President Fords former mount NVH-3A returns to flight line

[chopper2004]

http://navalaviationnews.navylive.dodlive.mil/2017/08/31/familiar-face-returns-to-flight-line/

Images courtesy of NAVAIR

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[muermel]

Great looking machine, very sharp :-)

[500 Fan]

Is it fitted with Carson Blades or are they a newer design? Sharp-looking H-3.:ok:

500 Fan.

[Nicholas Howard]

They certainly look like Frank's finest, unless someone has been making a copy...

[Carbon Bootprint]

Nice machine, great story. I appreciate the post as these are fascinating helos.

On a side note (and apologizing for thread drift) when I was in Washington DC a few weeks ago I witnessed a DCFD Oshkosh ARFF foam truck (Foam Unit 2) on M Street, going "blues and twos", not something you normally see outside of an airport. After looking into it further, I learned that they indeed have two foam units, whose primary mission is to provide cover for the presidential helicopters (which itself is something to see, since they usually use three so no one except those who need to know are aware of which one POTUS is using). I'm not sure what that truck was doing that day, as we were a ways away from the White House (Navy Yard), but I suppose they come in handy for other things as well...

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