Nautical Research Journal


holds on the fuselage, pitot tube, sliding door, access steps and landing gear braces.


It was at this point that I thought I had a major prob- lem with respect to the other helicopter. Test fi ts of that helicopter in its hangar bay revealed that the ro- tor assembly was taller than the hangar roof! Were the helicopters in the kit over scale? I had spent hours and hours on that fi rst helicopter, and this was quite a disturbing proposition. I consulted with my inter- net afi cionados and learned that in real life the he- licopter rotors are indeed taller than the roof of the hangar bay. However, the fl oor of the hangar drops down, and the helicopters are pushed forward— downhill, so to speak—until they are low enough for the hangar roofs to be closed. T us, in Figure 47 the helicopter looks out of scale—too tall—but this is only because it has not yet been lowered to fi t under- neath the hangar roof. So even though it looks odd, it is correct.


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Figure 49.


Having survived this conundrum, I moved on to what I hoped would be the fi nal embellishment to the model. Admiral Chabanenko bristles with whip antennas mounted in two places: forward, where the saluting guns are located, and aſt , in various loca- tions on the helicopter hangar structure. Armed with my reference photographs, I identifi ed where they all needed to go, and I built them. Using Aleen’s Tacky


Figure 50.


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