OK, I'm lost. *What* page - link please - has this confusing
picture on it? If it's "old H-34/HUS/HSS-1", I might be able to
confirm it, having racked up a *lot* of aircrew hours in Marine
H-34s. As it is, on the SH-60/SH-2 pages I looked at off the
original link, I saw nothing particularly H-34ish.

Yeah, it's a different page on the same site.

http://globalsecurity.org/military/s.../sh-2-pics.htm

Follow the rainbow.

I think its a 60, and the other horizontal stab is just distorted, perhaps by
the exhaust plume that crosses the photo at the same level as the missing stab.
Look at the photo - taken from the starboard cargo door of an aircraft, look
at it and feel it. Its in a creep, just before entering a hover. Look down at
the shadow, the fixed landing gear. Where do I lay my 20..?

j/k of course; would be very interested to hear the details of the photograph's
subject.

v/r
Gordon

.....man, I've looked at that photo 50 times and if its really an SH-2F, I swear
I never saw THAT view out the door.