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A question about Medevac Huey's in Vietnam ?

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  • Member since
    September 2003
  • From: Australia
Posted by Helo H-34 on Sunday, December 28, 2008 11:57 PM

WOW thanks Gino for the link on your Medevac Huey ; That's exactly what I was thinking of building . I added the link to "My Favourites" on the computer .

                                            Thank's again Gino Thumbs Up [tup]

                                          Kind regards John.

P.S. Does UH-1V stand for Medevac Huey ?

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    December 2002
  • From: Valrico, FL
Posted by HeavyArty on Sunday, December 28, 2008 10:58 PM

For a Vietnam (or later) UH-1H or V MedEvac bird, the stretchers should go 3 across the cabin.  The two crew chief seats should face the rear as well, directly behind the pilots seats.  The 6 stretcher setup is for an air ambulance used to transport stable patients between medical centers and such, not battlefield MedEvac. 

You can check out a 1/35 UH-1H MedEac that I built for a customer here.

Good luck.

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

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  • Member since
    September 2003
  • From: Australia
Posted by Helo H-34 on Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:49 PM

Hi Rob , thank's for the help ; I probably didn't phrase my question very well . I did realise that Revell give me the option of troop seats or stretchers ; It's just the position of the stretchers in the instructions . A few pic's I've seen so far on the internet seem to show only two or three stretchers installed . So I'm not sure which way the stretchers should go , [three across or three down each side of the cabin ] ???

                                                   Kind regards John

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    December 2005
  • From: DSM, Iowa
Posted by viper_mp on Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:11 PM

Steps 9 & 10 are for a standard troop transport huey.

Steps 11 12 13 are for the medavac version.  The two side facing seats do not get installed with the stretchers.  Nor do the bench seats.  For the medevac, just use the bottom three steps.  

Rob Folden

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  • Member since
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  • From: Australia
A question about Medevac Huey's in Vietnam ?
Posted by Helo H-34 on Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:05 PM

Hi everyone , I have three 1/72 UH-1D Huey's on the bench at the moment , two of them are Italeri kits which I have decided to build as RAAF "Bushranger" Huey's ,the other is a Revell UH-1D which has some nice stetchers included in the kit .

The pic I posted shows the cabin seating arrangement options for the Revell Huey . If I wanted to build my Revell Huey as a Medevac from the vietnam war , should the two single seats be facing to the rear [not sideways behind the pilots] and should the stretchers go sideways across the cabin and then install the two small seats at the very rear of the cabin ???

I appreciate any assistance and advice on my current project .

                                             Kind regards John

 

 

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