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Dave in San Diego writes:
(Peter Stickney) wrote in
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nt (Krztalizer) wrote in message
...

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.

Nope, not an H-34. The horiz stab is too close to the 90 deg gearbox for
that. The -34 stab is way down by the "el" in the boom.

See: http://www.fly-navy.de/helis/sh34_2.jpg

You're right guys. (I can't be perfect _all_ the time, dangit!)
I'd like to call it an Optical Illusion based on the low sun angle of
the shadow and the camera angle, but it was really a misfiring brain
circuit simewhere.

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