I've got some questions for our resident MH-53J experts here.
1. Is the upper section of the tail ramp doors removed and never carried? The Cutting Edge Modelworks Weapons Set instructions said something like this.
2. Describe the Flight Engineer's seat. The seat wasn't included in the conversion sets so I have to scratchbuild one.
3. What kind of personal equipment is carried and where on the helicopter is it carried?
4. Where are the electronic control boxes for the miniguns located? The Cutting Edge instructions place them aft of the ammo bins, but I don't believe that where they are on the real aircraft.
5. Was the MH-53J Pave Low III used to support Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, or was the MH-53M Pave Low IV used instead?
6. If so, how were they typically configured?
I'd like to model a Pave Low III that was used to infiltrate a US Army Special Forces A-Team into Afghanistan on 19 October 2001 or one that was used to extract Army Rangers who parachuted onto an airstrip south of Kandahar on the same night.