First photos for this year

I've never taken pictures of aircraft before , I was at our local air strip yesterday to pick up my partner and one of our neighbours on a flight from Athens, as I arrived this smart looking thing was just about to take off. I was half an hour early so I got the camera out of the truck and waited till it left .
I tried to get the rotors frozen and, the panning through the fence was tricky but I think the K100and the 80-320mm did a good job . anyone know what this cool looking helicopter is ....
C and C welcome...jeff...

It's an Agusta Westland AW-109SP Grand New (what a daft name). It looks like it's been fitted with emergency floats on the side too (the pods forward and aft), so I'm guessing it's being used over water a lot.

Very nice.
A quick Google seems to imply it belongs to a super yacht called Ilona, owned by Frank Lowy, an Australian, Chairman of the Westfireld group.

Probably explains the floats Alien spotted.

Some people will ride round in anything....

http://www.amels-holland.com/index.php?pk=453&lang=en

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Nice shots

That is a very cool helitypewotsit must be a real chore to travel around in it

One of the few branches of Dutch industry not suffering from the recession .

Decent shots. Next time, you might want to use a slower shutter speed, so the propeller shows some (more) movement blur.