Hotenplotz
Your photo is a recent one from beautiful downtown Bagdhad. That would be the AH-1W used by the Marines. Its still the same old airframe that has gone through many changes. The Army always used single engine whereas the Navy/Marine Corps for obvious reasons had two. The Marine Corps has done well and are now getting a newer version of the Cobra with four blades. It must be really sweet.
As Nick also didnt mention when he was flying the Cobra, consider it was a closed cockpit and the first ones in Vietnam had no Air Conditioner. Extremely hot. Later models had what was called an ECU (Enviornmental Control Unit) which took bleed air and cooled it down enough that it spit ice..............So Nice. Also as it was a Bell product you could take full fuel or full ordinance but you couldnt take both. The Apache solved that.....