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A Bell 212 with Bambi bucket

Original - The Bell 212 Twin Huey (also known as the Twin Two-Twelve) is a two-bladed, twin-engined, medium helicopter that first flew in 1968. It is carrying a helicopter bucket, a specialised bucket suspended on a cable to deliver water for aerial firefighting.
Alternative - The Bell 212 Twin Huey (also known as the Twin Two-Twelve) is a two-bladed, twin-engined, medium helicopter that first flew in 1968. It is carrying a helicopter bucket, a specialised bucket suspended on a cable to deliver water for aerial firefighting.
Reason
Good quality and EV
Articles this image appears in
Bell 212; Helitack
Creator
mbz1
  • Support both as nominator -- Mbz1 ( talk) 03:13, 3 October 2009 (UTC) reply
  • Support either, prefer original. Why does the caption say "...could be carrying a helicopter bucket, a specialised bucket suspended..." and not is carrying? -- Muhammad (talk) 13:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC) reply
Thank you for your question (it is much easier than explaining about 2+2=4 :) ). I'm never sure how to write a caption in English, but because the image was nominated as an image of a helicopter that might or might not carry the bucket I've decided to write it like this. Please feel free to correct it as you belive is right.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 14:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC) reply
Agree with Muhammad - I've updated the caption. -- jjron ( talk) 07:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC) reply
  • Weak support alt. Angle and context are far better in alt for mine. However focus looks to be on the bucket and seems to leave the front of the helicopter slightly OOF, which is a little off-putting. Also a shame it wasn't a little higher up to have sky behind the chopper with the rest of the image context, as at thumbnail the chopper gets a little lost in the trees, although it's OK once you go to image page size. -- jjron ( talk) 07:45, 5 October 2009 (UTC) reply
    • For the record, Weak oppose original. -- jjron ( talk) 06:16, 9 October 2009 (UTC) reply
  • Support Alt Better EV as it shows the type of situation this would be used in, especially with the smoke rising from the trees behind... And where there's smoke there must be fire, and thus this image suits it better... Otherwise it's just a random helicopter with a bucket... Gazhiley ( talk) 14:04, 7 October 2009 (UTC) reply
  • Support both - the original has a better view of the helicopter, the alt is useful for Helitack. We could easily feature both. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 210 FCs served 10:13, 8 October 2009 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:A fire helicopter with helicopter bucket.jpg -- Makeemlighter ( talk) 03:42, 10 October 2009 (UTC) reply