[MichaelS]

Originally Posted by lfuente

I've gotten a lot of mileage from the Alouette III recolor despite it being the only Philippine example, as it was the ride of a notorious millionaire playboy.

Appointed by Ferdinand Marcos as the Presidential Assistant on National Minorities (PANAMIN), the guy conveniently turns up a stone age tribe in the trackless jungles of Mindanao around 1971 then proceeds to rock the world of anthropology. He stage manages the entire thing with full control over publicity, but suddenly decides to cut off all access to the 'primitives', but not before enough footage is shot for a later PBS special. There's a number of shots with his personal Alouette flying around.

Around 1982 he crosses Imelda Marcos and flees the country with a harem of tribeswomen, with German journalists breaking the story that everything was a hoax. It was later confirmed that 'stone age cave dwellers' was a wild exaggeration.

But before this farcical end, the PANAMIN Foundation acquired a Hughes 500C, but with only partial photos coloring and registry codes are educated guesses.

So go build the choppers, then feel free to discover your own lost tribe on paper (pun intended)! Google 'Tasaday' for the PBS video.

Now THAT would make a great reality TV show! Way better than Honey Boo Boo!

For those of you lucky enough to not be able to get US TV:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Honey_Boo_Boo