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A while ago I’ve bought Walt Shiel’s Cessna Warbirds book (ISBN 1-879825-25-2). On pages 289/290 he presents two photographs of the CH-41 mock-up, a version of the YH-41 with gas-turbine installation (see pic_1 and pic_2).
Steve Remington counters on http://www.collectair.com/cessna.html : "Although a turbine-powered CH-1 was envisioned and proposed, I am not aware that any designation of CH-41 ever existed. In any case, the photos and captions relating to the the "jet-engined CH-41" (page 289 and 290) are in reality pictures of the mockup for the LOH proposal, the CH-4, and did not "..retain the general arrangement, size and layout of the original YH-41..." as the engine was located behind the rear seats."
Comparing the pictures of the LOH proposal (see pic_3 and pic_4), you can find differences in the position of the exhaust nozzle and the grids behind the cabin. So I ask if the mock-up in pic_1 and pic_2 is the YH-41 after all (which is denied by Remington) or the LOH proposal CH-4 after modification?
Steve Remington counters on http://www.collectair.com/cessna.html : "Although a turbine-powered CH-1 was envisioned and proposed, I am not aware that any designation of CH-41 ever existed. In any case, the photos and captions relating to the the "jet-engined CH-41" (page 289 and 290) are in reality pictures of the mockup for the LOH proposal, the CH-4, and did not "..retain the general arrangement, size and layout of the original YH-41..." as the engine was located behind the rear seats."
Comparing the pictures of the LOH proposal (see pic_3 and pic_4), you can find differences in the position of the exhaust nozzle and the grids behind the cabin. So I ask if the mock-up in pic_1 and pic_2 is the YH-41 after all (which is denied by Remington) or the LOH proposal CH-4 after modification?