"Yofuri" wrote:

"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message

Ogden Johnson III wrote:

I just took a look at the picture, and y'now, I think that it
just might be an old H-34/HUS/HSS-1. Really.
The 4 bladed rotor, the stabilizer on one side of the tail
rotor pylon, the V-shaped gear struts... In order to get
that rainbow the sun's gotta be above & behind the helicopter.
With that tall, thin fuselage, that sort of sun angle would
make a shadow like that.

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.

It's definitely not an H-34 or derivative. There's not enough room in the
nose for an 1820-84 and clutch to be stuffed in, it has turbo nacelles on
top, and the tail wheel is too far forward.

Agree. [overlooked the rainbow reference in the first quote -
sigh] Maximizing that picture cleared it up. Memo to self -
don't try to make decisions about pictures of shadows complicated
by lousy resolution/smears/spray/whatever in certain portions.
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