Clouseau takes on the skies

Bas Vandenbranden as an operator on the newest videoclip of belgians
most popular popgroup "Clouseau".
The song "leve België" was played live from 4 different helicopters.
Many thanks to Jan duymelinck -Videosquad- for his pictures.

Thalassa counts on SkyEmotions for their Adriatic overflight.

Ones more we lifted of on a adventures mission along the coast of Italy,
Slovenia, Croatia, Montenergo, Albania, along corfu and rounding the
cyclades to complete the greek coast line in Thessaloniki with the mytic
mount atos as a cherry on thecake. Pilot Juerg Fleischmann, operator Bas
Vandenbranden and director Yannick Charles.

finaly some action in Porto

Big UP to my friend and superb photographer Balasz Gardi

heroshot in Porto

RBAR Porto

Due to bad weather (foggy conditions) we are forced on the ground for
the last 2 days. Our inflight photographer David Blundell kept himself
busy around our new RBAR-ship HB-ZJF. We just happend to be there as
well.... :)

Skyemotions Twice the force

The Porto Race, one of our favorites, is a first ever with 2 Skymedia
BO105's In Barcelona the 2 camerashipswill be fully equipped with Cineflex.

some more alinghi impressions

SkyEmotions joining the new alinghi for it's maiden trip.

RB105 and Aiut Alpin EC135

Our ZHS and the EC135 from Aiut Alpin operating at the same time......, really great peoplle here......
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RB105 at Pontives Heliport with Aiut Alpin

Our HB-ZHS is ready for another mission in Val Gardena region......

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RB105 ready in the Val Gardena

Our Crew, Bas and Jürg, film today for Red Bull a TV show called "Celebrities goes extrem" at the Sella Pass in the Dolomites......, again a spectacular job for our Crew and the HB-ZHS.
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RB105 im Südtirol

Unsere RB105 fliegt morgen einen Einsatz für Red Bull im Grödnertal. Wir sind Gäste auf der Basis von Aiut Alpin Dolomites, Gebrüder Kostner, und Elikos, Star Work Sky, wir wurden sehr freundlich aufgenommen, nicht nur eine wunderschöne Gegend, auch sehr nette Leute......, Crew Jürg Fleischmann und Bas Vandenbranden.
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Red Bull 105 ready for the Alinghi shoot.

Today our Crew, Bas, Jean Paul and Jürg, will shoot the official launch of the Alinghi parade on the Lake of Geneva. Also here is Nicolas Ivanoff, he will do a display around the huge Catamaran. In the background you see the MI-26, next week Alinghi will be flown over the Swiss Alps to Genoa with this giant Helicopter..........

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Enjoy the meal....

The crew was hungry, so Bas and Liz prepared a great Barbecue....., mmmhhh.....

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ZHS am Picknick.....

Was für ein strenger Job, unsere ZHS und die Crew jederzeit einsatzbereit oberhalb Monaco. Natürlich mit Picknick. Unser Crew, Bas, Tom, Liz und Jürg am Einsatz beim x-alps 2009.
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X-alps in Monaco

Today the swiss Leader Chrigl Maurer together with his supporter Tom made it already to Monaco. Our Crew, Bas and Jürg together with our BO105 are resting overhead famous Monte Carlo.
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ZJC at RedBull x-alps

Bas, Jürg and our EC130 are flying at the RedBull x-alps, today we are in the beautifull Swiss Alps close to Crans Montana.....
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On with the 130

Today we changed the cineflex to a EC 130 for the high altitude filming.
The SkyEmotions team reunited since Jurg Fleischmann is taking over the
controls from here on to Monaco. We're planning on crossing the
Matterhorn and the Mont blanc in the next days.
Look where we parked this beauty...

x ALPS 23.07 update

A rough day.
Full power on the BO105 we had 60 kts groundspeed and going down.
A headwind gusting up to 60 kts made it a very unconfortable flight for us.
not much flying going on for the athletes neighter.....

Xalps rocks !

Day 3 of the event, in challenging conditions.
Flying trough the domomites is amazingly beautifull and breathtaking. we
picked this lovely spot for our mid-day picknick :)
Sometimes live is very sweet.
No rest for the athletes tough, this race goes on day and night till the
finish

Red bull XALPS

The 19 of juli was the start of the 2009 xapls.
From Salzburg to monaco. Non stop flying or/and Hiking.
We started out in front of Hangar 7.
Check www.redbullxalps.com for our progress.

Red Bull 105 / HB-ZHS in Toronto

Our RB105 is already in Toronto where it will be dissasembled for the flight on board a Cargolux Boeing 747 to Luxembourg. Giovanni and Sascha are taking care of our Lady to make her ready for the Atlantic Crossing back home.
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Windsor Airrace

After a successfull Airrace in Windsor we prepare for the transport to Europe. All our equipment is ready in our Air Race Hangar for the transport back to our Home Base in Zurich. Our team (Bas, Giovanni, Jürg, Kari, Marco, Peter, Ricci and Sascha) made a great job for an amazing race which was won by Paul Bonhomme, second was Hannes Arch and third was Kirby Chambliss. Now we are heading for Europe......
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skyemotions over Niagara Falls

Another famous location for skyemotions:  we did some filming over the Niagara Falls with our BO-105 HB-ZHS. We spent a week in Toronto for Red Bull Canada. The crew: Bas van den Branden (Camera Operator), Sascha Fleischmann (Co-Pilot, Technician)  Jürg Fleischmann (Pilot)

 

thalassa north africa part 2

Thalassa north Africa

As part of the ongoing FR3 television show called thalassa we continued
our quest for natures finest along the north coast of Africa. With a
little detour over algiers and libia. no permission:( we managed to fly
from marocco to tunis and the return via malta end sardinia.

10.05.09 RBAR San Diego

dodging pilons and the swine flue the pilots of the air race this time
gathered in San diego for the second eposode of the 2009 season

17.04.09 First air race of the season.

As the tradition goes Abu Dahbi gets the honnor of opening the airrace
season.
Flying in the good old BO105 :) it's like coming home :)

06.04.09 Birdwatching in Israel

Did you know? over 500.000.000 migrating birds fly over Israel evry
year! one way!
We needed to get a piece of that action, a spectacular story on a
spectacular background.