[Hoverbug]

I see Corgi is trying to pass off a Bell HTL-6 as a HTL-4 of VMO-6 in the Korean War. The HTL-6 post dates Korea by a few years. The baffling thing is that they have the correct mold for the HTL-4 and have used it in the past. The twin fuel tanks are the give-away. If you watch M*A*S*H, you'll notice that they all use post-war models with the twin side-mounted fuel tanks.

[SKUNKY]

WHAT?.....Corgi try to pull a stunt like that?........bite your tongue, Hoverbug!

[Hoverbug]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

WHAT?.....Corgi try to pull a stunt like that?........bite your tongue, Hoverbug!

Oh, I see how it is now - you fixed wing guys can get in a knot over P-51B antenna placement, but us rotorheads have to keep quiet when Corgi pulls a real boner. The fixed wing mafia is at it again.

[Canucklehead]

Corgi is just doing the best they can under very difficult circumstances. IF they made a mistake I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it. I watch M*A*S*H* all the time and I think their helicopters are lovely. I'm sure you'll be very happy with Corgi's fine representation of it. Enjoy!

[SKUNKY]

What Canucklehead said.

Now, the T-45 "U.S. Navy Goshawk" debacle is an entirely different story. Corgi was really tugging hard on the old boner with that one.

Also, P-51B antenna placement is not just a simple matter of asthetics.....it could effect national security.

P.S. -I'm never watching M*A*S*H again now that I know they've been duping us all along with those 2-gas-tanked whirleygigs. I feel like a damn fool...

[sniperUK]

The Goshawk just may be right,paragraph five of the link ,The model may be portraying it before the modifications following the initial tests before the square wingtips etc were fitted.

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/types/us.../t-45/T-45.htm

[jim]

Jim says Aeroplane with engine stopped = Glider. Helicopter with engine stopped = Brick.

Originally Posted by Hoverbug

Oh, I see how it is now - you fixed wing guys can get in a knot over P-51B antenna placement, but us rotorheads have to keep quiet when Corgi pulls a real boner. The fixed wing mafia is at it again.

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by sniperUK

The Goshawk just may be right,paragraph five of the link ,The model may be portraying it before the modifications following the initial tests before the square wingtips etc were fitted.

Even if it is, it's a cheesy thing for Corgi to do. Most people who would want a model of a Navy Goshawk would most certainly want it to replicate a fleet operational one......Now, back to that bogus M*A*S*H helio-chopter. If Corgi already had the mold for the correct one, they have absolutely no excuse whatsoever for using the HTL-6 mold other than that they just can't be bothered doing a little pre-production research...

[Hoverbug]

Originally Posted by jim

Jim says Aeroplane with engine stopped = Glider. Helicopter with engine stopped = Brick.

Depends on what you're in. On a plane, L/D is what makes it a glider (or not). In a helo it's rotor inertia. Something like a Robinson R22 with featherweight rotors, an autorotation is like somebody cut the cable in an elevator. In a Huey, it's no sweat - you may have enough inertia to put it down with no forward speed, pick it back up again, do a quick pedal turn and put it back down again. I'd much rather be airborne in a helo that's run out of gas than most propeller driven aircraft I've been in. The Piper Seminole I used to instruct in came down quicker and with a steeper descent angle engine out (and with much more forward speed) than any helicopter I've flown. However, to really be screwed, you need to be engine out in a Tiltrotor - no good options there.

[Old Fokker]

That really sounds technical Hoverbug. Sounds like you know what you're talkin' 'bout. Which would be easier landin' if you lost the prop?