French Navy Puma/Belgian SeaKing Oxford airport 01-02/05/12

[Beer Monster]

Spent the last couple of evenings at Oxford airport to get a few shots of these.
Nice of the French Navy to send a Super Puma!

Thanks for looking.

[Iwan Bogels]

Nice catch. I like the frontal shot with the heat haze behind.

Cheers,
Iwan

[Thermal]

Nice catches, not very common vistors there. Do you know the reason for their visit?
How did you manage to get access to the platform?
Is Oxford Aviation Academy still flying their old Seneca's around? God I spend some hours in those things.....

[jp 74]

Nice catch though the Puma is actually a ec725 Cougar (it looks like a buffy Puma ).

grtz Jeroen

[mwpeters]

Nice catch though the Puma is actually a ec725 Cougar (it looks like a buffy Puma ).

grtz Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,
to be more precise, it is also not a Cougar as you have mentioned, but a EC725 Caracal or Super Cougar. The Cougar you refer to has an aircraft type designation AS532.
The civilian equivalent of the EC725 is the EC225.

[jp 74]

Nice catch though the Puma is actually a ec725 Cougar (it looks like a buffy Puma ).

grtz Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,
to be more precise, it is also not a Cougar as you have mentioned, but a EC725 Caracal or Super Cougar. The Cougar you refer to has an aircraft type designation AS532.
The civilian equivalent of the EC725 is the EC225.

Indeed you are right.

[Beer Monster]

Nice catch though the Puma is actually a ec725 Cougar (it looks like a buffy Puma ).

grtz Jeroen

Hi Jeroen,
to be more precise, it is also not a Cougar as you have mentioned, but a EC725 Caracal or Super Cougar. The Cougar you refer to has an aircraft type designation AS532.
The civilian equivalent of the EC725 is the EC225.

Indeed you are right.

Many thanks for the correction and comments!
Basically its an annual 'event' that is held to provide further education for operational staff in the SAR or Aero-Medical service.