
Wayne Murphy tweetz:
…a superb photo from the [Irish] Air Corps archives…..Now gone Dauphin helis.

Wayne Murphy tweetz:
…a superb photo from the [Irish] Air Corps archives…..Now gone Dauphin helis.



No, not that one..
Lilicoptère by artist Joana Vasconcelos is a Bell47 helicopter adorned with ‘ostrich feathers, Swarovski crystals, gold leaf, industrial coating, dyed leather upholstery embossed with fine gold, Arraiolos rugs, walnut wood, wood grain painting and passementerie’.
The sculpture – Vasconcelos’ vision of what Marie Antoinette would have had commissioned for herself – had such a thing been available in late 18th century Paris – was exhibited at the Palais de Versailles last year.
Update:
Stephen Bourke writes:
But the picture you wanted to post was of two bewildered Dublads with the feathercopter


A 4m long 100,000+ brick model of the Erickson ‘Elvis’ Air Crane built by Ryan McNaught (he of the LEGO Saturn V rocket) for Brickvention 2013, Australia’s leading LEGOfest.
Images from Twitter (top) of the scenes of a helicopter crash in Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, London, earlier this morning and (above) video of the aftermath.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRYOKSBHxmI
A ridiculously skillful US Chinook helicopter pilot takes up position on a hillside – rear rotor decapitatingly close to the slope – as troops scramble into the back.
Apparently, it’s called a ‘pinnacle landing’.