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Jack Cook
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Thought you were calling me for a minute there :D

Nice pics, It's only in recent times that the Vietnam-era is gaining widespread interest.

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Nice pic's! Where's the HC-130? :wink:

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its about time we saw some HH-3E, HH-53C restored and made in a vietnam war SAR heritage flight .. who will do this tho???
.. the MH-53M are going out of srvice so could be demodded maybe? and rebuilt in TO-114 scheme and wah la .. and get those A-1J sandy on wing and there your prime airshow scene stealer...

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Deleted. How's that Shay?

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Take it to another forum Mudge.


Yeah I'm real waiting with baited breathe for a Jolly Green SAR team to hit the air show circuit.

Anybody notice the painted over markings? I'm not sure how common practice it was but i heard alot of Jolly Greens had their national markings painted over. I forget the exact reason....anybody? anybody?


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some of the 20th Green Pythons i think there were? used black HH-3Es for night and special runs into NVN and Laos etc.

They had all natioanl insignia removed and sometime normal JGG also had it removed not sure why tho

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Shay...I'll be glad to accede to the wishes of any forum MODERATOR.
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G'day Mudge,

Yeah, that's my 1915 Lithgow SMLE in my avatar. I'll start up a thread in the off-topic forum about it, seems like gun talk isn't allowed here.

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Great shots, Jack. I'm not a big helo guy, but that one is a great one.
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M-1 Garands being the exception of course :wink:

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I believe the U-shaped green area on the aft fuselage is aluminum channel that makes a card-holding slot for the US insignia. A lot easier than painting and re-painting at will. I believe many late-model A-1s are also missing US insignia.

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I seem to recall a similar U shaped channel on the side of some of the Aussie-registered and restored Trojans, to allow quick identity changes.

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