CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter passenger door

Domenick

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Need help with a detail for my latest project.

A Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion features in the story and I need the 8 passengers to exit through the front right-side passenger door, as the rear half (and ramp) is blocked by a pickup truck. This side door can also be used for a gunnery station, but in this instance it is not. From photos, I can see it is a two-section door, top and bottom, and such a door is only on the right side. I can also see the top portion lifts inward and upward against the overhead.

There is an injured man who can not negotiate around the pickup. I'd prefer not to have to offload the pickup then reload, but that's my fallback.

I can find many interior and exterior images but not a one with the bottom section open. From interior shots, it does not seem to be a flop-down ramp, though that's what I'm hoping. The CH-53 has gone through many variants and I'm hoping two things,
1. The bottom section actually does somehow open at least in some variants.
2. If the bottom does open, how?

Thanks. Anyone with a definitive answer will get an acknowledgment.
 
Looks like the bottom section of the door swings forward and remains internal to the fuselage, from the couple of photos I could find online. Doesn't appear that there are permanently mounted steps, but rather a quick insert set for after the door is opened.
 
I appreciate the attention to accuracy. The number of people who would notice even if it wasn't must be infantile.
 
One gets a good perspective on just how large a CH-53 is by spotting the mechanic on top. The refueling probe is huge, much bigger than I expected.
 
Thanks to all, particularly, Lindberg, Craig, and AV8R_87. I knew this was the place.
Lindberg, your profile is locked down. DM or email me.

Dave Theisen said:
I only came here because I was hoping you had one for sale to hang in my man cave. :)
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Dude, you've got a big cave.

Racerx said:
I appreciate the attention to accuracy. The number of people who would notice even if it wasn't must be infantile.
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It's an affliction as a result of my scientific training. I can't seem to publish something if I'm not 90% sure of its accuracy. I do spend a lot of time researching. One reason there is so much time between books. This particular fact will likely appear in a single sentence, maybe two.
 
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I, too, appreciate the attention to accuracy. Inaccuracies in books are distracting, drawing my attention away from the story.

A while back I was reading a mystery story where a character, one of the suspects, made a statement about having carburetor trouble with his car. Knowing that car to be fuel injected, I thought “Aha! He’s lying! Must be a clue!” Nope, just a clueless author. The same author had a gun checked against a registry in a state that doesn’t register guns, and had a wooden box being assembled with a lathe. At that point I gave up.

Very annoying.
 
I walked in to GF watching one of those "almost end of the world unless we do some weird thing" movies, where the heroine learned how to fly a Russian helicopter by talking to someone on the radio, and then flew it down a giant hole in the ground, in the span of about 10 minutes. I had to leave the area.
 
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