Here is a tree, that a vine has choked. 
It has a Chevy 350 in it. Very nice. 
African Tortoise. 
Now, the kids are taking pics. 
Spring Daffodils 
Cool flower. Don't know what kind. 
More cool Pics. 
Alligator Farm 
Nate,
Looks like y'all done caught the Shutter Bug...
DDSM:good:
Keep it up. Those pictures will be priceless to you and your family in the coming years.
Andy
Check out the vine choked tree we found yesterday.
I just got back from the Helicopter show (HAI) in Louisville Kentucky. Here is some eye candyÛ? Nate I hope you donÛªt mind me glomming on to your post. I thought the title was fitting. I hope everyone enjoys.
I have been looking or more like dreaming about an airborne Lidar system. I was happy to see that Regal had their heli mount on display. I thought I might find a UAV Lidar system out there, but nothing weighs less than 15lbs that is survey grade. Oh yeah I started flying UAVS and I have been thinking about upgrading since the FAA made me get my pioletÛªs license. (ha, ha!) 
I was happy to see that PhaseOne was there as well. This is a real aerial camera. A 100mega pixel model with a fixed lense. I think it weighed about 4 lbs. The cost is a little more than I can risk with my UAV. $60k.
Its hard to see but the sensor in the Phase One is huge.
This is what the transmission looks like out of a MD 500. For anyone who has ever set up the gears in a differential you know this is a serious challenge.
That's the first time I've ever seen a Helicopter Transmission. What am I looking at? Is that diagonal shaft the power input shaft? Now, I gotta go look on youtube, to see how that thing works! (curiosity gets me!)
Nate
My new survey rig and one of my go to helpers.
A pretty cool iPhone App - Theodolite
YES! The diagonal shaft is the turbine engine input power which drives the ring gear on the tail rotor which turns the main rotor which is the 11 in ring gear. Unlike a car rear end all the gears and the shaft are one solid piece of metal.
This week was the first time I had ever seen one. I played with the thing for at least 30 minutes.
Josh
Nate The Surveyor, post: 360748, member: 291 wrote: That's the first time I've ever seen a Helicopter Transmission. What am I looking at? Is that diagonal shaft the power input shaft? Now, I gotta go look on youtube, to see how that thing works! (curiosity gets me!)
Nate
YES! The diagonal shaft is the turbine engine input power which drives the ring gear on the tail rotor which turns the main rotor which is the 11 in ring gear. Unlike a car rear end all the gears and the shaft are one solid piece of metal.
This week was the first time I had ever seen one. I played with the thing for at least 30 minutes.
Josh,
A good friend of mine from Pensacola was there too. He posted a picture of him (on Facebook) in front of the blue helicopter.
Andy
Andy Bruner, post: 360763, member: 1123 wrote: Josh,
A good friend of mine from Pensacola was there too. He posted a picture of him (on Facebook) in front of the blue helicopter.Andy
I just friended you on FaceBook. Thanks!
SO here is one more... A Turboprop engine.
Great pics Nate. In the third one is the young man on the right ÛÏBig HelpÛ?
Please tell me it ainÛªt, IÛªm aging too fast as it is.
Being a Floridian I can assure you the first sentence on the right-hand sign in the last pic is FALSE! :woot:
Have a great weekend! B-)
I love the sly look on Nate's daughter's face in the pic where she has the gator's head up next to her brother's head. I can see the little gears turning in her head trying to imagine what would happen if that muzzle restraint suddenly broke. "More for me at supper time!"
FL/GA PLS., post: 360766, member: 379 wrote: Great pics Nate. In the third one is the young man on the right ÛÏBig HelpÛ?
Please tell me it ainÛªt, IÛªm aging too fast as it is.
Being a Floridian I can assure you the first sentence on the right-hand sign in the last pic is FALSE! :woot:Have a great weekend! B-)
Yes, that is Big Help. And, gators are edible, I'm told!
cool pictures.
[USER=291]@Nate The Surveyor[/USER]
"Yes, that is Big Help. And, gators are edible, I'm told!"
Yeah, people eat 'em (tail) all the time, of course they taste like "chicken", but to me they taste like dirt with no grit. B-)
dhunter, post: 360750, member: 286 wrote: A pretty cool iPhone App - Theodolite
Theodolite is one of the best Apps I have
