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    Someone stayed up really late one night designing that mess...

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    I used to see these parked on the airfield at Fort Benning after they were brought back from Vietnam. They are heavy-lifting beasts. Today all we have for heavy-lift is the CH-47 Chinooks however, the Army is looking at updating the Skycrane.

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    The Skycrane is still used around here to install ski lift towers...

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    Skycranes were used to fight the recent Bighorn Fire that burned nearly 120,000 acres near Tucson.

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    I live in Canberra, Australia and while you blokes are in winter we contract a couple of sky canes to help combat our summer bush fires.

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    More parts than a Chinook, that’s for sure, even tho' the fwd and rear rotor systems on a Chinook were almost the same; just rotated opposite
    Saw a Skycrane at Can Tho in ‘69. Impressive machine. Could carry “pods”; for instance used for coms, medical units, cargo of all types.
    On lifting a load the pilot turned control over to the 3rd crew- member (typically an E6) that sat facing the rear in the back of the pod.
    He operated the flight controls to hover over and pick up the load.



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