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Posted: Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 02:43 AM UTC
After putting my modelling on hold for several months I have been inspired to have another go but would like to know if any one can point me in the direction of good sites or pictures of the UH1D Vietnam era as I have not decided to leave the seats in or not and would like some ides of what was the norm in Vietnam

Many Thanks
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Posted: Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 03:26 AM UTC
Scott, a google image search has turned up with a ton of pics.. UH-1D

Or this site might be a good place to start
http://www.vietnamwar.com/

Dave
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Posted: Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 04:32 AM UTC
Dave

Cheers for that mate many thanks i am just a lazy bugger at heart
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Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 08:06 AM UTC
Scott,
I was a Huey Slick driver during 1969 .... first with the 101st at Camp Evans then with the 240th at BearCat. We were using H models by then but I don't think the seat configuration was different...
At Bearcat our company would typically send two flights out...one with 5 ships and one with 4 ships... and 4 C model gunships supporting us ... two on each side making a circle while we inserted troops. On all these ships we would only have the door gunner,crewchief seats with the seat against the transmission wall.... Above us would be 'C and C' ... Command and Control... and that ship would have the full complements of seats so the commanders could watch and direct what was happening on the ground.
One other ship was typically sent out... the ' ash and trash' run... which might be sent to take anyone imaginable around to anywhere they needed to go... it usually had the full seat configuration. One of those runs was the longest day I had in Viet Nam... 11 hours and 45 minutes of actual blade time... Sometimes our passenger area looked like these buses you see in Mexico... with Vietnamese holding live chickens in their laps. ---- Greyhound 23
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Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 03:32 PM UTC
hello Scott
I got shoved around a bit in a few hueys. Jumped out of a few and got picked up by a few more. Have the greatest amount of respect for all you that drove hueys in Nam. My older brother was a door gunner in the early 70's over there to.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 07:04 PM UTC
The guys above have given you great info. For more on Hueys and helos in general, stop by the Aeroscale (air side of Armorama) Rotary Wing Forum. Click on Aeroscale in the Switch Sites box at the top of the page.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 07:44 PM UTC

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Scott,
I was a Huey Slick driver during 1969 .... first with the 101st at Camp Evans then with the 240th at BearCat. We were using H models by then but I don't think the seat configuration was different...
At Bearcat our company would typically send two flights out...one with 5 ships and one with 4 ships... and 4 C model gunships supporting us ... two on each side making a circle while we inserted troops. On all these ships we would only have the door gunner,crewchief seats with the seat against the transmission wall.... Above us would be 'C and C' ... Command and Control... and that ship would have the full complements of seats so the commanders could watch and direct what was happening on the ground.
One other ship was typically sent out... the ' ash and trash' run... which might be sent to take anyone imaginable around to anywhere they needed to go... it usually had the full seat configuration. One of those runs was the longest day I had in Viet Nam... 11 hours and 45 minutes of actual blade time... Sometimes our passenger area looked like these buses you see in Mexico... with Vietnamese holding live chickens in their laps. ---- Greyhound 23


Scott

I also have one of these on the shelve I am keen to start. I will be watching this thread with great interest.

Greg

Awesome info. I was wondering on the seating, for the Helo's carrying, were the middle seats completely removed or folded and stowed.

Thanks in advance

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Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 09:05 PM UTC

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i am just a lazy bugger at heart


But maybe you can even so take a look at these Vietnam war helicopter units websites for info and pics


Here's a example : http://www.casperplatoon.com/

HTH
Frenchy
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