48 Hour Photo Comp: Rotor Blur!

[PeterR]

Taking a different approach to the last few competition topics (based on aircraft types). For the next 48 hours I want to see your best rotor blur images taken of helicopters! It's a technique most aviation photographers are familiar with, the challenge of getting the cabin of the helicopter sharp whilst getting the motion of the rotor blades blurred.

[jalfrezi]

Best I've got, I'm afraid!

EDIT: Changed to this one that I forgot I had....

Boeing CH-47D Chinook - 02 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

[Andyph]

Great topic.

New Zealand Navy (but operated by 6 Sqn RNZAF) SH-2G(NZ) Seasprites

IMG_2399-01 by Andy Heap, on Flickr

or slower still...

IMG_2581-01 by Andy Heap, on Flickr

[Draken]

Love the topic! Hard to pick one as I love helicopters in motion

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[Skyflash]

East Lothian as opposed to South-East Asia, but wherever it's photographed it's a beast of a machine:

EF2013 229 by Gordon Duncan, on Flickr

[Ewart]

IMG_0316 by Gaz Ewart, on Flickr

Ex Tac Blaze - Dutch Chinook

[BMrider]

Blackhawk UH-60 landing at the allied dropzone Mémorial des Parachutistes (Slide Scan)

50480 Sainte-Mère-Église, France south of Ste-Mere-Englise on the 6/6/2004 for D'Day commemoration, at the Iron Mike Memorial


Blackhawk UH-60 by Mark Handley, on Flickr

[Maccyd]

One from last years RIAT.
Puma by Brian Macdonald, on Flickr

[CJS]

Not a lot of blur here, but hey, it's taken on a compact so...


by Chris Strawson, on Flickr

[Ian G]

A welcome visitor to Cosford last year


Westland Sea Lynx Mk.88 by Ian Garfield, on Flickr

[Peter345]

Sea King HC4 ZA310 by Peter Starling, on Flickr

Peter

[Seamus]

I'm not really one to go particularly slow with the shutter speed, but sometimes the opportunity presents itself...

Bell 212 AH3 ZK067/B Army Air Corps SPTA 18/02/16 by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

[Tommy]

[PeteM]

[boff180]

Czech Mi-24 Hind by Andrew Evans, on Flickr

[Mictheslik]

[Wbirdnut]

Royal Australian Navy MH-60 Romeo.

[Blackbird]

Seen at North Weald:
DSC07104-Leonardo (Agusta) AW-169 G-HHEM by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Andy

[SuffolkBlue]

Westland Wasp HAS1 - Flying Festival Airshow 2019, Old Warden, Sunday 2nd June 2019 by Chris Day, on Flickr

[FarnboroJohn]

I clocked this from my garden... I just left the garden - on foot, socially distanced - when I realised it was landing. The Kent Surrey Sussex boys deserve the shout out.

20200520 (15)_G-KSST_AgustaWestland_AW169 by John Dixon, on Flickr

[Col. Chibani]

Rotor blur is not my specialty.
Here is my "least bad" shot (Belgian Air Force Westland Sea King at Ferté-Alais 2016):

DSC_2450 by Colonel CHIBANI, sur Flickr

[Spiny Norman]

Chinook taxying in.

[Domvickery]

RIAT 2019 Thursday 381 by Dominic Vickery, on Flickr

[ianf]

Northolt 2014

[PeterR]

Some great entries well done!

I was blown away by Nick's Osprey shot, and then he swapped it out! Also, mentions to Andy's Hind shot (apart from the cropped tail rotor ), Tommy's TH-500B and Mic's Sea King.

But my winner, for both technical ability (full disks, wow), picturesque background and subject awesomeness is Andy's Kiwi Seasprite. Over to you...