Helicopter topic

[Hurricane]

Just one;


Adios, Hurricane.

[tomh]

CH-54A Tarhe 68-18467 of the CT ARNG at Pease AFB, NH 25 July 1982

[Iwan Bogels]

Wow Tom, you seem to have been a round for quite some time.... F-102's in one topic, Barnes A-10's in another and this CH-54 Skycrane here. I envy you !

Fortunately some of these Skycranes now fly with Ericksson choppers, doing fire fighting and heavy lifting.

Please keep the nice old shots coming,
Iwan

[eagle-keeper]

We had vacation in Austria and in Pass Thurn, between Kitzbühel and Mittersill, we saw this "beautiful" old Slowakian airplane.

However it was an old flying helicopter, a real Mi-8, but, as you can see, it was already so old that is wasn't good to see.






There was a number on it: 0817

[tomh]

Iwan-glad you enjoy my photos. I don't know that age has many advantages, but I started taking aircraft photos with an Agfa Billy Record 120 camera when I was 12 years old and I'm still shooting. Here's one that I took on 21 November 1961, when I was 15. By this time the camera had developed a light leak in the bellows, and I have done my best to Photoshop the problem out of the image.

This was a month after a Kaman H-43B set a world class altitude record of 32,000 feet. I believe this Huskie was one of two assigned to SAC's Westover AFB, Base Rescue Flight as a MATS detachment. Why this successful world-wide emergency helo service was abandoned by USAF by the mid-70s is not clear to me.

You can see in the background of this photo why living near this huge (4,500 acre) base had a big impact on me as a lad.

[mart]

long time since I have posted here

Some from my specil place today


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[Ghanz]

Almost one month ago:




Greetz,
Hans.

[js51672]

Aachen, Aken, EDKA 31-10-2009

[RogierV]

Cheers, Rogier

[dinovandoorn]

Some real small Helo's comparing those mighty Chinooks

Taken at Utsonomiya

[ssb-spotting]

Cheers, Rogier

I think this is the first time I see this on a Dutch Chinook, but is that engine intake system new? Or do they normally only use it in Afghanistan to protect the engine against dust? I'm not sure but I think I've never seen this before on a Dutch CH47D.

Off course it's a very good protection against dust, but your engine will also get less air, so the performance of your engine will decrease. Anyone with more information

Nevertheless, it's a great picture Rogier!

[jimmy van drunen]

I found some old pictures of The Slopes (Gilze-Rijen ,EHGR), made with a compact camera;

Cougar S-419






Other day..., S-419


Chinook, D-664






Cougar, S-433





Jimmy

[Henk66]

Are those floating devices on the S419?

[pierre]

The inletscreen you seen on the chinook is indeed for protection against sand.
Because they train a lot on the brown out landings damage can occure.
That is why they modify the engine`s.
And about power loss you can almoust for get about that.
It only will cost up to 3% max.

[ssb-spotting]

about the engine inlet protection screen

And I want to say thanks for this information Pierre! You're right, 3% is acceptable.
The "old" engine inlets had also a kind of filter in front of the engine inlet.

Thanks for your information Pierre!

Edit: Am I right as I suggest that the dust and sand becomes centrifugated and on this way it becomes removed via the left outside of the protection screen?