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  • Member since
    November 2006
  • From: United States
Really Fun Experience
Posted by ww2modeler on Friday, August 1, 2008 7:28 AM

So, my family just moved to Maryland and my dad works at PAX River NAS. So anyway.....one of his friends works on the RQ-4 Global Hawk. SO, we got to see that (pretty cool by itself). But then, on the way out, we walked (and stopped) in the maintence hangar for the Navy/Marine helicopters. THere were 2 AH-1 (Ws?) a BIG (duh) CH-53 and they were pulling all the panels off and the rotor housing was off so you could see all the "plumbing" AND there was a SH-60.........

And when we were driving out, an AH-1 took off and flew over at about 100ft.

That was fun,

David

Sorry, no pictures on a military installation.

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  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Friday, August 1, 2008 2:08 PM
Pretty neat to see the stuff up close and personal, isn't it? Especially when you can feel the beat of the Cobra's rotor blades...

 

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  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Ohio
Posted by mikepowers on Friday, August 1, 2008 2:36 PM

That would be an awesome experience.

It would make me want to go home and whip a model together. Big Smile [:D]

 

Mike

  • Member since
    November 2006
  • From: United States
Posted by ww2modeler on Friday, August 1, 2008 7:19 PM

 stikpusher wrote:
Pretty neat to see the stuff up close and personal, isn't it? Especially when you can feel the beat of the Cobra's rotor blades...

That was the first thing I said when it went over "STOP THE CAR AND ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS!" You could feel the beat of it....... great recruiting tool!Smile [:)]

 Then of course you have F-18s, P-3s, and C-130s taking off too.........

AND, since I am under 18, I got to go on "bring your kid to work day tour" and got to climb around the VX-20 planes (C-130, P-3, C-2, E-2, and the RQ-4 UAV), and the V-22 squadron planes.

One of the cool little trivia things (although not really relevent) was that the C-130 airframe was from 1962....pretty old (no offense to the older memebers of this forum).......especially for an airplane.

On the bench:

1/35 Tamiya M26 Pershing-0%

1/144 Minicraft P-38J Lightning-50%

Numerous 1/35 scale figures in various stages if completion.

 

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