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5 hours ago, Tank said:

 

Ray,

 

Is that a collapsible skid? Have you seen anyone try to model that?

 

 

 

The tall skids folded up on the SOTAS birds so that the radar pod could rotate.  They looked quite strange sitting on the ground.

 

John Hairell

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57 minutes ago, FM-Whip said:

 

The tall skids folded up on the SOTAS birds so that the radar pod could rotate.  They looked quite strange sitting on the ground.

 

John Hairell

John is right on.  Here's a JUH-1H SOTAS on static display northweast of I Corp Headquarters of Uilongbu, Korea. Photo by SSGT Ronald Seaman. Photo date Aug 31, 1976.  Note the smiley face on the front of the boom.  the other end had a sad face on it.

   Ray

 

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18 hours ago, CharlieUH-1H said:

man! do you have more picture of that Huey with all the orange stripes??

 

Charlie, I had one more taken of the Joint Commission UH-1H aft looking forward but this 35mm slide along with some others has disappeared since my move last year. I hunted for it again yesterday with no luck.

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1 minute ago, snake36bravo said:

 

Charlie, I had one more taken of the Joint Commission UH-1H aft looking forward but this 35mm slide along with some others has disappeared since my move last year. I hunted for it again yesterday with no luck.

 

Thanks man! it is ok!

that will be a cool huey to make with all that orange stripes!

 

Maybe Ray have some photos of them!

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12 hours ago, salvador001 said:

There are so many variants and paint schemes of the Huey that i cant imagine how many Kitty Hawk kits i will buy LOL.

 

Rod.

lol man... I dont know what I will do.... with the KH   $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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7 minutes ago, Fat Russian said:

Does anyone have any good pics of the Vis mod on the JUH-1H, I'm attempting to build the classic Revell UH-1D into one of the NTC birds, any photos of the the nose will be greatly appreciated.

 

FR.

Here's a few photos from various sources.  the nose is made form a highly modified M5 40mm turret.

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I hope that helps.

    Ray

 

 

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Here are a few pictures from my Dad's collection.  As far as I know, he or one of his unit took these pictures.

 

Obviously an Air America aircraft

RVN 0003

 

RVN 0020

 

The aircraft he was flying when he got shot down.  If KH ever releases its kit in 1/35, I want to build a diorama of this.  I have found the truck in 1/35.

RVN 0024

 

RVN 0025

 

Bullet hole in cowling

RVN 0026

 

More bullet holes

RVN 0030

 

RVN 0031

 

This was a well-worn aircraft.  Same aircraft shown in my signature below.  

RVN 0032

 

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On 5/13/2017 at 3:36 PM, snake36bravo said:

Project Left Bank operated by the ASA Army Security Agency- Originally there were three platforms operated. They were known as 'The Good' 'The Bad' and 'The Ugly' Here is one from April 1973 per the date on the photograph. The large nose mounted antenna was known as the Elephant brander.

 

 

 

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Interesting mod, and the seats are from a P-3 Orion. :)

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Thanks for the ID on the aircraft seats. I  had wondered about those seats for a long time. The whole radio room package slid in which you can see in that image sits above the cabin floor.  I wont bore anyone with pictures of the radios or receivers. The EH-1H and current EH-60A/L aircraft are the end product of Project Left Bank.

 

Project Left Bank communications intercept helicopter 'The Ugly' - 371st Radio Research Company, ASA ADF - 1969 image from Col Yates

 

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371st Radio Research Company 'The Good' ASA ADF Left Bank 1968-69 Phuoc Vinh, RVN image from Bob Herring

 

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Early UH-1D  Left Bank Huey with its distinctive elephant brander antenna. Image from Col. Carlos Collat. Not 100% ascertained but this image looks CONUS during stateside trials of the package.

 

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SPC Christopher Joseph Schramm, 371ST RRC, 509TH ASA GROUP, 1 CAV DIV, with his Left Bank Huey 'Snooper 1'. Chris was killed 13 May 1968 while en-route to Camp Evans when their vehicle struck a land mine. Chris jumped from the truck to go to the aid of other wounded soldiers and detonated a land mine.

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On 08/01/2018 at 10:58 PM, snake36bravo said:

I wont bore anyone with pictures of the radios or receivers.

 

I'd like to see the pics if you have any... (particularly close-up, high quality images).

 

Best I've come across to date is this:

 

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Original thread: 

 

Cheers,

 

Robert

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Spotted this on Facebook the other day, some of the best Left Bank interior photo reference I've come across to date (original post, photo details and credits, linked below):

 

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