[mustangdriver]

We walked out to see what the visiting aircraft's paint scheme looked like. Once we were on the roof, we heard the whoop whoop of the blades, and I knew right away what it was. Well, I have pics, but it won't upload. It was an old school Huey! There we go.

[Cavtanker]

I consider the Huey to be iconic helicopter in aviation history.

[skydriver]

It is amazing how the Huey has such a distinct sound. You can hear it comming from several miles away.

[Cavtanker]

I'd love to go for a ride in a Huey. When my father was in the Army, he was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. He got to go on many Huey rides with the pilots and got to fire the M-60 door guns for kicks. He almost got a MOS-reclass as Huey crew chief until an accident made him reclass into an admin job. And then he healed and PCS'ed to Munich, Germany in 1972.

[Shawn 507]

UH-1s rock and you are more apt to survive if the bird goes down, unlike the UH-60 Crashhawk! But nothing is better than a Huey or Cobra beating the air with its blades.

[Cavtanker]

With all this talk about helicopters, you would hope that a manfacturer would be paying attention. Especially regarding Cobra helicopters. In 1/72 scale.

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by Cavtanker

With all this talk about helicopters, you would hope that a manfacturer would be paying attention. Especially regarding Cobra helicopters. In 1/72 scale.

HobbyMaster have 1/72 Huey/Iroquois helicopters scheduled for release in a few months time . Hobby Master 1-72 Helicopter index page

[Lakota Mech]

They still fly Hueys here at NTC. I spent many a year maintaining them. You can actually fix them in the field and not have to plug into a current bush. Gee I wonder why they are so popular for fighting forest fires.

[tank nut]

That is the problum with stuff today, you need to plug it into a computer to find out what is wrong, then need 20 guys to fix it. the old school stuff was just so much easy to fix.

[STARMAN 352ND]

They still have 3 or 4 Huey's that fly out here from the airport and one of them is a CDF (Cailf Dept fire) Huey..
They are my favorite Heli....