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  <title>Comments for Whatsis? Is This...</title>
  <subtitle>We&apos;re the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost.  All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT,  and KA 2003-2007</subtitle>
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    <published>2006-04-06T06:27:08Z</published>
    <updated>2006-11-11T16:53:30Z</updated>
    <title>Whatsis? Is This...</title>
    <summary>Some valiant efforts at trying to figure out which helicopter had a water pressure gauge on the instrument panel. Sorry, but no cigar, not even to John--although he gets an Attaboy for not snooping around Fototime... You&apos;re gonna screech like a scalded owl when I tell ya, but before you form the lynch mob, just remember that you gave John a pass when he posted a pic of a WWI Rooskie rifle grenade used only by corporals nicknamed &quot;Sasha&quot; in odd-numbered trenches on alternate Thursdays between March and June of 1917. Now, there&apos;s a reason that the water pressure gauge...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Some valiant efforts at trying to figure out which helicopter had a <b><a href="http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/005586.html">water pressure gauge on the instrument panel</a></b>. Sorry, but no cigar, not even to John--although he gets an Attaboy for not snooping around Fototime...</p>

<p>You're gonna screech like a scalded owl when I tell ya, but before you form the lynch mob, just remember that you gave John a pass when he posted a pic of a WWI Rooskie rifle grenade used only by corporals nicknamed "Sasha" in odd-numbered trenches on alternate Thursdays between March and June of 1917.</p>

<p>Now, there's a reason that the water pressure gauge</p>

<p><img src="http://www.fototime.com/{28AAA099-D153-4D1D-89A7-3A6D1DEBFC71}/picture.JPG" border=0 alt="RW Water Gauge"></p>

<p>looks like the <a href="http://www.fototime.com/{15ADADD4-F0E2-4B8B-8AB2-E865A39E1EBB}/picture.JPG"><b>oil pressure gauge</b></a> which looks like the <a href="http://www.fototime.com/{E3CAC773-4F77-4E3C-AC4B-CB7422D740E7}/picture.JPG"><b>fuel pressure gauge</b></a> which looks like the <a href="http://www.fototime.com/{9707A4F8-40A7-4175-B56B-5083D8BE2D7A}/picture.JPG"><b>torquemeter</b></a>.</p>

<p>That reason is this --</p>

<p><img src="http://www.fototime.com/{733C3C52-EB1B-4AE9-9F88-018C77D1B5AE}/picture.JPG" border=0 alt="Multipurpose Gauge-Rear"></p>

<p>It's a multipurpose gauge. Press the <a href="http://www.fototime.com/{48B2B05C-D5D1-4AEA-870F-311C50BD1D79}/picture.JPG"><b>magic button twice</b></a> and you're looking at any one of four labels. You'll find this particular model in most of the UH-1C/-D/-H/-Ms that got busted up in Vietnam and went to the depot at Corpus Christi for rebuild (evidently, the depot got a good deal on a manufacturer's overrun). The newer gauges have a setscrew in place of the button, so it's impossible for the puckish Instructor Pilot to mess with a nervous pilot's mind.</p>

<p>Preflight: *double-click behind the instrument panel while you're checking the electrical compartment in the nose* </p>

<p>During Flight: </p>

<p>Option One: "Okay, what are your normal torque limitations?"<br />
*victim scans frantically for anything saying "torque" and blows right past the "water gauge"*</p>

<p>Option Two: "Water pressure's a tad high--did you check the overflow reservoir for crud?"<br />
*victim knows damwell there's nothing in the Huey that uses water except the crew, but sees the "water pressure" gauge and panics*</p>

<p>Option Three: "Hey--this gauge is marked bassackwards. Water pressure redline is 45psi, not 35..."<br />
*victim tries to assess information, starts blinking in confusion, gives himself a case of flicker vertigo*</p>

<p>Okay--next snipe hunt won't be quite this esoteric. And the pics will at least be in focus *crossing eight fingers and both thumbs*</p>

<p>Heh! Can't wait to see what Neffi comes up with when he tries to figger out what an intervalometer is... </p>]]>
      
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    <title>Comment from cw4(ret)billt on 2006-04-07</title>
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        <![CDATA[<i>Intervalometer: the minimum distance between two "valos".</i>

Actually, it's measured in barleycorns...

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    <published>2006-04-07T06:12:22Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from cw4(ret)billt on 2006-04-07</title>
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        <![CDATA[Well, geez, you're *supposed* to use water with <a href="http://www.dialcorp.com/index.cfm?page_id=2" rel="nofollow"><b>Dial</b></a>...]]>
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    <published>2006-04-07T06:10:44Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2006-04-06</title>
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        Pilot to Crew Chief: We&apos;re not using oil anymore, &apos;cause the dial now says &quot;water&quot;.

Cheers
JMH
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    <published>2006-04-06T16:36:04Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Cricket on 2006-04-06</title>
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        *blinks rapidly*

Why of course.  Anyone can see that if you press the magic button it morphs into what you need.  Not only that, it was just so obvious those were the choppers that used it.

(NOT TO THIS RECOVERING BLOND)

I echo the Armorer.  Good one, Bill.
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    <published>2006-04-06T16:15:36Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2006-04-06</title>
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        Good one Bill.
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    <published>2006-04-06T12:22:20Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2006-04-06</title>
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        Intervalometer: the minimum distance between two &quot;valos&quot;.

Cheers
JMH
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