Aerospatiale Alouette II - a photo on Flickriver

            The Alouette II is a light helicopter originally manufactured by Sud Aviation and later Aérospatiale, both of France. The Alouette II was the first production helicopter to use a gas turbine instead of a conventional heavier piston engine. It was mostly used for military purposes in observation, photography, air/sea rescue, liaison and training but it has also carried anti-tank missiles and homing torpedoes. As a civilian helicopter it was used for casualty evacuation (with two external stretcher panniers), crop-spraying and as a flying crane (with a 500kg external sling load).

The developmental SE.3130, first flew on 12 March 1955 and a pre-series Alouette II flown by Jean Boulet set a new helicopter altitude record of 8,209m on 6 June and then 10,984m on 13 June. On 3 July 1956, it became the first helicopter to perform a mountain-rescue by evacuating a mountaineer who had suffered from cardiac arrest at over 4,000m and on 3 January 1957 an Alouette II rescued the crew of a crashed Sikorsky S-58 which was searching for missing mountaineers on Mont Blanc. It did not gain its domestic certificate of airworthiness until 2 May 1957. It made military history by being the first helicopter worldwide to be equipped with anti-tank missiles (the Nord SS.11s), and by the time production ended in 1975 with over 1,500 Alouette IIs had been built, used by over 80 countries including 47 armed forces. Seen at the British Army Air Corps' Wallop '08 air show.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Abbotts Ann Down (show map)

Taken on: July 26, 2008

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Camera: Canon EOS 450D, f/14.0, 1/250 sec, 400mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 450D
Aperture:	f/14.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	400mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
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