Thump, thump thump, thump, thump! Fresh-cut, green grass clippings are picked up by the whirling rotors, flicking around the small crowd gathered on the hospital grounds. Little Lena's eyes are wide as she witnesses the German army simulate a winch rescue from above, before lowering the great machine onto the lawns right in front of [...]
Here's another one I wrote for WAE. For those seeking adventure off the mainland, take a flight to Tasmania’s King Island. Swell pumps up from Antarctica and breaks onto the empty stretches of Martha Lavinia Beach. But it’s not just barrelling waves that make the journey worth it.
Writer and accompanying-imagery provider, Bronni Bowen, hitches a lift over the dark seas of the Bass Strait armed only with a Canon EOS M50 and two lenses, to capture a special space to which few from the mainland will venture. She begs to ask the question – “Is it audacious to have one’s camera set to automatic, for the time being, and still refer to oneself as a photographer?”
They say find your niche and roll with it - well, mine's telling stories of rad girl pilots. Bibi Anne's my Dutch treasure, and profiling her for 'A Greater View', my reg column in HeliOps Magazine, was a genuine delight.
Ever since she can remember, Jana Meyer wanted to be a 'Wildbewaarder' - a game ranger, or nature conservationist, in Afrikaans. In my first full-sized feature for HeliOps Magazine (secretly - ever), I look at the events that sparked Jana Meyer's passage into aviation, and what it is like to be one of South Africa's very few female specialised game capture helicopter pilots. An EPIC.
I could hear wind roaring, not too far off, back over my shoulder. It was streaming from the broad northwest, careening up the valleys like venturi, sucking up through vertical channels in the dolomite with such force that it was diverted straight up, past us on the ledge. Grey and grim, the Gullet was turning [...]
The latest issue of Airnews Magazine landed in PO Boxes 'round Australia this week. For those of you who don't receive it, here's a jolly ode to the Virtual Nav Challenges that have been replacing the traditional Sunday social event, thought up and executed by one of our Victorian members (Australian Women Pilots' Association).
A musing on not having to share in summer.
I make wonderful mates with German commercial heli pilot and instructor, Sabine Buehmann, for 'A Greater View', my reg column profiling women in all facets of the helicopter industry, all over the world.
Here's a piece I wrote for We Are Explorers. Less than 1.5 hours from Melbourne and surrounded by cosy, tree-laden mountains, Warburton is an all-seasons playground. Featuring the clear running Birrarung (Yarra River), ex-reservoir swimming holes, foraging and wild berry picking to your heart’s content.
Bronni Bowen 