We'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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:21:47 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:24:22 -0600 Alfred Hitchcock Presents.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85241 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85241 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:28:37 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85238 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85238 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:35:01 -0600 The only one of us who has any excess avoirdupois is the retired *Major*.

[tippity-tappity]

[checks size of last DFAS/VA deposit]

Yeah?  So?  What's yer point?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85237 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85237 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:15:10 -0600 Just like "skinny warrant officers"!

Heh. There are nine other 'Structor pilots over here with me, and all but one is a retired Warrant.

The only one of us who has any excess avoirdupois is the retired *Major*.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85234 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85234 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:56:58 -0600
Of course, it could also be the spot where they toss the crew-chief's spare tools in case the bird's grounded and needs a fix in the field, too-but why not put the tools up front with the crew? 

I think I'll stick to calling it a maintenance access.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85232 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85232 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:25:49 -0600 +1 HF6.... Lmao http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85230 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85230 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:32:25 -0600

So, did LaMigra get it? And (using best Valley Girl voice)...duh! Of COURSE it's not an external beer cooler for a skinny Chinook. Everyone knows that "skinny Chinooks" don't exist. Just like "skinny warrant officers"!
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85227 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85227 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:36:47 -0600 Zeppo's company did produce the clamps though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marman_clamp]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85224 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85224 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:36:50 -0600
Biggest visual difference is the cockpit instrumentation, the streamlined nose and an improved main rotor stabilization system -- the yellow "pads" on the rotor head in the pic LaMigra found. Nice, buddy!
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85217 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85217 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:38:57 -0600 I found you a *virtual* cockpit, and then I found these.  And the Indias are the newer ones, aren't they?  Of course, that's just wikipedia talking.  My knowledge here is pixel deep.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85213 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85213 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:52:51 -0600 http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=225418]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85212 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85212 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:48:38 -0600
Guess who's got 'em *now*, though?

Ever seen a Mike-India One-Seven-*India*?
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85208 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85208 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:42:43 -0600
I've found many pics with what appear to be "remove before flight" ribbons and/or warning labels, which indicates this thing sucks air in, or blows it out.  Meaning it could be an exhaust for something or an intake for something like an oil cooler, etc.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85202 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85202 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:09:02 -0600
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85199 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85199 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:29:17 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85197 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85197 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:18:20 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85195 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85195 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:55:50 -0600
Nope...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85188 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85188 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:14:03 -0600 It's further rearward than in any pics I have found, but I think it is a doppler radar fairing for measuring drift and airspeed whilst hovering or low and slow. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85167 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85167 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:09:20 -0600 The door is for the Bombardier's Mate, who had the job of ensuring that the tail of the bomb was in fact free before it was dropped, as early testing had shown that releasing the front of the bomb before the back would have adverse consequences.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85159 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85159 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:42:09 -0600 A box-shape device attached to the lower part of the rail beam houses the electronic countermeasures (ECM) system????? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85158 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85158 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:29:59 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85157 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85157 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:16:11 -0600
Since that looks like a maintenance door, it could be where the crew stash their back copies of Playboy or where the pilot looks in to make sure there's enough grease on whatever is supposed to be greased in there...like a universal coupling on the drive shaft.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85156 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85156 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:56:04 -0600
Still *wrong*, though...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85155 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85155 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:43:10 -0600 I like Mike's answer. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85154 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85154 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:30:29 -0600 And why does the flare/chaff dispenser look like it's attached to the aircraft with two really large hose clamps?

Ummmm -- because it *is*?

BTW, the aeronautical term for 'em is "Marman clamps" -- invented, believe it or not, by Zeppo Marx.

If you're wondering how I came to be a fount of such esoteric knowledge, we used smaller versions on the Loach to attach the exhaust stacks to the combustion chamber.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85153 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85153 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:57:58 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85151 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85151 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:43:31 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85150 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85150 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:40:01 -0600
By the way, is that a big yellow label reading "PROPELLER"?  If you don't know where the propeller is, I really don't think you should be operating the helo...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85149 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85149 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:36:17 -0600
And "nope"...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85146 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85146 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:19:03 -0600 It's either the blue-water cleanout point or the ElTee's seat. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85141 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/03/the_week_for_wh.html#comment-85141 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:37:46 -0600