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Originally Posted by crustychief
We had a F model on USS Thomas C Hart FF-1092 for my first deployment.
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What year?
I know a lot of former H-2 pilots.
I am doing this from memory so I may get it wrong...any H-2 pilots can chime in
The H-2 had a very unique main rotor control mechanism, called, perhaps in jest, "flapperons".
See the picture below.
I circled one of the main rotor "flapperons" which are like traditional ailerons on fixed wing aircraft. The control rods went up through the main rotor mast and then out to each individual rotor flapperon.
I don't want to get into helo controls, but it is very unique.