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Correct. Joseph is still around he just shifted his focus. He still offers some good 7 shot tubes on Shapeways. Thank you Joseph! Here is the Print Scale 1/35 UH-1B & UH-1D decal sheet. It's not what the OP wants though. Not to knock the early stuff, there's some seriously good artwork there, but I think he's leaning more to what I call the Head Ships. The trippy stuff when the headspace in Vietnam increased, around late 6768 and up. Plus to use these you're going to need to buy the UH-1B back date set from Lone Star Models because the kit is a Charlie model gunship. The back d
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Yeah you already know the answer Derek. I contributed to John's Nose Art series and wholeheartedly agree. There are plenty of great unexplored options. Print Scale released a 1/35 series but its geared towards Dragon's UH-1D if memory serves. Its too bad MRC didn't release their planned Seawolf version. I'm sure their decals would've been great. Outside of that you've got to put the effort in to get the other boxings for options or do it yourself. I guess Slicks are more 'profitable' which leaves some enterprising soul a lot of room for market since no one is occupying it. But then 'Slicks are
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It was a controlled explosion. It's not literal that they packed it full of explosives like a stuffed turkey and up it went into the air. The quote was from a member of the assault element so their choice of words. Reads better in their book and gives a dramatic mental image of the event. Also, Thermite grenades are stable until ignited and no more dangerous than carrying frags, flash bangs, or anything that goes boom, bang, burn on a helo for an insertion or extraction. The nature of the game is inherently more dangerous than your loadout not to mention you typically 'safe' everything.
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Come on now 11bee, there is nothing strange here and it's common practice to destroy material via the trusty and true Thermite grenades or hit it with an air strike even. I would say the ground element did a much better job than you see here courtesy of Sappers at Bien Hoa AB in '68. Melting airframes are nothing new. The SEALs are reported to have packed the downed helicopter with explosives and blew it up. This after the pilots and aircrew, destroyed avionics and coms prior to their exfil.
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Saved this for occassions such as this one: Huey colors - Rotors, rotor head, scissor, push rods, links, swash plate and mast Viet-nam era UH-1 pylons (B ,C, D, H, and M) were all painted roughly similar, and components were mixed and matched with out regard to color. So you could have a pair of "drive links" for example of which one was gloss light gray, and the other being, just anodized and left that metallic silver color. Mast boots were varied from orange to red to black. The slicks (D&H) had one boot above the scissors and sleeve assy, while the gu
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89-0130 was a conversion to CH-47D from CH-47C. Image from 1 August 2018 147201 Boeing CH-147 CH-147D Chinook first date: 28 December 2008 - Accepted at Kandahar Originally built as CH-47C, US Army serial number 68-16017, company number B.609. Converted to CH-47D, new serial number 89-00130, conversion number M.32
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Help needed- 1/35 HA(L)-3 decal instructions
snake36bravo replied to torchf4's topic in Helicopter Modeling
There are two versions Fireball put out. Here is my 4 color profile . Note the color differences in mine of the top two Seawolves. They have the same Modex/writeup but are colored differently. Mine is also 1/48 -
When MAG 16 was at Phu Bai they did not have PSP (Pierced Steel Planking) although they did have revetments and despite peneprime sprayed surfaces (tar sprayed dirt and rock to reduce brown outs resulting from aggregate dust and to limit FOD) they still had fairly dirty skids since you got the kit to practice weathering techniques. You can see some good amounts of fouling and wear on these slides including spilled fuel. This is before MAG 16 moved to Marble Mountain Air Field MMAF outside of Da Nang. The last slide here shows how dirty the tail became with soot from the exhaust.
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Those are called Dynamic Stops In Short 4th not shown in your image fully engaged in flight. 3rd position as you have them is closer to lower rotor RPM as indicated by the image of the crew member clearing the FOD intake filter and the 3rd position in the take off image. Final image you cant even see them as they are bucked up against the underside of the 540 rotor head. Note the pitch of the blades in the last two images is the same but the rotor RPM is likely still coming up on the image of them nose low and moving towards ETL Effective Translational Lift.
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Just cast your figures after you sculpt them and use non-sulfuric clay or better yet resin. Most polymer clays have sulfur and will also melt plastic on kits. I made that mistake building B pillars and the overhead console. Any new updates?
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Harasho L-GREECO. Nice update.
