What kind of Helicopter is this?
Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:47 am
In scanning old photos you notice funny things....
See the helo in the back ground? What is it? Anyone know about it?
Aero Valley airport, TX @ 1982 or so...
See the helo in the back ground? What is it? Anyone know about it?
Aero Valley airport, TX @ 1982 or so...
Last edited by Ztex on Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:56 am
It looks like an Allouette to me.
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:06 am
Looks like a Brantley to me. Not super knowledgeable on helicopters though. 
Gary
Gary
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:11 am
Sikorsky H-5
???
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:16 am
I'd say a Mickey Rooney Chopper 
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:17 am
retroaviation wrote:Looks like a Brantley to me. Not super knowledgeable on helicopters though.
Gary
nope - Brantleys had skids - this one has wheels
I'd say it's a Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly
Martin
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:21 am
If I could see his top hat I'd agree, Jack! 
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:29 am
Yep, looks like a Sikorsky Dragonfly.. [img][img]http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh211/wilfster/Ho3s_dragonfly.jpg[/img][/img]
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:30 am
Swiss Mustangs wrote:I'd say it's a Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly
Martin
H-5, HO3S-1 S-51, its all a Dragonfly . . .
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:37 am
skybolt2003 wrote:Swiss Mustangs wrote:I'd say it's a Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly
Martin
H-5, HO3S-1 S-51, its all a Dragonfly . . .
roger that !
Martin
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:40 am
Swiss Mustangs wrote:retroaviation wrote:Looks like a Brantley to me. Not super knowledgeable on helicopters though.
Gary
nope - Brantleys had skids - this one has wheels
Hmmm, I just saw a hangar this past weekend, in Bum-diddly, TX (somewhere out in the absolute, middle of nowhere, on my drive back from Altus, OK, to Midland, TX), that had about five or six Brantley projects stuffed in the lien-to shop area. They all had wheels. They were only hulks, and all had EXPERIMENTAL placards on them. Not real sure what the plan for them was. I found them interesting, but somehow failed to snap any pictures of 'em. Didn't think anyone would be interested in them.
I'll snap some shots of them the next time I'm lost and in that area.
But I tend to agree that the one in the picture at the top of this thread is definitely not a Brantley.
Gary
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:42 am
Martin's right because he saw the bumps on the instrument panel 
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:18 pm
It does look like an Sikorsky S-51. Can someone get a better picture of it? I am a fan of these.
Regards,
Art S.
Regards,
Art S.
what type of helicopter
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:50 pm
It also looks like a aouette11, there is no rotor cowl and the nose wheel sloops rearward unlike a s-51, the cabin area is too rounded and low to be a 51