Sikorsky S-61 Sea King

PR19_Kit · February 12, 2013, 03:53:32 AM

There's an expensive conversion kit (£42.00 worth of expensive!) for the 'Land King' available from Whirlybirds, but it's probably a LOT cheaper to do it yourself with two or more S-61 kits and some styrene sheet. There was a conversion article in a very ancient IPMS UK magazine on how to do exactly that.

MiB · February 12, 2013, 04:25:01 AM

Quote from: Aircav on June 03, 2010, 04:44:19 AM
Found this picture while looking in some old Flight International magazines

Which pic?

Captain Canada · February 12, 2013, 05:04:57 AM

Ya no/ removed pic. I know the sponsons have to be larger but what else is needed ? Love to build a few proper S-61s. Bristow's and CCG for sure....

Mossie · February 12, 2013, 07:53:42 AM

You meant the stretched S-61N, or is there something else? What I meant was to full remove the boat-hull and have a more conventional fueslage, kind of like what the Mi-8 was to the Mi-14.

PR19_Kit · February 12, 2013, 09:57:48 AM

The S-61L has almost a flat bottom to the hull, with just the 'bow' looking like a boat. It wouldn't be difficult to build a real flat bottom to one, but I'd baulk at doing that to a £42 conversion on an £8 basic kit!

Aircav · February 12, 2013, 10:35:39 AM

Captain Canada · February 12, 2013, 10:56:48 AM

Phew ! Glad they never made that Sea king

jcf · February 15, 2013, 10:16:10 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 12, 2013, 09:57:48 AM
The S-61L has almost a flat bottom to the hull, with just the 'bow' looking like a boat. It wouldn't be difficult to build a real flat bottom to one, but I'd baulk at doing that to a £42 conversion on an £8 basic kit!

Only flat on the port side and on the first, N300Y, only in the area of the fuselage extension.

I worked on the wiring side of the S-61 shortening program at Heli-Pro in the mid-90s, shortening L and N
models for the Canadian heli-logging market, and became intimately familiar with the innards of the beast.

I have some N model drawings copied from the structural manual, and somewhere, damned if I can find
it

, a drawing of the L model fixed gear.

Captain Canada · February 15, 2013, 03:02:11 PM

Cool stuff, Jon. Shortening them was a great idea and quite popular. I love Sea Kings !

jcf · April 30, 2013, 02:49:47 PM

S-61 based 'Universal Tactical Vehicle', very much a flying-crane arrangement:
~~http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%200077.html~~
(permanently dead link)

S-61N GA drawing:

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Typical instrument panel:
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reddfoxx · January 22, 2017, 07:21:09 AM

Searched but can't find a thread on the Sea King. We saw them a lot the other day at the US inauguration, and I got to thinking: are the Marine One versions the last Sea Kings flying? Who else has them?

DarrenP2 · January 22, 2017, 09:20:41 AM

going on all versions including westland and Agusta?

Royal Navy still operate the AEW variant as their last seakings. and I think the canadian Airforce are still operating theirs.

jcf · January 22, 2017, 10:00:31 AM

Subject already exists as Sikorsky S-61 Sea King:
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,28725.0.html

reddfoxx · January 22, 2017, 04:21:29 PM

Ah, thanks, I searched the site with no luck.

Surprised the RAF still has some. My searching showed a few each in several South American forces, some in Malaysia, and possibly two dozen in Canada.

reddfoxx · January 22, 2017, 04:26:14 PM

I posted in another thread about this, but the shots of VH-3s at the inauguration on Friday made me wonder how many Sea Kings are still in service. My quick online research shows: India, Malaysia, Venezuela, Iran, Spain, Peru, Argentina, and Brazil, all in very small numbers. Canada appears to have 24, being replaced in the next few years. Someone commented that a few RAF AEW versions are still in service.