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Re-checking the excellent flypast listing posted earlier, there are in fact a few helos missing. After the pair of Ospreys there were 4 x UH-1's and 4 x AH-1's ( not 2 of each ) plus there were 12 x ch-46's ( not 10 ). Any ideas ?
There were ten CH-46 in the flypast. YT-00, 06, 13, 15; PF-10, 12, 13, 14 followed a little later by ML-403 & 407 which did a rescue demonstration over the bay.
I think that some of the UH-1s and AH-1s which flew through had already taken part in the flypast. I certainly read off UH-1Y 168003 & AH-1W & 165276/VT-21 twice.
hawk666 wrote:Re-checking the excellent flypast listing posted earlier, there are in fact a few helos missing. After the pair of Ospreys there were 4 x UH-1's and 4 x AH-1's ( not 2 of each ) plus there were 12 x ch-46's ( not 10 ). Any ideas ?
The four Hueys/Cobras in the top part of the list returned to do a fly through with four others, forgot to mention that. So all eight numbers are in the list.
There were only ten Phrogs AFAIK, eight that flew through and two that peeled off for a rescue demo.
I didn't log USCG HH-60J 6033 in the main flypast and assumed it was displaying low over the water, but 6032 flew over the airfield just before the main flypast and a few minutes after. Can you confirm 6033 flew?
Hereby some logs from some hangars at North Island, as it is not complete I would appreciate any inputs. Due to sometimes somewhat 'critical' situations I did not log most of the codes and didn't look up all the types etc yet (straight from the logbook)
In the main hangar (close to the parking) of HSM77 (plus other squadrons)
I did note:
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I saw about 4 more but got somewhat noticed so had to leave
paddyw56 wrote:I bow to better eyesight and acknowledge that the MH-60 I read off before and after the display was indeed 6033.
Please note that I saw 6033 take off from the CG station, fly towards the swimmer, pull him out of the water, turn in front of me and fly straight back to the airport. It was in the air for five minutes tops.
So you might have seen 6032 in the air before and after the flypast.....
hereby a list from the active ramps on the day before the show, they were still flying and doing normal missions on Friday. There were more but I think I got about 70-80%:
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