Officially on July 11, 2018 Transport Canada provided us with our new Operating Certificate bringing the AS355 Twinstar online. This AS355 is a twin engine helicopter providing an added level of safety. The aircraft is built on the AS350 platform from Airbus Helicopters. Increased level of comfort in the cabin …Read More
Shotover Camera System Takes to Flight
Thanks to Tim Orr (NYonair/Hangar95) and Jose Montanez(Gotham Film Works) these guys were great to deal with. The Shotover F1 flew for the first time on the Astar/Twinstar Mount. Everything had been engineered and designed for it to be able to fly but up till now I hadn’t been able …Read More
GSS 520 Gyro Stabilized Camera Systems and 4K
Little bit of excitement here at Film Helicopters. Our first 4k job using the Red Dragon along with the Angenieux Optimo Lens . Top that off with our first time using the GSS 520. So we needed to be trained. Pat Longman from Active Camera Systems who is great to …Read More
Lights camera action. Well not really.
Thanks to our amazing MD500 and our amazing one of a kind bracket. We were asked by Aethon-Technologies to help them put their data gathering technology to work right here in Toronto. Aethons a Canadian Company is at the leading edge of data acquisition from the air. Highly modified camera …Read More
Wedding Trailer
We did a little work with Illbron Marogy back in October 2016 at the airport and down at Vineland Estates using both our airplane and helicopter. Checkout the trailer for Firas & Silva’s pre-wedding video. Click the picture and watch the video. Looks good.