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Sikorsky CH-53 Helicopter (question about an accessory part)
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| 4/16/18
| rebelbase
Posted on 04/16/2018 12:33:58 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: PLMerite
“...that’s a CH-46.”
Holy crap, your right - how embarrassing (my lame defense is that it’s been a few decades - but don’t tell anyone...LOL)
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posted on
04/16/2018 4:55:24 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: Always A Marine
ha ha, ok, I surrender..... :^)
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posted on
04/16/2018 5:01:22 PM PDT
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Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: Robert A Cook PE
"The sponson extends out from the fuselage...."
Thanks, but I think you were aiming for someone else - I've lived and breathed aviation (primarily rotorcraft) for 35 years.
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posted on
04/16/2018 5:43:57 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: Rebelbase
Those "Sponsons" are fuel tanks. That is an MH-53E, the Navy's mine sweeping version of the Marine's CH-53E. It tows a hydrofoil (IIRC) sled that generates strong acoustic & magnetic fields to detonate underwater mines.
The sponsons on the earlier CH-53D carried 317 gallons of fuel each. IIRC, those on the MD-53D were about 500 gallons each.
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04/16/2018 8:27:54 PM PDT
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BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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