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Old 21st Aug 2019, 00:12
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JohnDixson
 
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Roscoe, you would be right on point, except for some history that I don’t think had wide knowledge. Before we worked on the UH-50M, there was a project to provide an upgraded S-70 to Turkey and it was called at the time, the S-70i. It was, shall I say, more than a little embarrassing to be delivering those ships which were far, far better equipped than the US Army’s UH-60L’s, to a non-US military customer. That situation didn’t last all that long as the M model came along rapidly. But, for the purposes of this discussion, I suppose that it may be argued that the S-70i configuration is a US military model. Stretching it a bit, but mostly correct.

Having said that, and back to the Timberline configuration, an A model with 701D engines, to my knowledge, anyway, is one that we never made. Whether an outfit like the TF-160 did it is another question.
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