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Dronte said:Boeing HLH (CH-62) and the civil derivative
Jemiba said:The destruction of the XCH-62 prototypes, that's one of the sad stories of the
last year, because it was scrapped at the end of 2005 (precise date not to hand
at the moment), with the explanation of the director of the Army Aviation Museum,
Mr. Maxham, that it "wasn't a significant aircraft and it isn't possible to preserve every
scrap of metal that at any time in the past belonged to an aircraft" :'(
With this argument, many aviation museums could be emptied at once !
CammNut said:Here is another of the JHL contenders - Boeing's Advanced Tandem Rotor Helicopter, supposedly drawing heavily on the design of the XCH-62 Heavy Lift Helicopter, which was built but never flown and last year was scrapped by the US Army's aviation museum in Ft Rucker because it had deteriorated dangerously...
i think i load all the pictures of the XCH-62 available on the net but i like to have detailed views or blueprints of it for making model. ;DTinWing said:This photo seems to be of 2005 vintage:
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cador said:i think i load all the pictures of the XCH-62 available on the net but i like to have detailed views or blueprints of it for making model. ;D
Thanks a lotOrionblamblam said:cador said:i think i load all the pictures of the XCH-62 available on the net but i like to have detailed views or blueprints of it for making model. ;D
I'm working on a set.
When will be they available ?Orionblamblam said:My next set of releases (in a week or so at: http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocsale.htm ) will include a number of Boeing Model 301 Heavy Lift Helicopter layout diagrams. The examples below are 1/10 full resolution.
cador said:When will be they available ?
i am very impatient
Jos Heyman said:The HLH that was at the Fort Rucker museum was only a mock-up not a prototype. At the time I was there (2001) the museum had limited display space and they concentrated on aircraft that had a significance in US Army history, not the mock up of a aircraft they never operated. The mock up was stored in a fenced compound and had by 2005 deteriorated to the extend that it had to be demolished.
I ahve attached a photo I took in 2001.
boxkite said:A Boeing-Vertol project for a future crane helicopter of 20-30 t payload. I'm interested in a model number.
SOURCE: German magazine "Der Flieger" 2-3/1970 (page 62)
Jemiba said:According to Vertiflite, winter 2005, there were the reasons, given by the director of the
museum of Army Aviation were as follows :
- "The contract for production was halted mid-way. It was never structurally completed.
It was never mechanically completed. It was never elctricall harnassed. It never flew."
The machine had rested in the open for quite long and suffered from corrosion, so there
were concerns, about the structural integrity and th availability of funds for preservation.
And it was not clear, how to move it away from its place (A flying crane operator was asked,
but couldn't do the job, at least not in time. And time was critical, as the date of the 50th
anniversary celebrations of Ft.Rucker couldn't be postponed of course.
And to show the deteriorated remains to the public, wouldn't have been good for the image,
so it was better to destroy the whole thing.
So, if it was, or was not a "real aircraft", still is open to definition, but I think, not the fact, that it
should have been kept preserved.
yasotay said:Tin Wing I am not sure how an ancient effort would have become, "another public accountability news story, something neither the military or the defense industry either wanted or needed." It was such an old effort I do not see how it could have become a PR fiasco for the Army, at least no more than any other military requirement that met an untimely financial death.
More like the offspring of an angry gorilla and robocopsferrin said:Looks like the offspring of a Mi-10 and a Chinook.