FIGHTS ON Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Just been aboard USS MAKIN ISLAND on a hot sunny day, I have about 30 phots of CH-53Es, MV-22s, AV-8B+s that I was able to take without being arrested! - Advice please on which Thread to post? All sitting on my Photobucket, I can put them in the "walk around" section if that is deemed best? I promised someone on the work-in-progress some interier CH-53E phots, so I'll post a reply there and include a link to the walk around posts. No copyright, please ALL feel to use as required. If there is a better place to post, please advise (and sorry for the Armour fans, filthy, dusty close ups on a USMC MEU vehicles really didn't do it for me with the crappy upload speed from here in Bahrain, it will take me a while to construct he various threads, so please bare with me as I type/upload away. Happy for forum staff to delete this thread if required, other wise I'll edit later with a hyper link. Finally, hope you poor ******s are enjoying the snow back in the UK, sadly only in the lower 20's out here today 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Here is a taster of what I got today, I'll happily delete these when I can get a "walk - around" thread up & running (just awaiting a reply from administrators) - in meantime, I think if you click on image, you can access my photobucket library and have a look yourselves - again no copyright, but please don't publish phots of me (or others) in military uniforms ( my mother-in-law still doesn't know her daughter married a sailor!) Dark Grey - there was a lightgrey one as well 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FIGHTS ON Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 V-22 wing fold: underside at rear shows interior green or black. Some V-22s have flaps drooped when folded, others not. Canopy glass is gold tinted. Interior of cabin as cluttered as the old workhorse CH-46E - with slightly less space!. AV-8B+s general fit 2 x drop tanks on outboard pylons and a Sniper pod centreline. No AH-1Z or -1Y (Venoms & ???) carried, but several Navy MH-60S's. (this V-22 on XtraDecal sheet) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 V-22 interiorV-22 main wheel (and "no" I was not gonna crawl under the beast for a better phot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Some CH-53E engine bay phots Harrier with VMM-163 badge one for all the Joint Force Harrier maintainers (& their Sea Harriers mates before them) - chatted to a young Marine struggling with the Pegasus engine maintenance, wing off, etc etc), struggling in the humid heat of working narrow spaces in the Hangar........got to ask yourself do you really miss the working the Harrier out in the Gulf??(or Helmand) don't think they call it the "Grave Yard" as we once did 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Final ones for now: MH-60S sqn badge and if Hovercraft is your thing 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon382 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Some amazing pics, thanks. Can't believe you prefer sunny and warm to grey, wet and b****y freezing????? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 Shark 64 - for you, forgot to take some good MH-60S photos, but this one should zoom in if it helps with tail rotor fold and blade supports. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 (edited) yep thats like the whole fleet air arm on one gash barge nice pic of the oil cooler matrix too.....one for the filthy grubbers lol Edited January 21, 2017 by junglierating extra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudge Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Missed these. Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 On 14/01/2017 at 3:08 PM, FIGHTS ON said: Just been aboard USS MAKIN ISLAND on a hot sunny day, I have about 30 phots of CH-53Es, MV-22s, AV-8B+s that I was able to take without being arrested! - Advice please on which Thread to post? All sitting on my Photobucket, I can put them in the "walk around" section if that is deemed best? I promised someone on the work-in-progress some interier CH-53E phots, so I'll post a reply there and include a link to the walk around posts. No copyright, please ALL feel to use as required. If there is a better place to post, please advise (and sorry for the Armour fans, filthy, dusty close ups on a USMC MEU vehicles really didn't do it for me with the crappy upload speed from here in Bahrain, it will take me a while to construct he various threads, so please bare with me as I type/upload away. Happy for forum staff to delete this thread if required, other wise I'll edit later with a hyper link. Finally, hope you poor ******s are enjoying the snow back in the UK, sadly only in the lower 20's out here today Yeah love it Arctic trained me.....were you in that divisions pic in the dockyard dandy btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latinbear Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Fantastic shots and thanks for posting these. One thing I've learned - not that I've ever thought about it - is that the wings on the Osprey swivel in line with the fuselage to save space. This is the first time I've seen shots of the aircraft in this configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted April 13, 2018 Author Share Posted April 13, 2018 12 hours ago, junglierating said: Yeah love it Arctic trained me.....were you in that divisions pic in the dockyard dandy btw? No - thank goodness. After 32 years service in the Andrew, by not being a WAFU, WRN or doing winter sports has allowed me to NEVER get published in the Dandy. (that or there is some local bylaw that prevents someone as handsome as myself appearing in print?). These phots are from Jan 2017, just behind the Maklin Island is the new HMS Jafair being built. Apart from my early years on Intrepid in Northern Norway, I've avoided the cold, but not 3 weeks after getting back from the sweltering Gulf, I ended up in the snow in Estonia..... 57 minutes ago, Latinbear said: Fantastic shots and thanks for posting these. One thing I've learned - not that I've ever thought about it - is that the wings on the Osprey swivel in line with the fuselage to save space. This is the first time I've seen shots of the aircraft in this configuration. I've tried doing that RidgeRunners CAG Osprey using the Xtradecal sheet. Sadly the 1/48 Italeri V-22 is just a crap kit with humps & bulges all in the wrong place. I've folded the blades, but NOT the main wing. My pictures show that the underside of the "workings" can be either Black or airframe green. With JSDF using the -22 and so many USMC machines in the Far East, I'm sure Kinetic will release one someday in this decent scale. note that these were uploaded to photobucket. At some point I'll move them across to FLICKR and edit these posts, but JULIEN has already kindly put these into the walk around section, under the various AV-8, V-22 sections 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Hello, Thanks for sharing these excellent pictures with us. very much appreciated. Regards, Orion / The Netherlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossington 2 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Thank You. The best view of a late Harrier's vortex generators I have found so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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