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"Ogden Johnson III" wrote in message ... "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. -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] The phrase "Cut me a HUS" was still used in the USMC when I was in in the early 1970s. It meant "Cut me some slack" by then. I doubt if any of the young Marines that used it knew where it came from. Joe -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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