Image of the Week: Forces Rapelling from Bell 212

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user Eagle, otherwise known as Gilles Diotte. His photo depicts Canadian military forces rapelling from a Bell 212 helicopter during a training exercise at Montreal. You can see more shots from the exercise here.

Gilles writes:

The helicopter repelling shots were taken on Sunday March 18th 1989 around noon time. This was the second weekend the military were conducting this exercise at the Montreal international airport. At that time I was working overtime a few weekends in a row. A week earlier, when the helicopters came around, we ran outside to have a look as they came in quite low. The noise and vibration caused by their main rotor was quite astounding: the office ceiling tiles and windows would rattle vigorously. Once outside, we had an impressive show. I made certain I would bring my camera for the next weekend in case they would come again. (They did, approximately at the same time). The images were taken with a 300mm lens onto 35mm film.