S-70 = MH 60 ?

S-70 = Sikorsky company designation for the Blackhawk/Seahawk helicopter

MH/SH/UH-60 = US military designation for Blackhawk/Seahawk helicopter

Most Blackhawk/Seahawk helicopters sold by Sikorsky directly to foreign customers carry the S-70 designation, while those sold via the US government Foreign Military Sales route carry the MH/SH/UH-60 designation.

Thanks for the question

Tom

Thanks for the info… my knowledge has increased.

http://www.cradleofaviation.org/general_info/generalf.html

The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in East Garden City, New York on Long Island to commemorate Long Island’s part in the history of aviation. It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. In fact, so many seminal flights occurred in the area, that by the mid-1920s the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the “Cradle of Aviation”, the origin of the museum’s name

Look at the aircraft on display (click on a time period, then look on the right side of the screen).

If there are any there you just have to see…
http://www.cradleofaviation.org/exhibits/index.html

http://www.americanairpowermuseum.org/Website/Index.aspx

The American Airpower Museum, is an aviation museum located on the former site of Republic Aviation at Republic Airport in East Farmingdale, New York. It maintains a collection of aviation artifacts and an array of aircraft spanning the many years of the aircraft factory’s history.

The museum is one of relatively few worldwide that actually flies historic aircraft, in addition to its static display aircraft, vehicles, and other exhibits. It operates an original Republic P-47D fighter among others in its airworthy fleet.

http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/

The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is a museum of World War I aircraft and antique automobiles that is located in Red Hook, New York, USA.

https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/opdm/aviation/museums

Counting the aircraft listed on the ADF serials site, I get 45 total airframes delivered to the RAAF (including 1 non-flying airframe for training {63-9768; A1-93} and 1 for complete fatigue/corrosion teardown inspection {67-0106; A1-151}).

As the last resulted in a pile of parts (the operative term being “complete teardown”), there would be 23 airframes remaining (45 – 1 reduced to components – 8 crashed – 6 already preserved – 7 to be preserved = 23)… exactly the number being buried.

Of course, if the Italians had convinced you guys that they could easily fit that gun (and improve the “H&H” capacity), both you & the Turks would have the same attack helo.

The 727 part derives from USN studies in the early 1960s on the feasibility of using a supercarrier for emergency landing of a crippled airliner at sea.

It was determined that the short-body models of 727 were the largest jet with any possibility of succeeding.

1966, summer.

The summer I turned 5, standing in the yard of our house north-west of Reno, Nv., looking up at the white lines in the sky, and learning they were made by “big flying cars, carrying people to distant places (that explanation may have come earlier, I’m not sure..

Definitely that summer, learning that those booms were made by military planes flying faster than sound.

And again that year or later, visiting my mother’s brother in Denver, Colorado… he lived a few blocks from Stapelton International Airport (at that time Colorado’s largest airport). Watching the jets take off & land.