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Post by aponderer on Dec 17, 2014 7:35:55 GMT -5
Pepsi's halftime commercial showing Blake Shelton flying to the USS Lexington starts out with a Huey helicopter, and nearing the ship, the helicopter shown briefly looks to me like a four-bladed Jet Ranger (OH-58 Kiowa?), which is definitely not the Huey, then switches back to the Huey, and just prior to landing, it shows the Jet Ranger very briefly, then shows the Huey at the landing. The Jet Ranger is shown so very briefly that I had to replay the switcheroo a few times to make sure I wasn't just imagining it. One telltale clue is the Huey's vertical stabilizer does not extend below the tailboom, but the one on the switcheroo does extend noticeably below the tailboom. |
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Post by oscar on Dec 17, 2014 7:53:57 GMT -5
nothing on tv is real, not a show claiming to be reality, not even the news at times. tv has fallen and it won't get up.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Dec 17, 2014 19:46:59 GMT -5
I shall have to look for that if I see that commercial.
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Post by shutout on Dec 17, 2014 20:52:28 GMT -5
nothing on tv is real, not and show claiming to be reality, not even the news at times. tv has fallen and it won't get up. Great post. |
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Post by aponderer on Dec 17, 2014 21:21:35 GMT -5
I shall have to look for that if I see that commercial. You can see it at the link in my OP. (but it helps if you have a good streaming connection) BTW the earlier OH-58 helicopters had two-bladed rotors. The one in the commercial appears to be four-bladed (unless it's a "strobe effect" of the video and the spinning rotor blades--like the wagon wheels in the old westerns appearing to be turning backwards when the wagon was going forward when chased by the villains)... |
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Post by exgi on Dec 18, 2014 7:24:43 GMT -5
I don't believe the Kiowa had the stabilizer extending below the tail boom. I think that is a Jet Ranger painted Army green. If memory (and research  ) holds, the only active Army bird with a tail boom like that is the AH-64 Apache. |
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Post by aponderer on Dec 18, 2014 9:58:40 GMT -5
I don't believe the Kiowa had the stabilizer extending below the tail boom. I think that is a Jet Ranger painted Army green. If memory (and research ) holds, the only active Army bird with a tail boom like that is the AH-64 Apache. Well, that "fake Huey" certainly is no AH-64. Here's a pic of a two-bladed OH-58 (C model, I think):  |
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) holds, the only active Army bird with a tail boom like that is the AH-64 Apache.