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can anyone tell me what kind of helicopter is this
https://pbs.twimg.com ^ | Nov 30 2023 | Beowulf9

Posted on 11/30/2023 10:23:50 AM PST by Beowulf9

Two of these passed over our house a few min ago. Very slowly and the motor sound was very loud. Obviously they were big.

I live near the Arizona National Guard Papago Park Military Reservation and so I'm sure it came from there. We do get some interesting craft from there overhead at times.

I'm just curious. What is it carrying? It looks like a bomb but I am guessing that it isn't. ?


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To: ping jockey

Can’t tell if it’s a Longbow without seeing the dome on top..


81 posted on 11/30/2023 3:11:50 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Beowulf9

That is a V-22 Osprey.


82 posted on 11/30/2023 3:14:37 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Bikkuri
To anyone that says there is only a UH60, here is an AH60 (minus a fuel pod):













But, I do stand corrected, the tail rotor is on the wrong side, and not slanted on the original post.
83 posted on 11/30/2023 3:25:02 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I didn’t say it was a Black Hawk. Sure you got the right reply to?


84 posted on 11/30/2023 3:31:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I was just making a general comment but I don’t think its an Apache either. Probably a Sea Cobra.


85 posted on 11/30/2023 3:39:27 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Bikkuri

They flew a few of those over our house once, too. I did take pictures of it back then and I think I put them on FR but there is no way to go through all my posts here. I wish we had a better way to look things up more specifically.

It sure looked heavy.


86 posted on 11/30/2023 4:02:58 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Georgia Girl 2
It is definitely not a (Sea) Cobra. A cobra would be much more narrow, and have skids instead of wheels.
It would also only have 2 main and tail rotors, not 4.
87 posted on 11/30/2023 4:09:18 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Beowulf9


"I wish we had a better way to look things up more specifically"


Lol.. you and me both 😉
88 posted on 11/30/2023 4:13:02 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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(BTW, the Super Cobras did have 4x4 rotors)
89 posted on 11/30/2023 4:17:13 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Could be. But I stand with apache because I can see 4 blades on the main rotor. Cobras/sea cobras only have 2 main rotor blades.


90 posted on 11/30/2023 6:53:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beowulf9

Thank YOU, these are beautiful.

I am partial to paintings with water in them so, like you, I like the one with the river running through it!


91 posted on 11/30/2023 9:10:50 PM PST by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: YouGoTexasGirl
California has more water than Arizona ;) Misty-morning-at-Ragged-Point
google images friends

92 posted on 11/30/2023 9:46:01 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
Osprey Tilt rotor

I got to ride in one in Iraq from Liberty base to Haditha dam.

I prefer CH46's as long as it has hydraulic fluid leaking.
the Marines when I was in called it the "flying sh!tter" which was better than the CH53 which was called the crowd killer (when it falls out of the sky it kills a crowd)

93 posted on 12/01/2023 7:29:54 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: Beowulf9
just wow!

Impressive!

94 posted on 12/01/2023 7:33:40 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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OMG! I’d be afraid to go up in one. They look so heavy, I can well imagine the reason for their nickname!.


95 posted on 12/01/2023 8:00:48 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s my guess.....


96 posted on 12/01/2023 8:07:30 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well good eye on the skids. You’re right. I think maybe its a Hind. From underneath the Hind looks most like the pic posted. I know we have some Hinds but I didn’t think about it.


97 posted on 12/02/2023 8:58:11 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Bikkuri

I just read this on Twitter (X)

“The U.S. Navy has ordered the grounding of all military Osprey aircraft after eight service members died in a crash off Japan”.


98 posted on 12/06/2023 5:02:27 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Bikkuri

You prob know this already but someone put this up.

https://twitter.com/WrektR/status/1732557373305196573/photo/1


99 posted on 12/06/2023 5:04:21 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

I never liked that d*mn thing. Lost a few friends while they were beta-testing, so it doesn’t surprise me.
Pray for their families.


100 posted on 12/06/2023 5:36:46 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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