Rotary Wing Aircraft

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Ukrainian Mi-8 landing at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

USMC Bell UH-1N Huey at Camp Udari, in Kuwait. This was a major camp near the Iraqi border where every staged and prepped before crossing into Iraq.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

USMC AH-1W Super Cobra

This was somewhere in Iraq, I don't remember exactly where though.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Something you don't see everyday. A South Carolina National Guard AH-64A Apache painted grey and with a shark mouth.

I took this at our base in Iraq, Camp Speicher

 

[Wurger]

 

[special ed]

Something you don't see everyday. A South Carolina National Guard AH-64A Apache painted grey and with a shark mouth.

I took this at our base in Iraq, Camp Speicher

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Was Camp Speicher named for the Naval Aviator missing in Iraq?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Was Camp Speicher named for the Naval Aviator missing in Iraq?

Yes

Camp Speicher - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[DBII]

1990's Stateside, our Georgia Army National Guard Infantry Battalion conducted frequent Air Assault and Sling Load Ops. We actually pioneered and tested the Tandem Humvee hook-ups with the custom "Knuckle" connecting the two vehicles shown under the Chinook.

Love the sky crane. I have some photos filed away from the 70s taken with an 126 point and shoot. My trips in the air was always in a CH47. Other trips always got grounded while in Germany due to weather.

 

[DBII]

Duha. I posted photos above then saw where I started the tread.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Eisenhower Park, years ago...

 

[Capt. Vick]

 

[manta22]

Back in the '90s I worked for Kaman Aerospace. The division here in Tucson developed the Magic Lantern mine detection system that was fitted on USN SH-2 Super Sea Sprite helicopters. The main division also produced this odd-looking duck, the Kaman K-MAX.

 

[SaparotRob]

Back in the '90s I worked for Kaman Aerospace. The division here in Tucson developed the Magic Lantern mine detection system that was fitted on USN SH-2 Super Sea Sprite helicopters. The main division also produced this odd-looking duck, the Kaman K-MAX.View attachment 721407

Reminds me of the Great Gazoo.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

French Gazelle at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo.

 

[Wurger]

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Italian MD500s in Kosovo. One at Camp Bondsteel, the other at Film City.

Edit: both at Bondsteel. It's been 20 years. lol

 

[Wurger]

 

[manta22]

Same model in Kauai- they fly with the doors off.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Same model in Kauai- they fly with the doors off.

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Its warmer there…

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Polish Mi-8 in Babylon, Iraq.

We had a 58 blow out a chin bubble and we had to land here so the mechanic we were carrying could do a temp repair.