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Happy 35th birthday to Gisele. On July 20, 1980 Gisele Caroline Bundchen was born. She has been the world’s most successful fashion model, an influential businesswoman, a champion of the environment, and more recently, a Bostonian. But on September 21, 2009 I witnessed, and photographed, a more daring side to her, when Gisele, more than 6 months pregnant, took helicopter flying lessons in Marshfield,MA. Her helicopter pilot/instructor is Stuart Matsumoto. Below are my exclusive photos.
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Gisele Bundchen takes helicopter lessons

Gisele Bundchen takes helicopter lessons

Gisele Bundchen takes helicopter lessons

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I covered this very sad story of a wonderful young woman who died in service to our country. Marine Capt. Jennifer Harris, a Swampscott woman and Naval Academy graduate, died when the helicopter she was piloting crashed Feb. 7, 2007 in a field northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people on board. Below are my photos of her casket arriving at Hanscom AFB and of her funeral, on this date in 2007. Here is the very moving story that my colleague Peter Gelzinis wrote for the Boston Herald and the Swampscott Reporter.


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September 21, 2009, a day that most surely will be etched in my mind forever. I arrived at Marshfield Airport at 6am and waited and hoped, on a tip, that Gisele would be flying a helicopter with flight instructor Stuart Matsumoto.  All of a sudden, there she was and away she went. Gisele and Stuart stayed up for almost 2 hours before gliding the craft to a perfect landing.  Afterwards, enroute back to Boston, I got another tip that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were jogging around the Charles River. After a few minutes I spotted them. Tom was very nice saying to me, after I identified myself as a Boston Herald photographer, that he enjoyed Boston very much, “a great city.”

(09/21/09-Boston,MA) Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes take a jog around Boston's Charles River today. Cruise looked at a camerman and said: "Great City!"  NO BOSTON SALES  Photo By Mark Edwards (Mark Edwards)

Gisele Bundchen takes helicopter lessons (Mark Garfinkel)

Gisele Bundchen takes helicopter lessons (Mark Garfinkel)

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