Attack Synchropter up for adoption

[sandiego89]

With the RAF this would obviously be a Sergeant Gunner and an Officer Pilot (Remote) , tradition ya know Old Boy.  

Did the HH-34 ever carry weapons? I've never seen one do so, but then all the ones based here were tasked for airfield crash response and usually carried a big fire retardant tank underneath.

Think you transposed you numbers Kit, but yes a few HH-43 Huskies carried slung door guns in Vietnam. "Browning automatic rifle or .30-cal. machine gun in a door sling" from this site: http://www.historynet.com/arsenal-hh-43-huskie.htm

Not aware of any hard mounted guns or rockets.

Agree with Dizzy and the others on the drag/slow speed on an intermeshing design.  Not so great for an attack helo.  Great for lifting. Allows smaller overall size.  Complexity I say is a wash.  Without a tail rotor you get some survivability benefits.  Many helos have been lost with damage to the tail rotor or tail rotor drive shaft- due to enemy action, debris, striking trees, or parts just tired of rotating around and deciding they have had enough.   

[kerick]

Sounds like time to bash a cobra or Apache with a huskie and see what happens!

[PR19_Kit]

Think you transposed you numbers Kit, but yes a few HH-43 Huskies carried slung door guns in Vietnam. "Browning automatic rifle or .30-cal. machine gun in a door sling" from this site: http://www.historynet.com/arsenal-hh-43-huskie.htm

Darn it, I MUST get a new keyboard, preferably one with letters and numbers painted on the keys.....  

Thanks for that, I've had an Airmodel vacform Huskie 'in build' for at least 30 years now, and it looks better than the Mach 2 version in that you can see through the acres of glass! I must dig it out.

[sandiego89]

Think you transposed you numbers Kit, but yes a few HH-43 Huskies carried slung door guns in Vietnam. "Browning automatic rifle or .30-cal. machine gun in a door sling" from this site: http://www.historynet.com/arsenal-hh-43-huskie.htm

Darn it, I MUST get a new keyboard, preferably one with letters and numbers painted on the keys.....  

Thanks for that, I've had an Airmodel vacform Huskie 'in build' for at least 30 years now, and it looks better than the Mach 2 version in that you can see through the acres of glass! I must dig it out.

Gah, a MACH 2 Huskie- I fear that would leave something to be desired- especially with the clear parts...... had to google- ahhh yes- looks like typical MACH 2 glass- I'd say the glass is about 10 inches thick in 1/72 scale.          a review:   http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/16/t/90861.aspx

Definitely an under-WHIFFED subject.... 

-Dave

[Weaver]

It's not hard to whiff up an egg-beater style rotor system using two Huey twin-blade rotors, plastic card and evergreen tube. I did it for a still-unfinished Skyvan-based helo project:

[Gondor]

It's not hard to whiff up an egg-beater style rotor system using two Huey twin-blade rotors, plastic card and evergreen tube. I did it for a still-unfinished Skyvan-based helo project:

Only problem with using two Huey rotor sets is that one of them will need to be reversed or both sets will rotate into each other 

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Hehe, I LOVE the Roto-Budgie! 

Just the thing for FIGAS I'd have said............ [/hint]

[zenrat]

I wondered where all the Skyvan kits had gone.  Now I know, Weavers got them...

I've been seeing a lot of Skyvans on film & TV recently.  Maybe noticing is a better word.
Last one was painted all over gloss black and was in the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service.

[Captain Canada]

You gotta get back on that one Weaver ! Such a neat idea, and I love the big square fuselage.

[loupgarou]

And a very nice card model of the thing, 1/41 scale, more in my price range!

http://murphs-models.webs.com/helicopters    (second row down)

That is a awesome link, some great stuff there!

A free to download Belphegor!!!

But the description is dubious (copied and pasted from page)

PZL M-15 Belphegor
(Demon)
Scale 1:23
Difficulty level 666 out of 5

Interesting link, indeed. Does anybody knows the quality level of the models? I am sorely tempted to buy the Mil V-12.