At the airport near my home, a new hanger was built. It is in the middle of a civilian airport but this new hanger is for MILITARY planes and choppers. The mayor was there in the morning celibrating the new hangerr and the new military stuff so a ah64d longbow apache, a ah 58 kiowa, and a bell 206 trainer were flown in.

I went later the day after big wigs left and I was the only guy that didnt work there, or news/big wig there. The apache is huge! it makes semi trucks look small. The main rotar blade is 16 inches wide. The chopper is about 20+ feet tall and 65+ feet long. The 30mm chain gun is about 3 & 1/2 feet long. The pilot came up and asked me if i had been in the cocpit yet. I said no, and he opened the canopy and let me get in. I got pictures everywhere. Gun, missiles, rockets, engines, cocpits, tail, rotars, everything. I go home and there was no film in my cammera. I was PO. Turns out that the helicopter was delayed and didnt leave until about 4:30 the next day so I was able to get a few pictures afterall. But I wasnt able to get the cocpit again, nor any with me in the pictures.
What is really weird is the helicopter is NOT all metal. It is mostly Kevlar reinforced fiberglass. The pilot even said a .22 would go through it.

He then explained that around the important areas(engines, cocpits, hydrolics, electronics, avionics, and such) are in titananium armor. It was so cool

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