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From Combat After Action Report - Airmobile Operations in Support of Operation Lam Son 719 (101st Airborne Division February 1971 thru 6 April 1971 dated 26 July 1971 "Throughout the operational area the NVA deployed an extensive, well-integrated, highly mobile air defense system which included large numbers of antiaircraft weapons of several calibers, the basic weapon being the 12.7mm machine gun. (Figure 1-7) Some antiaircraft weapons were apparently radar-controlled. " From 101st Airborne Division (Airmbole) Final Report Airmobile Operations in Support of Operation
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You're welcome. I wouldn't bet that the report no longer exists. In fact I am sure it's out there. Plenty of information I uncovered in my research into SEANITEOPS existed in multiple places and required a declassification request as well. There are doctorate papers on DTIC that reference the report you are after for those specific systems. You will just need to dig harder. The link I sent is a path forward with some chronology as well as 3 possible HUMINT sources to search out. Are you only looking at US DoD programs? Only reason I ask is because another avenue is the Spanish Navy
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What you are after was conducted by NADC According to "History of the Naval Air Development Center" documentation at DTIC. According to this document there were recorded interviews Tape 13 specifically with Richard James among others, pg 53-54. If anything this is a useful index for it's timeline. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a123645.pdf DTIC does in fact have quite a large number of Navy documents and more controlled documentation if you have a CAC card. NADC was permanently closed in the 90s as part of BRAC. It was moved to NAS Patuxent River @ Lexin
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Nicely done and you cant beat the community effort. Hand salute!
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I now pronounce you man and Cobra. Also here are two shots of Whiskey for you on the house! Both 1990 Van Nuys Air National Guard base before everything moved to NAS Point Mugu
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I'm setting the Way Back (WABAC) Machine for December 1986 to check out the Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra. Sherman and Peabody were in the Army National Guard so all they had were APH-1 and APH-5A helmets. They are also not wearing their Nomex but beg you to show mercy on them and not give them a bad OER or NCOER. As stated they are Army National Guard which means they routinely fly naked. Sorry about that! This article first appeared in 'Combat War & Weapons' published by Modern Day Periodical, Inc. in December 1986. Click for a 150 dpi version that will open in a
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Good details Bryan in all your posts which I appreciate. Also immensely appreciate your insights and images which are rare as hens teeth from someone on these programs and who has the goods on the saucy bits. I realize I just have a different outlook on certain points based on my own experiences. Not intentionally leaving out dates for any purpose just the official dead date matters because it means no future funding. Dead is dead. Pack it up and Bye bye team which sucks from experience. I actually forget more than I remember, TBI & mini-stroke, if it's not written down. . "I
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The flex sight could be elevated and adjusted in many ways. You could move it laterally left and right and vertically up and down. I have Bravo-6 pilots for mine and am modifying their M-60 tank crew for door gunners. Much more dynamic IMO. And yes Academy/MRC shorted us all 1 door gunner in their kit and as you pointed out have short comings. The answer on the crew is 4. You had two have to gunners to cover on each side and the break coming out of a gun run and 2 pilots in the event one was incapacitated. Your typical flight crew consisted of the AC, Aircraft Commander and senior
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The Cheyenne was killed 9 August 1972 not in 1969. 10 November 1972 is when Kenneth Rush, Deputy Secretary of Defense approved the release for RFP to industry. It was 29 March 1973 when Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Chief of Staff, US Army made his 'Big 5' announcement a decade after Secretary of the Army Cryus B. Vance did on AAFS which lead to the Cheyenne: "The weapon systems which I will now discuss are referred to as the 'Big Five'. They represent a family of weapons essential to our success on the battlefield of the 1980's...The "Big Five" are the most important of today's weapon
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What the Cobra offered, and the Marine Corps so brilliantly still understand, was an ease of use supply chain were similar components are on hand versus the hodge podge Army Aviation became of disparate parts in their inventory system. The Cobra also met the requirements for what was then called AAH, Advanced Attack Helicopter. AAH was superseded by AAFSS, Advanced Aerial Fire Support System, which was the AH-56A Cheyenne they then killed for the Apache Mafia crowd and to please the Air Force who sashayed all the way to Washington to complain because the Cheyenne had 'wings' and was taking ove
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I already had a profile for Miss Mini that I did.
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You've probably got the same 3 in-country images as I do for 1969. Miss Mini in 69 is interesting. Its carrying some of the older markings like the colored roof top recognition band which is early. Roof top bands were supposed to be replaced by the geometric shapes on the tail boom and sync elevators which she's also got. The geometric shapes were then replaced by tail boom bands in different colors with buzz numbers on the sync elevators. Main color is FS 34087 OD The rooftop recognition band is International Orange FS 12197 MISS MINI is in insignia yellow
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Cool, I can get Chatty Kathy real quick. They fire both high-velocity and low-velocity, 260 meters a second(850 feet per second) for the M129(M5) while the MK 19 is 230–240 m/s (750–790 fps averaged) I heard it from a friend too but then I've got a June 1969 image of 2 Thumpers mounted in the chin turret on a G versus the standard M134 and M129 setup. If it was a turd I cant see why they would go that route. The Snake for me is just death on call for real. For that airframe cannons became the thing as did AT capability which pretty much sh**canned the grenade launcher as any kind
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Nice detailing on the pilot, 3D print, and scratch work. Too bad the initial images dont all show up. Following like a moth that saw a flame. I always preferred Bandit-6 'Pappy's Pooper' from the 118th AHC myself but it's killer either way.