{"id":16,"date":"2006-02-20T06:55:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-02-20T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T22:57:52","slug":"more-mysteries-about-helicopters-some-solved-some-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"More Mysteries About Helicopters: Some Solved, Some Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I posted a question on a Taiwanese military forum, asking what the addition to the tail of UH-1H 65-2101 (401) was (see the photo below).\u00a0 A netizen soon pointed out that\u00a0it was a positioning light for NVG.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"401 and 360 tails\" alt=\"401 and 360 tails\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/401_360_tail.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0That&#8217;s cool.\u00a0 But he asked me in turn what the &#8220;V&#8221;-shape marking on 63-2060 (360) meant.\u00a0 To tell the truth, I had not noticed the difference in their markings until he asked me.\u00a0 I checked other photos of UH-1H and found that some had the V marking and some did not.\u00a0 Does anybody know the answer?<\/p>\n<p>A friend sent me a photo of the aircraft identification plate of CH-47SD.\u00a0 It seemed that the CH-47SD acquition was not conducted as a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) but as a direct commercial sale, because there was no US Army serial number on the plate.\u00a0 With this photo, I could also identify Boeing&#8217;s serial numbers for the CH-47SD.\u00a0 Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taiwanairpower.org\/army\/ch47sd.html\" target=\"_blank\">CH-47SD<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I posted a question on a Taiwanese military forum, asking what the addition to the tail of UH-1H 65-2101 (401) was (see the photo below).\u00a0 A netizen soon pointed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}