The UH-1B was an improved model that was equipped with the Lycoming T53-L-5 engine of 960 shp (716 kW), revised main rotor blades of 44 foot diameter and 21 inch chord, 13 inches higher rotor mast and a longer cabin that could accommodate seven passengers. Though most of the USAF machines are gone, the army expects to keep the Huey through the first decade of this century. When the new Huey Cobra appeared, a true Air Cavalry was born. The Huey later morphed into a gunship with multiple protrusions of guns and rocket pods added to protect and escort the unarmed troop-carrying 'slicks.'

More than 12,000 of all models were built and - on any given day, during its heyday in Vietnam - 2,000 could be in the air at once.ДЇrom 1962, when the first short-fuselage HU-1s arrived, to the later large-doored versions, they took on transport, utility and medevac or 'dustoff' missions. So unassuming is the humble Huey (never called 'Iroquois' by those who flew them) that its role as one of the major combat aircraft of the century is easily forgotten. Colonel Hal Moore, from the feature film 'We Were Soldiers' Dead, or alive, we all come home together. Hobby Master HH1001 US Army Bell UH-1B Huey Helicopter - 'Heavy Hog', 64-13978, Vietnam, 1966 (1:72 Scale) 'I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive, but this I swear: I will be the first one to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off.

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