{"id":795,"date":"2010-09-06T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=795"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:23:16","slug":"le-tour-en-helicoptere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour en H\u00e9licopt\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was cool, seriously cool\u2026 job\u2019s like this one don\u2019t come along everyday, so, I popped on my aviators and made my way to\u2026. Battersea Heliport.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/06\/le-tour-en-helicoptere\/ftaugustaextra_jalden004\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-759\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ftAUGUSTAextra_jalden004-420x242.jpg\" alt=\"Helicopter\" title=\"Helicopter\" width=\"420\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-759\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe job was commissioned by The Financial Times Wealth magazine, who asked me to photograph a review of an Augusta helicopter being flown between London and Paris. I\u2019d never flown in a chopper before, but being an 80\u2019s child visions of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Airwolf\">Airwolf<\/a> induced hysteria on my part as it would any lad in his late 20\u2019s.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe met our pilot, Charles, your typical ex-RAF, public school type, at the heliport and took two Augusta\u2019s direct to Paris to allow me and a video crew to do air to air shots. It\u2019s amazing that they gave us the opportunity to it but normally (apparently) air-to-air photography is done without the window on. That wasn\u2019t the case in this bad boy though; the glass was about an inch thick which made hard work but secretly I was quite pleased it was there.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/06\/le-tour-en-helicoptere\/ftaugusta_jalden023\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ftAUGUSTA_jalden023-420x250.jpg\" alt=\"Charles The Pilot\" title=\"Charles The Pilot\" width=\"420\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-756\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs we flew over Dover my stomach took a turn for the worse; and when Charles noticed he directed me to the brown bag in front of me. Don\u2019t worry dear reader\u2026 I soldiered on and even managed to recover my appetite for lunch on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBack in the helicopter and my steak and chips didn\u2019t seem like such a great idea and was compounded by the fact that everybody else was fine. Personally, I think it had something to do with being bounced up and down with a 300mm lens glued to my face, but to rest of them this was an excuse.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDarting back into London, the sky was clear and a beautiful sunset gave me easily my best pictures, safe in the knowledge I\u2019d got it taped I focused on keeping my only souvenir\u2026 the lunch.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/06\/le-tour-en-helicoptere\/ftaugusta_jalden037-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-758\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ftAUGUSTA_jalden0371-419x268.jpg\" alt=\"Augusta Helicopter over London\" title=\"Augusta Helicopter over London\" width=\"419\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-758\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nGuess I\u2019m not ready for Airwolf just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was cool, seriously cool\u2026 job\u2019s like this one don\u2019t come along everyday, so, I popped on my aviators and made my way to\u2026. 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