ethiopia, NYC)
- AStar B350 FX (British Columbia, Alberta)
- AStar Twin-Star (Squirrel) (NYC, London, New Zealand)
- Eurocopter 120 (Denmark)
- Bell 47 (Florida, Delaware, Texas)
- Bell Jet Ranger (USA, UK, Canada, Jamaica)
- Bell Long Ranger (USA, Canada, UK)
- UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) (Missouri Flood - US Army Guard)
- Bell 47 with Soloy Turbine conversion (Florida)
- Bell 407 (New York City, New Jersey)
- Boeing CH-47 Chinook (Washington DC-Maryland - US Army)
- Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight (Florida - Hurricane Andrew - US Navy)
- Airbus MH-65 Dolphin (Missouri - Mississippi River Flood - US Coast Guard)
- Bolkow BK-105 (Gulf of Mexico)
- Mil Mi-8 (Wrangel Island - Russian Arctic)
- Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 (Alabama)
- Enstrom F-28 (Tennessee, Virginia, Texas)
- Enstrom 280 (Tennessee, Arkansas)
- Enstrom 480 (Chicago)
- MD 500 C (Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Chicago, NYC)
- MD 500 D (California)
- MH-6 Little Bird (Chicago, Missouri)
- Robinson R-22 (East Coast USA - no longer use for aerials)
- R-44 (USA, Canada, UK)
- R-66 (Virginia, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico)
- Rotorway Exec 90 (Arkansas - home-built helo - never again)
- Schweitzer 300/269 (Idaho, Virginia, New Jersey, New York City)
- Sikorsky S-76 (Gulf of Mexico)
- UH-60 Blackhawk (Virginia)
Schweitzer 300/Hughes 269
Drones flown/owned so far:
Inspire 2 with five lenses
Inspire 1 with four lenses (sold)
Phantom P4 Pro
Phantom P3 Pro (sold)
Phantom P2 with GoPro Hero 3 (sold)
Phantom P1 with GoPro Hero 1 (Crashed in Virginia - resting in the branches of a national forest)
3DR Solo (Sold)