So, my family just moved to Maryland and my dad works at PAX River NAS. So anyway…one of his friends works on the RQ-4 Global Hawk. SO, we got to see that (pretty cool by itself). But then, on the way out, we walked (and stopped) in the maintence hangar for the Navy/Marine helicopters. THere were 2 AH-1 (Ws?) a BIG (duh) CH-53 and they were pulling all the panels off and the rotor housing was off so you could see all the “plumbing” AND there was a SH-60…
And when we were driving out, an AH-1 took off and flew over at about 100ft.
That was fun,
David
Sorry, no pictures on a military installation.
Pretty neat to see the stuff up close and personal, isn’t it? Especially when you can feel the beat of the Cobra’s rotor blades…
That would be an awesome experience.
It would make me want to go home and whip a model together. [:D]
Mike
That was the first thing I said when it went over “STOP THE CAR AND ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS!” You could feel the beat of it… great recruiting tool![:)]
Then of course you have F-18s, P-3s, and C-130s taking off too…
AND, since I am under 18, I got to go on “bring your kid to work day tour” and got to climb around the VX-20 planes (C-130, P-3, C-2, E-2, and the RQ-4 UAV), and the V-22 squadron planes.
One of the cool little trivia things (although not really relevent) was that the C-130 airframe was from 1962…pretty old (no offense to the older memebers of this forum)…especially for an airplane.