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                        "What-If" idea for the Trump Chinook!!

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                        oldhooker
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Piedmont Triad, NC (USA)
                        "What-If" idea for the Trump Chinook!!
                        Posted by oldhooker on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:03 PM



                        Hey, never hurts to wonder! Wink [;)]

                        Take care,
                        Frank

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                        HeavyArty
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:11 PM
                        Frank, you are not the only one who has broached the idea.

                        http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=163130&messageid=1127466913

                        I think we will see a conversion set for it. At least I hope so. It would be a great as a 1/35 model. Could detail it to the hilt.

                        Gino P. Quintiliani - Field Artillery - The KING of BATTLE!!!

                        Check out my Gallery: https://app.photobucket.com/u/HeavyArty

                        "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

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                        Papa-Echo-64
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                          February 2003
                        • From: Seattle
                        Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:11 PM


                        I would like to build one out of the box and one as Easy Money!

                        OH YEAH!!!! ....... even if Trumpeter does not supply the goodies needed for the 'Heavy' versions......wouldn't a lot of stuff from the 1/35 MRC Hueys work?

                        So much already out there in 1/35 ......man is this going to be cool or what! Tongue [:P]
                        Straighten up and fly right.....
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                        HeavyArty
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:15 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Papa-Echo-64

                        OH YEAH!!!! ....... even if Trumpeter does not supply the goodies needed for the 'Heavy' versions......wouldn't a lot of stuff from the 1/35 MRC Hueys work?

                        So much already out there in 1/35 ......man is this going to be cool or what! Tongue [:P]


                        You got it. Could also use a bunch of the Academy MH-60L/G parts to make a modern MH-47 as well. The possibilities are pretty much endless. Can't wait for them to hit the shelves. The Christmas list is growing.

                        Gino P. Quintiliani - Field Artillery - The KING of BATTLE!!!

                        Check out my Gallery: https://app.photobucket.com/u/HeavyArty

                        "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

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                        Trigger
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                          February 2004
                        • From: Moooooon River!
                        Posted by Trigger on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:16 PM
                        OT - Hey Frank, check this out: http://www.x-plane.org/registry/6865.shtml

                        BOT - 1/35 ACH-47??? Hmmmm... those long term plans for a big MH-47 just might have to be scraped.
                        ------------------------------------------------------------------ - Grant "Can't let that nest in there..."
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                        HeavyArty
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, September 23, 2005 1:32 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Trigger74
                        1/35 ACH-47??? Hmmmm... those long term plans for a big MH-47 just might have to be scraped.


                        Grant, don't scrap your MH-47...build one of each!!!

                        Gino P. Quintiliani - Field Artillery - The KING of BATTLE!!!

                        Check out my Gallery: https://app.photobucket.com/u/HeavyArty

                        "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

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                        Trigger
                        • Member since
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                        • From: Moooooon River!
                        Posted by Trigger on Friday, September 23, 2005 2:07 PM
                        LOL!!!!! Well, I'll just have to see what the 2006 Fiscal Budget allows for! Wink [;)]

                        On the other hand, I have more than plenty of hanger space these days...Evil [}:)]
                        ------------------------------------------------------------------ - Grant "Can't let that nest in there..."
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                        oldhooker
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Piedmont Triad, NC (USA)
                        Posted by oldhooker on Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:36 AM
                        Thanks fellas... it is always interesting to see the technological advance in graphic rich programs... and the different idea's such programs spawn! Smile [:)]

                        CLICK-->http://gunsagogo.org/0002/0002/lateNam/Steve1968.jpg<--CLICK
                        Steve Carr, co-pilot on the late "Birth Control", stands by "Easy Money" as she gets patched up from the wounds she suffered in the rice paddies outside the Citadel, 23 Feb 68. "Easy" took 128 hits that day while going in to rescue the crew of the downed gunship, and managed to evade with all souls on board, thanks to two Heavy Hogs of the 1/9th that made the NVA get quite while the rescue was taking place!

                        One of the pastimes that evolved during the Reunions, is counting/recalling bullet hole patches in 149's fuselage as she sits on display. Smile [:)]


                        Take care,
                        Frank

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                        Awood23
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                          May 2003
                        • From: Belgium
                        Posted by Awood23 on Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:49 PM
                        just had an oddball idea... take your gunship and add a ball turrent from a B-17/24 ?
                        [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Awood23/DarkSideBadge.jpg "your' not trying if your not cheating" "no one ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other poor bugger die for his" 'never before have so many owed so much to so few" 1/48 Spitfire %80
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                        HeavyArty
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Valrico, FL
                        Posted by HeavyArty on Sunday, September 25, 2005 1:42 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Awood23

                        just had an oddball idea... take your gunship and add a ball turrent from a B-17/24 ?


                        Why???

                        The ACH-47A was an actual gunship version used in Vietnam, not some what-if project. We are talking about making another version from the Trumpter Chinook, not some sci-fi crap.

                        The "what-if" part is making it a modern ACH-47D gunship and resurecting the Guns-a-Go-Go unit.

                        Gino P. Quintiliani - Field Artillery - The KING of BATTLE!!!

                        Check out my Gallery: https://app.photobucket.com/u/HeavyArty

                        "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell

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                        Awood23
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                          May 2003
                        • From: Belgium
                        Posted by Awood23 on Monday, September 26, 2005 5:13 AM
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                        Why???



                        I know the Vietnam era gunships were real but if your going to put something into use today who says there isnt room for improvement? The D model is an improved airframe over the A model right? whos says you cant change the Weaponry or placement? Im not saying use an actuall ball turrent from one of those aircraft but something along those lines... Im thinking that with all that forward and side firing fire power that in a slow moving or hover position that the undersides of Chinook makes a large vulnerable target. I know it will never happen, thats why I called it an "oddball idea"
                        [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/Awood23/DarkSideBadge.jpg "your' not trying if your not cheating" "no one ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other poor bugger die for his" 'never before have so many owed so much to so few" 1/48 Spitfire %80
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