YF65_CH53E

Tank, You are correct Sir. I forgot it was 1997 for Desert Punch. Thought it was earlier. But it was a hell of a lift. One time event I don't think we ever did a Wing lift again. LtGen Fred McCorkle was CG 3rd MAW when we did the lift. Basically during Desert Storm, we had a similar lift that did jot go as well as it should have. So he wanted to plan, rehearse and fly another one like the one they flew in 1991. I've never seen so many helicopters in the air in my life and probably never again. I am sure the people that lived in and around Dateland AZ thought there was an alie

More 53's to come R/Gunny Dan

Yes that is our Zero restoration. Gordon Page is apart of our project. I had not seen the video yet. That's my Dad, Bob Hammer with Gordon. Thanks for posting!! r/Gunny Dan

His A/C was 157736. I added, Pitot covers, engine exhaust covers, and scratch built the HF antenna.

Project on workbench right now. HMH-362, Ugly Angels, YL-07 This is a pic of Ugly-36, the Marine I am building this for flew YL-07 Rotor head was changed significantly as the old Revell kit only gives you the option for the Elastomeric Rotor head, or "dry head". My guy wanted it in the early version of the CH-53A/Ds, the wet head. So I had to work on making it look like the wet head.

YF-00, CH-53E Again, scratch built the rotor head blade fold lines:

UT-00, HMT-302

YF-53:

YF-59:

Rotor head details

I posted this in the wrong display case, over in autos. OOPS! I have been looking around the forum for awhile now, and decided to take the plunge and post some of my CH-53 builds. I have been an avid modeler for over 40 years, but never really go into the hobby the way I should. I retired in 2018 after 33 years in DoD, 21 years active duty Marine, CH-53A/D/E crew chief, and 12 years as a DoD contractor supporting the H-53 program office in Patuxent River Maryland. In 2018 I headed home to Seattle to build airplanes with my Dad full time. We have in the barn right now, a 1942 M

wrong forum....I am soooo sorry all

Sorry for the low resolution photos. I just realized, by reading the forum FAQ's I can use my Flikr account. So I will post a few higher resolution ones.

CH-53E's: Again, scratch built the blade fold systems, and weathered them to what I remember they looked like when I flew them and maintained them. HMH-466, YK-07

Details on Ugly-07, scratch built the "wet head" rotor vice the dry head included with the kit. Also I included the squadron logo on the starboard side of the fuselage as they did in the 1970's.

I have been looking around the forum for awhile now, and decided to take the plunge and post some of my CH-53 builds. I have been an avid modeler for over 40 years, but never really go into the hobby the way I should. I retired in 2018 after 33 years in DoD, 22 years active duty Marine, CH-53A/D/E crew chief, and 11 years as a DoD contractor supporting the H-53 program office in Patuxent River Maryland. In 2018 I headed home to Seattle to build airplanes with my Dad full time. We have in the barn right now, a 1942 Mitsubishi A6M3-32 "Hamp" fighter. Been restoring/rebuilding for the past 7

CH-53A/D/E crew chief here. 33 years on 53's. Skis on USMC/USN/USAF 53's were never designed into the helicopter. No need for them. The retractable landing gear on at least our USMC/USN 53's was for water landings, as well as long flights where aerodynamics may have a factor in fuel consumption, but c'mon its a 53 flying at maybe 150kts, maybe.....so getting the gear up was not a big "speed" option for us, more for water landings. When I did operations in Norway we could land in the snow with both gear up and gear down landings. 99% of the time the gear was down.

AD-4N, The 53E went through a couple of paint schemes, in what felt like an afternoon!! In the 1980's when the aircraft were delivered to the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) they were delivered in Medium Field Green, FS34095, with all black stenciling. Then as the aircraft went through and depot modifications through 1990, they were painted in the tri-color paint job. FS 35237 Blue Gray FS 34095 Medium Field Green FS 37038 Black with black stenciling or opposite color stencil where appropriate. Then in 1991 - 1997 the Marine Corps began taking delivery of another block of CH-53E's. The

The Me-262 we used for our templates was from NAS Willow Grove. It belonged to the Navy, and was flown there from NAS Patuxent River, MD after flight testing. It was on display at the front gate there for years. Steve Synder, the force behind the Me-262 Project made a deal with the Navy and agreed to let us use the plane, and in turn we would restore it for a static display back at NAS Willow Grove. However the airplane did end up at Naval Aviation Museum Pensacola FL. This is A/C 35 when we finisher her here in Everett, WA. r/Gy Dan