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#1 moubeus5018

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Posted 20 August 2006 - 01:12 PM

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. :blink: 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. :blink: 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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Posted 20 August 2006 - 01:38 PM

Thats awsome!!! Titanium heli!!! I want one <_<
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#3 moubeus5018

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Posted 20 August 2006 - 03:56 PM

Thats awsome!!! Titanium heli!!! I want one <_<



Most of the body is actually fiber-glass and not metal. The titanium and other forms of armor are only around the vital areas. At least 60% of airframe is fiber-glass.
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Posted 20 August 2006 - 04:05 PM

I wonder why. I would say price, but you're already spending 10 mil... why not swap out fiberglass for metal?

I was going to say weight -- they would've made everything titanium but it weighed too much, so they swapped fiberglass for the unimportant parts. Of course, then I remembered how much titanium weighs...
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#5 elf avec gun

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Posted 21 August 2006 - 02:59 PM

Hey do you have any pictures? I would love to see some if you have any!!!
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Posted 21 August 2006 - 03:46 PM

Just goes to show, digital is the way to go.

That's copyrighted, you damn rip-offs.
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#7 moubeus5018

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Posted 21 August 2006 - 03:50 PM

I do have pictures and they have not been developed yet.
The only reason that most of airframe is fiberglass is weight. The pilot said that if all metal the engines would not have enough power.


I am waiting for a blackhawk to come in so i can get pics with me at the minigun.

Edited by moubeus5018, 21 August 2006 - 03:52 PM.

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#8 joeyaglr444

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Posted 29 August 2006 - 06:11 PM

I got to touch the sexieness of a 7.62 Gatlingg gun once ounted on a f 16 i also got to hold an M-16
The military was at the C.N.E.

SO sexyness
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#9 moubeus5018

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Posted 30 August 2006 - 03:44 PM

I got to touch the sexieness of a 7.62 Gatlingg gun once ounted on a f 16 i also got to hold an M-16
The military was at the C.N.E.

SO sexyness



Dude a f16 has a 20mm gat. Not a 7.62 minigun. Miniguns are on blackhawks, little birds, and some hwmmvs.
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 05:11 PM

Oh ya i forgot it was a gatling gun i need more ammo than 525 lol i didnt know they could mount up on humvees.
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