Huey radio/headset gear

It's kind of hard to accurately discribe but lacking a picture the pilots mike cords had a female plug at the end of the cord.  The cord was coiled in about 6in dia, squeezed together and wrapped 4 or 5 times ending with a half hitch of the end, the plug about even with the bottom.  It hung in the rear inside of the greenhouse where the hook was for the pilots helmets, usually made from a large adel clamp.  The gunner and crew cheifs cords usually snaked out the overhead soundproofing at the transmission bulkhead with about 4 ft of slack.  These cords had an approximately 2 1/2 in.square by 1 in. thick combination female plug and mic switch with the spring loaded clamp on one side.  Switch button perpendicular to the cord.  In the Reserve Medevac Unit we had longer cords so we could stand at the end of of the main rotor disc to keep vehicles back or people aware of the danger.  There were also floor mounted mic switches for all four of the crew.  When I get home I'll look for some pictures in my books or personal collection.  

Clear Left!

Mel

Have to agree with Mel, on those cords have another two years on him though.

ps: that is me in the photo more years ago then I care to remember sometimes

All the intercom cords on Hueys that I saw from 1970 to early 80's all had straight cords with the pilots ones being looped and wrapped a few turns to shorten them up.  I'll see if I can find a picture of them when I get home.  The curly ones were on the overhead map lights.   I spent 3 yrs RA and 7 Reserve as a Crew Chief.

Clear Left!

Mel

Has can be seen in this picture the cord hanging in the background is straight not coiled so check references when building or use either style

Bones,
This was about the best photo I have that might help you out. It's a Marine UH-1N, but the principle is the same. You can clearly see the pilot's ICS cord hanging down on the right side, and the co-pilot's is (a little less) visible on the left, too. The second cord you see coiled up over the pilot's head is for a map light.
Sorry you can't really see the attachment points, but the ICS cords plug into sockets that are pretty much at the aft end of the circuit breaker panel, on either side of it. Hope this helps.

OOPS  double post.

I hope this helps.

Here is what I did with my 1/32 Revell Huey D. This was done in 92 way before I had a PC, at the time I had the luck of having the 192nd Air Com near my home in north Seattle where they had Hooks and old Hueys still in opperation.  I built my huey as the bird flown in Nam by the Chief Warrent Officer who helped me with my project ....He was very surprised and impressed with the Helo.

He still had his old flight helmet on top of his file cabinet in his office....It said Seattle on the back so I asked him why the city on the helmet he told me " While fueling or getting loaded its rather noisey so crewmwn or other pilots would yell FAR OUT!! Tacoma! or Portland!" ...something like that.

Little Angel is his daughters name ( She was born while he was in action in Nam ) that bird lasted almost 23 missions before it whent down.