Rob Lyman Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 What is this helicopter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotorrodent Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 What is this helicopter? Modified Cobra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam32 Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Cheyanne...?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeletor Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icqa Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 (edited) It's the Bell YAH-63. It was in competition with the Hughes YAH-64. The Apache. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YAH-63. The bird to the right is a AH-56 Cheyenne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-56_Cheyenne Edited March 1, 2009 by icqa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Lyman Posted March 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 It's the Bell YAH-63. It was in competition with the Hughes YAH-64. The Apache. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YAH-63. The bird to the right is a AH-56 Cheyenne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-56_CheyenneThat's right. It's the Bell YAH-63. I found out about 30 minutes after posting this but thought I might wait to post the answer. Anyone want to guess where the picture was taken? Here's another one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechanic Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Here's the info you wanted, link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linc Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 (edited) That's right. It's the Bell YAH-63. I found out about 30 minutes after posting this but thought I might wait to post the answer. Anyone want to guess where the picture was taken? Here's another one:The outside Aviation Museum storage yards at Fort Rucker? The second pic is the Rotor System Research Aircraft built by Sikorsky. If you look around, or if you get access to the storage hangars, you'll find the Sikorsky's ABC helicopter, Lockheed's XH-51A and its compound sibling, Bell 207 Sioux Scout, Cessna CH-1 and a myriad of other helicopters from Army Aviation history. Lucky that they got the Bell X-3 rescued, or it might look even worse than these aircraft. Edited March 1, 2009 by Linc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Coaster Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 what one earth is that things parked beside it in the first photo... looks like a jet flighter with a rotor system coming out the top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Lyman Posted March 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 what one earth is that things parked beside it in the first photo... looks like a jet flighter with a rotor system coming out the top?That's the Cheyenne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Coaster Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 interesting, never heard of that machine before. at first I thought it was a fatter S67 model lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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