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of the Sikorski HO-1 or H-5 for my uncle...

Jack I noticed your thread and it made me think of this...You got any hidden in your stash? I'd be like to buy one if it's a good shot of a Marine bird...I'd have to wait a bit but I would like to get a good one for him:)

I'm also looking for a model of any of the various makes, but can't find one...Anybody got a suggestion?

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Several years ago an Eastern European company called PAVLA made an R-4 kit (mixed media) in 1/72nd. It wasn't the greatest but it wasn't that bad just lots of photo etch and rude castings that could be coaxed into looking like rotor blades with a lot of massaging

Try Evil Bay

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Muddyboots,

I may be able to help with photos of the Sikorsky H-5 (USMC/Navy designation HO2S or HO3S, depending upon model) when I return home in a few days. The HO-1 designation has me scratching my head. That was a Hiller experimental design. Did you mean something else? Shoot me a PM as a reminder and let me see what I can dig up for you.

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Cheers,

Craig

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Lordy Craig, all those different designations just got me confused. What I am looking for is the Marine version of the Sikorsky H-5, or HO2S. I am pretty sure he's calling them an HO-1 tho. It is the three seat version where they took one side's door out and loaded wounded in crossways behind the pilot. I believe the HO3S' main difference was in the seating arrangement-it was refitted to more easily load wounded into it.


this is the version after the one I am looking for. It's close, but not quite. If I'm going to get him a photo, I'd like it to be the one he worked on specifically (you know how picky air nuts are--it'll bug him Now, the model could be any of the H-5's because I can modify it to make it right.

Inspector, I'm looking for the version right after the R4. The H-5 had a rounded look to it. I'm pretty sure HMX-1 (the unit his crews and helo's was pulled out of) had traded all their R-4's in by the time he got there. I know there was at east one of the H-5's produced somewhere, and there is a fiberglass body that you can put an RC helicopter into, but it's sort of large, and converting it would be a pain in the tuchus...

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

I photographed this one 'out the back' at Luton here in the UK.

Ex Royal Navy and serial KL112.

The scrap man got it.

PeterA