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General => Lounge => Topic started by: DerikWayne on March 22, 2006, 03:30:56 PM

Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: DerikWayne on March 22, 2006, 03:30:56 PM
Check out what some of our boys overseas did to their helicopter.
 
The story is, this very special Mi-24 helicopter is presently flying in Afghanistan, where it is no doubt causing quite a stir.  God Bless the U.S.A.
Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: JeremyB on March 22, 2006, 03:32:42 PM
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/eaglecopter.asp

The Hind isn't American.
Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: Funky Cricket on March 22, 2006, 03:54:52 PM
sweet paint job and jeremy, your link bumped or corp. firewall... so i can't view pic, who's is it?
Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: DerikWayne on March 22, 2006, 04:06:44 PM
hmmmm, that is an interesting link indeed
Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: baxo on March 22, 2006, 04:45:38 PM
God Bless Hungary!
Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: jkirchman on March 22, 2006, 05:05:34 PM
I wonder how snopes finds this stuff out...

God bless Hungary indeed...
Title: Paint job on a helicopter
Post by: JeremyB on March 22, 2006, 05:26:07 PM
Quote from: Funky Cricket
sweet paint job and jeremy, your link bumped or corp. firewall... so i can't view pic, who's is it?


Quote from: Snopes
Origins:  Common as it may be to assume that any neat-o piece of military hardware must be American — especially when it's painted to look like the same type of bird that serves as the U.S. national symbol — the helicopter shown here is not American, nor has it been used by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The type of helicopter shown in these images is the Mi-24 Hind; the unusually-decorated version pictured here belonged to the Hungarian Air Force and was evidently painted with the eagle design by one of its crew members. The craft was not used in military operations and carried no armaments; it was strictly a display vehicle exhibited at air shows and the like. As far as we have been able to determine, the helicopter has since been decommissioned and no longer exists.

Last updated:  25 August 2004

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