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"Yofuri" writes:
"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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Ogden Johnson III wrote:
(Peter Stickney) wrote:
(Krztalizer) wrote in message
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If you look closely you can see the "V" formed by the landing gear
assembly,
a signature H-60 look. Also, the fuselage looks just way too long.

...and there is no smoke trail :1

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.

-HJC


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.

Taking a better look, (ANd hauling out my old H-34 model & squinting
at it from various angles, I'd have to say that you're right.
(Although the -34 had a humped back as well). The big giveaway is teh
horizontal stabilizer. On th H-34, it's symmetrical, shorter in span,
and low down on the tail rotor pylon.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster