Exposed Stealth Helo?

[EskimoJoe]

A pic I found while searching for similar rotor designs.

[Jayhawk]

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another thing is you believe SF guys dont know how to hide their tracks, wouldn't be any thing left of the airframe.

Judging from the article, and the pictures; I believe this part of the helicopter landed on the other side of the compound wall.

[BlueJ1]

Vudu, they drew that picture wrong. If you look in the real photos the paddles are on the correct side.

And the foot pegs were what I knew was wrong. Thankyou, it was driving me nuts.

The stab dosnt make sense to me. The sides are flat. Also dont believe it to be swept forward. Vudu, do yalls have lockpins that enable the stab to be folded up?

[Vudu15]

on the lock pins No I'm in the army the Spec Ops guys and the Navy use those everyday hawk doesn't getem. at least A/L Models.
It just doesn't make sense to me, the main part of the airframe burned up pretty much in place but the tail flew over a wall...
and in one shot the driveshafts are all still connected to each other by what I would assume to be the viscous dampers. but the kicker with that is IF those shafts had hit anything they would be destroyed.
too many things that dont add up to me.

[Jayhawk]

on the lock pins No I'm in the army the Spec Ops guys and the Navy use those everyday hawk doesn't getem. at least A/L Models.
It just doesn't make sense to me, the main part of the airframe burned up pretty much in place but the tail flew over a wall...
and in one shot the driveshafts are all still connected to each other by what I would assume to be the viscous dampers. but the kicker with that is IF those shafts had hit anything they would be destroyed.
too many things that dont add up to me.

I just feel like you don't know enough to decide there is something suspicious going on.  We've simply seen a few pictures and snippets of information, it just doesn't seem like enough information to me to be making assumptions.

[BlueJ1]

on the lock pins No I'm in the army the Spec Ops guys and the Navy use those everyday hawk doesn't getem. at least A/L Models.
It just doesn't make sense to me, the main part of the airframe burned up pretty much in place but the tail flew over a wall...
and in one shot the driveshafts are all still connected to each other by what I would assume to be the viscous dampers. but the kicker with that is IF those shafts had hit anything they would be destroyed.
too many things that dont add up to me.

Agreed. Put a hole in a #3 drive shaft once with a speedhandle and apex tip. Was pretty proud of myself. Until I realized that I just put a hole in the drive shaft...

[BlueJ1]

See Rule #14

[Twister2]

looks to me like it broke it's tale off on the wall main body on one side tail on the other. Thermited the side they could get to and had to leave the rest. I am pretty much an expert because I played a video game once that had a helicopter in it. Oh and I used to dump handfulls of quarters in steel talons when I was younger.

[BlueJ1]

looks to me like it broke it's tale off on the wall main body on one side tail on the other. Thermited the side they could get to and had to leave the rest. I am pretty much an expert because I played a video game once that had a helicopter in it. Oh and I used to dump handfulls of quarters in steel talons when I was younger.

 

[Vudu15]

I just feel like you don't know enough to decide there is something suspicious going on.  We've simply seen a few pictures and snippets of information, it just doesn't seem like enough information to me to be making assumptions.

well I only see and fly on em everyday and have pilots who I talk to often who used to be SF and Spec Ops so I might have just a very small hole to look through.....
I just sayin it seems real funny to me that a "stealth" a/c appears over night on a ridiculous mission that could have been done several years ago and it is a whole new design that no one has heard of.
yea call me crazy but I think its BS, and who still has the date that appears on their Pictures??? aint seen that ina bit.

[wojo71]

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopter-was-secret-stealth-black-hawk-050411/
pretty good write up .

[Jayhawk]

well I only see and fly on em everyday and have pilots who I talk to often who used to be SF and Spec Ops so I might have just a very small hole to look through.....
I just sayin it seems real funny to me that a "stealth" a/c appears over night on a ridiculous mission that could have been done several years ago and it is a whole new design that no one has heard of.
yea call me crazy but I think its BS, and who still has the date that appears on their Pictures??? aint seen that ina bit.

Really?  The fact that there is a date on the pictures is part of your theory?  Really?

As for the the other part; "I just sayin it seems real funny to me that a "stealth" a/c appears over night on a ridiculous mission that could have been done several years ago and it is a whole new design that no one has heard of."

I'm not sure what you're saying actually, care to clarify?

[EskimoJoe]

As for the the other part; "I just sayin it seems real funny to me that a "stealth" a/c appears over night on a ridiculous mission that could have been done several years ago and it is a whole new design that no one has heard of."

I'm not sure what you're saying actually, care to clarify?

I don't know about you, but if it were my new top secret multi million dollar
aircraft, I wouldn't want to fly it directly into a situation where it could be lost.

[Jayhawk]

I don't know about you, but if it were my new top secret multi million dollar
aircraft, I wouldn't want to fly it directly into a situation where it could be lost.

How do we know it's new?

Isn't that the point of these aircraft and these teams, to go into high risk situations?  You also don't want to lose a highly skilled and highly trained member of a SEAL team, so why didn't they send in mall security guards in VW vans?

[Vudu15]

No the date is not part of my "theory"

as for the other part we've had at least 2 times to get him that I know of but we best leave that alone before Skuzzy gets us.

But generally you hear of prototype a/c long before they every get out to do a mission. why is this one different? There is just something wrong with it.

Your normal SOP for this type of thing would have dealt with the problem. hell had airframes that couldn't be recovered shot with hellfires from Apaches (extreme case) but I'm sayin if they saw that piece they would have got it too.
Just seems like a whole lot of thing that dont add up. and untested airframe on a high profile mission only a piece of it left what were they ina hurry for? to bury the body (wouldn't be running from the Pakistanis).