Learn to Fly over Monterey Bay
Helicopter and Airplane training from the Watsonville airport in California. Fly in the R44, R22 and Jetranger helicopters. Cessna, Piper and Mooney airplanes. from Private to ATP ratings available.
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R44 helicopter tour over Carmel. Specialized Helicopters 831-763-2244.
Helicopter Tour of the Santa Cruz coast!
A sped up version of me and Shelly's helicopter tour. We went up past Wilder Ranch and then back over Steamer Lane and the Santa Cruz wharf, then past the harbor and Pleasure Point. Just happened to be during a SOLID swell. And then the Capitola wharf, New Brighton state beach, the cement ship, and Manresa State Beach. We end flying over the Redwoods towards Watsonville. What a place..
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Above The Central Coast - Monterey, CA
I have lived in the central coast my entire life. I semi-grew up with a guy that is now a helicopter pilot. On Monday, October 17th 2016 we decided to go for a helicopter ride around town. We departed from Watsonville Regional Airport and flew to Salinas and back along the coast. Total flight time was about an hour and 10 minutes and I had a great time. We occasionally flew at a very low of about 100ft. I took my Sony A7R ii with a Zeiss Batis 25mm. Here are the shots of today with that gear.
AERIAL VIDEO SHOWS SHARKS FEET FROM SURFERS AT MANRESA STATE BEACH
LA SELVA BEACH In a video shot by a helicopter crew above Manresa State Beach last week, juvenile white sharks swim just feet from the dangling limbs unsuspecting surfers.
No one was attacked or touched, and the surfers in the video don’t even see the sharks because of the reflection they see on the water and the waves on the surface. From the air, sharks are much more easily seen, said Specialized Helicopters Chief Pilot Chris Gularte. The company offers tours from Watsonville and Monterey airports.
“It’s clear, it’s shallow and we can see them. When you’re standing on a wharf, you can see about three feet in the water,” Gularte said. “When you’re flying at 1,000 feet, it’s unbelievable what you can see.”
What Gularte recently has seen, as well as researchers at Moss Landing Marine Laboratory’s Pacific Shark Research Center, has been a huge expanse of bait fish in Monterey Bay that has been a magnet for sharks, whales, sea lions, fish and other marine life. Warmer water also has been a draw.
“There’s more bait out there than I’ve ever seen,” said Gularte, who’s been flying over South County waters for more than 25 years.
David Ebert, program director of the Shark Research Center, also flew with Gularte recently. After the juvenile white sharks such as the ones in the video eat fish and other prey in colder, deeper water, they tend to swim to warmer water closer to shore and rest, he said. That’s what they’re doing in the video.
“They’re basking in shallow water, and they’re in an inactive state or resting,” Ebert said.
“When they’re active, their body language is different. They’re on the move.”
He said he’s seen similar shark behavior in South Africa and Australia. Though they might be languid, sharks still tend to investigate unknown objects such as surfboards and boats with their rows of sharp teeth, Ebert and Gularte said. So they could still hurt someone, they said.
Ebert added that the smaller, 6-foot sharks in the video are more likely to feed on fish than mammals because their teeth aren’t fully developed.
Still, Ebert said, “If I was in the water, I’d probably call it a day for surfing.”
Gularte, a lifelong surfer in Santa Cruz County, said he’s sworn off surfing at Manresa and South County beaches because of the sharks he’s seen over the years and especially in the past six months. This week, he took a Surfing Magazine writer and photographer on a flight to spot sharks for an upcoming story.
Seacliff State Beach’s Cement Ship, for instance, teemed with sharks in late June and prompted Junior Lifeguard leaders to move a kids competition. State Parks leaders also posted signs on the beach that warned of sharks.
State Parks Public Safety Superintendent Bill Wolcott saw Specialized Helicopters’ YouTube video this week after a Sentinel reporter emailed him the link. Because he viewed it days after the footage was shot Aug. 27 and posted online Aug. 28, Wolcott said lifeguards would not post signs on the beach to warn surfers and swimmers of sharks.
