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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:09 am Post subject: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
i take it this is for real. everyone can see it right? wasnt sure if this was some photoshop magic or not... got to love it. we had nothing like this in any of our squadrons, but i wish we had. it give me some great afv ideas!

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:15 am Post subject: Re: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
I got this a week or so ago. It looks to be real. COOL STUFF!! Don

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: Re: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
This is real, but those are two different birds. Go to this site; www.mozeyoninn.com/Air...HMH466.htm , and you'll see these aircraft, read about the unit, how the helo's were painted, and just compare the size of a Sea Stallion to a "little" Chinook that it is carrying! _________________ SFC Jeff Button "High Angle Hell"

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: Re: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
The big boy is called a "duse" ei CH53, here at New River MCAS NC you see both camos browns and grey-blue

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:35 am Post subject: Re: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
Hi Folks! I saw those photos a few weeks ago. I just figured someone had used Photo Shop or something like that to doctor the photos. I didn't think those paint jobs were real. Sgt, Scouts Out! _________________ "You can never have too much reconnaissance." General G.S. Patton Jr.

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:30 am
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- SFC_Jeff_Button

This is real, but those are two different birds. Go to this site; www.mozeyoninn.com/Air...HMH466.htm , and you'll see these aircraft, read about the unit, how the helo's were painted, and just compare the size of a Sea Stallion to a "little" Chinook that it is carrying!

That isn't a Chinook. It's the 'hooks smaller cousin the CH-46.

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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
OOOppps, my bad. _________________ SFC Jeff Button "High Angle Hell"

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:35 pm
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Hey Jeff!

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OOOppps, my bad.

That is a very easy mistake to make and many people do it.

The trick to telling those two Boeing aircraft apart, when you can see the landing gear, is the CH-47 has four wheel struts while the smaller CH-46 only has three. Two aft and one centered at the front.

One other way is if you know the photo is of a Marine air unit, then it is a CH-46 because they don't use (AFAIK) the CH-47.
If the photo of a Chinook looking helo is of an Army unit, that bird will be a 47 because the Army (AFAIK) never used the 46.

Hope this helps.

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Love the Marines camouflage ideas from wingy thingy
...and CH-47's have a noticeable protruding "nose" below the windscreen, whereas the CH-46 makes a smoother continuous slope from top to bottom. Much nicer looking than the CH-47.

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