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It's simply amazing to me how these machines are still operating and performing admirably, nearly 60 years after the first production model flew.

 

I see where Erickson have carried out 1,350 modifications to the S-64 - but despite that, the basic design still appears to be largely the original design.

 

Here's a CH-54 on the Kanga Pad at Nui Dat, in 1970, when I was still a young and virile lad, keeping the Communist menace at bay. That's 51 years ago!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-54_Tarhe

 

 

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Had a chat with one of the support crew at Essendon a few years ago. He took me out on the tarmac to get some photos. Told me the E model has a single wheel on the main u/c (see to front two in the last photo). The F model has dual wheels - rear airrcaft same photo.

 

F model

 

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(Edit: Ten years ago - 04/04/2011.)

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42 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

If it's one Elvis, is it two Elvii?

If the singular noun ends in –is, the plural ending is –es. So two or more would be elves. 

 

Of course the most famous firefighter named Elvis is Elvis Cridlington, a firefighter in Fireman Sam  image.thumb.jpeg.736d3c1484cd606febb836726d573ce6.jpeg

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