Question for the Huey junkie's

brutus,

I never loaded a Huey on a truck trailer before, but stateside they would pulled the rotor blades and mast becasue of bridge and overpass clearances.  Since you said this was in the middleast I guess you could get away with leaving the rotors and mast on.  You could show some 1/2 in. rope looped over the main blades and tied back to the front of the skids and over the tailboom making the rotors "level".  I've seen some canvas "socks" slipped over the blades with 1/2" in. rope attached.  Sorry no pic's for you. 

Saw one Huey on a truck while stationed at Ft  Stewart, the rotor blades were tied down as Mel described

Don't recall ever seeing socks used on a UH-1N.  The tip of each main blade has a small square tab sticking out with a hole in it.  The tie down is a strap with a hook on the end that goes through the hole.  I've got pictures of it I'll try to find. 

If the rotors are to be left on what most do when they haul it is tie the rotor to the tailboom in a flat horizontal position and then tie the front blades to the two skid toe rings in the front or to the flat bed trailer. That way it will normally pass under wires and bridges. I have seen many hauled this way in Lousiana on the back of a flat bed. We stopped often though to make sure the tie downs did not loosen up. We had a L3 Longranger come loose at the front and when we went through a bridge that had the suspension on the top the front blade caught one of the bridge;s cross-beams and ripped the entire helicopter off the back of the flat bed and up into the girders. It was totalled.

Charlie