State Parks’ policy is that if more than one person sees a shark and reports it to a lifeguard that day, lifeguards will post the beach but not block access to the beach or ocean. An attack would prompt further precautions.
Ebert said that although Santa Cruz County surfers know there are sharks in the ocean, he would prefer an educational sign rather than a warning sign, “So people can make up their own minds.” Sharks only spend about 10 percent of their time on the surface, Ebert said. With dozens to hundreds of surfers in Santa Cruz County waters daily, the chances of an attack remain slim, he said.
“Still, it’s really just fascinating for someone to share that information,” Ebert said.
“I think most surfers are going to take their chances and not worry about it.”
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Airship | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:43 1 Terminology
00:02:53 1.1 Airship
00:04:03 1.2 Aerostat
00:05:24 1.3 Dirigible
00:05:55 1.4 Blimp
00:06:24 1.5 Zeppelin
00:07:09 1.6 Hybrid airship
00:07:31 2 Classification
00:07:49 2.1 Rigid airships
00:08:21 2.2 Semi-rigid airships
00:08:54 2.3 Non-rigid airships
00:09:53 3 Construction
00:10:17 3.1 Structure
00:10:34 3.2 Envelope
00:12:13 3.3 Lifting gas
00:13:20 3.4 Gondola
00:14:17 3.5 Propulsion and control
00:15:49 4 Environmental benefits
00:16:11 5 History
00:16:20 5.1 Early pioneers
00:16:30 5.1.1 17th–18th centuries
00:18:19 5.1.2 19th century
00:24:17 5.2 Early 20th century
00:29:11 5.3 World War I
00:35:00 5.4 The interwar period
00:46:14 5.5 World War II
00:56:12 5.6 Postwar period
01:03:51 5.6.1 Postwar projects
01:05:12 6 Modern airships
01:05:21 6.1 Military airships
01:08:51 6.2 Passenger transport
01:10:46 6.3 Exploration
01:11:34 6.4 Thermal airships
01:12:53 6.5 Unmanned remotes
01:13:35 7 Current design projects
01:14:36 7.1 Heavy lifting
01:17:15 7.2 Metal-clad airships
01:17:55 7.3 Hybrid airships
01:19:27 7.4 Airships in space exploration
01:19:52 8 Comparison with heavier-than-air aircraft
01:21:02 9 Safety
01:27:53 10 See also
01:28:54 11 Notes
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An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power. Aerostats gain their lift from large gasbags filled with a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air.
In early dirigibles, the lifting gas used was hydrogen, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability. Helium gas has almost the same lifting capacity and is not flammable, unlike hydrogen, but is rare and relatively expensive. Significant amounts were first discovered in the United States and for a while helium was only used for airships in that country. Most airships built since the 1960s have used helium, though some have used hot air.The envelope of an airship may form a gasbag, or may contain a number of internal gas-filled cells. An airship also has engines, crew, and optionally also payload accommodation, typically housed in one or more gondolas suspended below the envelope.
The main types of airship are non-rigid, semi-rigid, and rigid. Non-rigid airships, often called blimps, rely on internal pressure to maintain their shape. Semi-rigid airships maintain the envelope shape by internal pressure, but have some form of supporting structure, such as a fixed keel, attached to it. Rigid airships have an outer structural framework that maintains the shape and carries all structural loads, while the lifting gas is contained in one or more internal gasbags or cells. Rigid airships were first flown by Count Zeppelin and the vast majority of rigid airships built were manufactured by the firm he founded. As a result, rigid airships are often called zeppelins.Airships were the first aircraft capable of controlled powered flight, and were most commonly used before the 1940s; their use decreased as their capabilities were surpassed by those of aeroplanes. Their decline was accelerated by a series of high-profile accidents, including the 1930 crash and burning of the British R101 in France, the 1933 and 1935 storm-related crashes of the twin airborne aircraft carrier U.S. Navy helium-filled rigids, the USS Akron and USS Macon respectively, and the 1937 burning of the German hydrogen-filled Hindenburg. From the 1960s, helium airships have been used where the ability to hover for a long time outweighs the need for speed and manoeuvrability, such as advertising, tourism, camera platforms, geological surveys and aerial observation.