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Ztex
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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...

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It looks like an Allouette to me.

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Looks like a Brantley to me. Not super knowledgeable on helicopters though. :oops:

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Sikorsky H-5
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I'd say a Mickey Rooney Chopper 8)

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retroaviation wrote:
Looks like a Brantley to me. Not super knowledgeable on helicopters though. :oops:

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nope - Brantleys had skids - this one has wheels

I'd say it's a Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly

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If I could see his top hat I'd agree, Jack! :D
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http://www.rotors.org/305/305.htm
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Yep, looks like a Sikorsky Dragonfly.. [img][img]http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh211/wilfster/Ho3s_dragonfly.jpg[/img][/img]

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Swiss Mustangs wrote:
I'd say it's a Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly

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H-5, HO3S-1 S-51, its all a Dragonfly . . .
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Swiss Mustangs wrote:
I'd say it's a Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly

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H-5, HO3S-1 S-51, its all a Dragonfly . . .


roger that !

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retroaviation wrote:
Looks like a Brantley to me. Not super knowledgeable on helicopters though. :oops:

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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. :oops: 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. :)

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Martin's right because he saw the bumps on the instrument panel :shock: 8) :lol: :wink: :wink: :wink:

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It does look like an Sikorsky S-51. Can someone get a better picture of it? I am a fan of these.

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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
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