MAD about the Strikehawk

http://globalsecurity.org/military/s...sh-60-pics.htm


In that website's H-2 page, they have a couple photos of birds I flew in. That
spiffy image towards the bottom of a helo's shadow within a rainbow is
obviously not an H-2 (its another SH-60).

That image of TF-22 brings back memories. It crashed, killing two. I had
gotten ~ 20 hours in it before it went down; notice the disco balls on the
upper spine, marking this as approximately the same time as Operation Preying
Mantis.

v/r
Gordon

Krztalizer wrote:

http://globalsecurity.org/military/s...sh-60-pics.htm


In that website's H-2 page, they have a couple photos of birds I flew in. That
spiffy image towards the bottom of a helo's shadow within a rainbow is
obviously not an H-2 (its another SH-60).

snip

Are you sure? It appears to only have a stabilizer on the port side, and the stab
seems to small in any case to be an SH-60. It could just be the sun angle, but I
don't think so.

Guy

"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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Krztalizer wrote:

http://globalsecurity.org/military/s...sh-60-pics.htm


In that website's H-2 page, they have a couple photos of birds I flew
in. That
spiffy image towards the bottom of a helo's shadow within a rainbow is
obviously not an H-2 (its another SH-60).

snip

Are you sure? It appears to only have a stabilizer on the port side, and
the stab
seems to small in any case to be an SH-60. It could just be the sun
angle, but I
don't think so.

Guy


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.

Michael E. Fenyes
AW HSL-33 '83-'86

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

Michael E. Fenyes
AW HSL-33 '83-'86 ---my former room mate and flying partner

v/r
Gordon


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USN SAR

Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a
reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.

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.

But then again, I may be passing Balloon Gas.
(I won't talk about the time I called a T-39 as
an F-104)

--
Pete Stickney

(Peter Stickney) wrote:

(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.

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.
--
OJ III
[Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast]

Ogden Johnson III wrote:
(Peter Stickney) wrote:
(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.

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

(Peter Stickney) wrote in
om:

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

Dave in San Diego

--
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"For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward;
For there you have been, and there you long to return."
Leonardo da Vinci

In article ,
Dave in San Diego writes:
(Peter Stickney) wrote in
om:

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