Good questions, still no answers…
So lets get this right…
Your writing a book about an event you don’t want to disclose (you mention 1983) but claim it will be a big event when made public.
Correct.
That features a helicopter (Black with no markings) of a type that you don’t know the name of or the designation for.
Not so fast… I know what type it is. Of the H53 sikorsky class but currently I have never been able to find THIS type of variant helicopter, read the original post if unsure what I am getting at. (i.e. a backdoor and a back ramp)
Research for this book includes asking forum goers to do your research for you by identifying the helicopter from a vague description … not to mention asking for someone to photoshop such a design..
Wrong. I already did the research and I have yet to find out the variant that matches my description. Instead of believing my research is definitive I would like to ask publicly if anyone has come across the class variant I’m looking for maybe there is a prototype picture somewhere, maybe a person that worked on designing this variant class H53 comes here, maybe a FELLOW spec ops soldier could help by hinting something… anything! That is why im posting here.
…. Just out of curiosity had somone on here identified what you were after, would they or the fact the information came from this forum be mentioned in the book or would you sit back and claim to have done all the research yourself?
Actually they have come very close, the H53K class seems large enough but it still lacks a back ramp and backdoor both on the same helicopter, respectively. If you find a picture or get me the proper nomenclature and wish to be included in my book I will honor your request. This blog already to some very minor degree has relevance to the book… the helicopter has yet to be found. So until the helicopter is found the topic for this might as well go like this, “I used internet resources such as a Blog to try to find this mystery helicopter but to no avail the design was never verified.”
I don’t mean for this to come across as an attack on you, I simply find way this thread has evolved curious to say the least.
No offense taken, thanks for your question. Also the photoshop picture is needed to help me find this helicopter because if you didn’t notice by the early posts, and some of the later posts… the choice of helicopters are all wrong. The photoshop is more for a WANTED POSTER: ‘Have you ever seen this helicopter? If so please contact me!’
Don’t bother with searching for a picture as there aren’t any conventional helicopters with a full-length fuselage. Something called physics (center of gravity, momentum of the tail rotor, stuff like that) makes this claim utter rubbish.
If you have some article to back this claim I would be very much interested in looking at it. (Preferably an article taken from something that clearly validates your point and includes the word helicopter in it rather then trying to impress us all with the word physics, gravity, momentum and tail rotor. We need not degrade this into a chinook arguement!)
And let me add the “fourth” landing gear. Why would anyone put a fourth one to an existing design ? doing so would mean a much higher overall weight, that the engines wouldn’t be able to lift anyway.
No offense but how would a fourth wheel hardly prevent the helicopter from being able to lift? (Or is it possible that it was not meant for that purpose?) The fourth wheel might be removable if a lift is needed possibly? The only reason I suspect the fourth wheel is needed is because this helicopter was very long and needs protection for the rear? I don’t know thats why I am here asking if anyone else knows.
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