It can be seen on the virtual tour of the museum https://virtualusmcmuseum.com/tour/leatherneck/assault-from-the-sky/frnYs
Saturday, July 29, 2023
a cool exhibit in the National Museum of the Marine Corps museum, but photographed before the blades were installed. The Sikorsky UH-34D display depicts the opening morning of Operation Starlite in Vietnam in August 1965.
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Those things had a pretty big rotor diameter (56' if I recall) so even a model would have to be parked a ways from the wall. Guess they just didn't have room for that.
ReplyDeletecertainly, but, there is no tail rotor either. Really good detail work on this, the body panels are dimpled perfectly
DeleteThey're hard to dust......
ReplyDeletegood point!
DeleteChoppers ? yeah...We just lost another four in Qld.Three of yours in a ill conceived unit few years back. Eighteen of our elite SAS in two BlackHawks before that. War games?...No,they are not "games". RIP mates.
ReplyDeleteNot a model. It can be seen here at link to virtual tour of National Museum of the Marine Corps. https://virtualusmcmuseum.com/tour/leatherneck/gallery-entrance/KPuwp
ReplyDeletethanks! This first photo I found looks like a small diorama model, and even in the virtual tour website, it looks smaller than lifesize. Camera optics are often doing that because of the lens size and f stop. No doubt the virtual tour was recorded with a fish eye lens. Thank you for the link and info, I added that to the post!
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