VH-INM  Bell 47J-2A Ranger                                             (c/n  1853)

                            

                                  When you shoot photos of helicopters should you bother to get all of the rotor in?  And the answer
                                  is "No", not necessarily.   I quite often chop them off (excuse the word connotation) in order to get
                                  closer to the subject.   Geoff Goodall did so above, at Essendon in May of 1962, with no diminution
                                  whatever of  the quality of this excellent image.   Barry Maclean, in his dead side-on shot below,
                                  taken at roughly the same time and venue, opted to get all the rotors in.  VH-INM was chartered
                                  to the Hydro Electricity Commission of Tasmania for survey work use.    It was damaged beyond
                                  repair following a forced landing upon taking off from the Needles Camp near Maydena, Tasmania
                                  (about 75 km west of Hobart) in February of 1964.  Evidently the rotor clutch slipped.   The pilot
                                  and 2 passengers were unhurt.