#Piasecki H-21

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A "Vought OS2U Kingfisher is salvaged by a Royal Canadian air force Piasecki H-21 helicopter in the spring of 1964. It had remained on the slopes of Mount Buxton, Calvert Island, British Columbia, since it crashed there on August 20, 1942. After reconstruction by the Vought Aeronautics' quarter century club, the OS2U was placed on display aboard Battleship North Carolina at Wilmington, North Carolina, and was dedicated on June 25, 1971."

Date: Spring 1964

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 73761

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Piasecki H-21 Shawnee

Crew:  3–5 (Pilot, co-pilot, crew chief and one or two gunners

Powerplant: 1 x Wright-1820-103 Cyclone 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine

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Kingsman Aircraft Inventory: 

Helicopters:

Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey’ 

Westland Lynx UH-14A 

Piasecki H-21

AgustaWestland AW101

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

Eurocopter AS365N3 Dauphin 2

Large Aircraft:

Canadair CL600-1A11 Challenger (Private jet)

Lockheed Constellation

Lockheed C-130 Hercules (Military Transport Carrier)

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod

Boeing 737

Propeller Planes: 

Short SC.7 Skyvan 3 Variant 100 (Training)

Hawker Sea Fury T20 (Fighter)

Military Jets:

English Electric/BAC Lightning 

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor 

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All these flying machines are so cool. Most of them are based on a Gee Bee Model Z, a Fokker Dr.I, a Beechcraft G17, a LTV A-7 Corsair II, a SEPECAT Jaguar, a Vought F4U Corsair, a Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw, a Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, and a Piasecki H-21.

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Ruby, did you know that each of planes, jets and helicopters in the Great Sky Race are based on real life flying machines? Here are some examples. They are a Gee Bee Model Z, a Fokker Dr.I, a Beechcraft G17, a LTV A-7 Corsair II, a SEPECAT Jaguar, a Vought F4U Corsair, a Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw, a Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, and a Piasecki H-21.

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1962. Un soldado estadounidense escapa de las inmediaciones del helicóptero Piasecki H-21 derribado, en Vietnam

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21 Helicopters used in the Vietnam War

ATTACK HELICOPTERS-

Bell AH-1 HueyCobra/ Cobra

Bell AH-1 J SeaCobra

OBSERVATION HELICOPTERS-

Hughes OH-6 Cayuse (Loach)

Bell OH-58 Kiowa

LIGHT UTILITY HELICOPTERS-

Bell H-13 Sioux

Bell Model 206

Hiller OH-23 Raven

Kaman HH-43 Huskie

GUNSHIP HELICOPTERS-

Bell UH-1B/ C Huey Cobra / Frog

ASW HELICOPTERS (Anti-Submarine Warfare)

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite / Super Seasprite

DRONE ANTI-SUBMARINE HELICOPTERS-

Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH

SEARCH AND RESCUE HELICOPTERS-

Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant

HEAVY-LIFT TRANSPORT HELICOPTERS-

Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave

Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion

Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe

TRANSPORT HELICOPTERS-

Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight

Piasecki H-21 Workhorse

CH-34 Choctaw

MULTIPURPOSE HELICOPTERS-

Bell UH-1 Iroquois

Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw https://executiveflyers.com/helicopters-used-in-vietnam/#:~:text=24%20Helicopters%20Used%20in%20Vietnam%20%28And%20Their%20Purpose%29,...%208%20Heavy-Lift%20Transport%20Helicopters%20...%20More%20items

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Vietnam War helicopters

The helicopter in the Vietnam conflict came into it's own, fulfilling a variety of roles for both sides. There are a total of 24 Vietnam War helicopters.

Bell AH-1 HueyCobra/Cobra - a dedicated two seat attack helicopter.

Bell AH-1J SeaCobra - a two seat attack helicopter.

Bell H-13 Sioux - Light Utility/Observation helicopter.

Bell Model 206 (JetRanger) - Light Utility helicopter.

Bell OH-58 Kiowa - Armed Scout and Reconnaissance.

Bell UH-1 Iroquois - Multi-role/Utility/Attack/Transport helicopter.

Bell UH-1B/C Cobra - Gunshi helicopter

Boeing CH-47 Chinook - Medium lift/Tandem Rota Transport helicopter.

Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight - Medium lift /Tandem Rota transport helicopter.

Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH -Drone Anti-Submarine helicopter.

Hiller OH-23 Raven - Light Utility.

Hughes OH-6 Cayuse - Light Observation/ Attack helicopter.

Kaman HH-43 Huskie - light Utility/Rescue helicopter.

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite - Ship based Anti-submarine Warfare.

Mil Mi-1 (Hare) - Liaison helicopter.

Mil Mi-4 (Hound) - Multi-mission utility helicopter.

Mil Mi-8 (Hip) - Multirole medium lift helicopter.

Piasecki H-21 Workhorse - Cargo/passenger Tandem Rota helicopter.

Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave - Heavy lift cargo helicopter.

Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion - Heavy lift transport helicopter.

Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe/Erickson S-64 Skycrane - Heavy lift cargo/ firefighting helicopter.

Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw - Multipurpose/ multirole helicopter.

Sikorksky H-34/CH-34 Choctaw - Transport/Close-Support helicopter.

Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant - Search and Rescue helicopter.

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Vertol 44A in Monino by Johnny Comstedt Via Flickr: C/n 417 built in 1957 registered N74056. Probably ordered by Soviet leader Khrushchev after his visit in the USA in 1959. In Central Air Force Museum in Monino, Russia 2. July 2013.

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Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw.

Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw practicing pick-ups at K-16 (Seoul City Airport), 1953. Photo by: Richard B. Keener, The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, (also known by its Sikorsky model number, S-55) was a multi-purpose helicopter used by the United States Army and United States Air Force. It was also license-built by Westland Aircraft as the Westland Whirlwind in the United Kingdom. United States Navy and United States Coast Guard models were designated HO4S, while those of the U.S. Marine Corps were designated HRS. In 1962, the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Marine Corps versions were all redesignated as H-19s like their U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force counterparts.

The H-19's first flight was on November 10, 1949 and it entered operations in 1950. Over 1,000 of the helicopters were manufactured by Sikorsky for the United States. An additional 550 were manufactured by licensees of the helicopter including Westland Aircraft, the Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du sud-est (SNCASE) in France and Mitsubishi in Japan.

The helicopter was widely exported, used by many other nations, including Portugal, Greece, Israel, Chile, South Africa, Denmark and Turkey.

In 1954 the Marines tested an idea to assist the rotors lift better in hot or high climates and if the helicopter was overloaded, by installing a rocket nozzle at the tip of each rotor blade with the fuel tank located in the center above the rotor blade hub. Enough fuel was provided for seven minutes of operation

The H-19 Chickasaw holds the distinction of being the US Army's first true transport helicopter and, as such, played an important role in the initial formulation of Army doctrine regarding air mobility and the battlefield employment of troop-carrying helicopters. The H-19 underwent live service tests in the hands of the 6th Transportation Company, during the Korean War beginning in 1951 as an unarmed transport helicopter. Undergoing tests such as medical evacuation, tactical control and front-line cargo support, the helicopter succeeded admirably in surpassing the capabilities of the H-5 Dragonfly which had been used throughout the war by the Army.

UH-19B at the Milestones of Flight Museum, Fox Field, Lancaster, California

A Sikorsky S-55B in service with Golden West Helicopters, St. Albert, Alberta, 1985

Sikorsky UH-19 at the Canadian Museum of Flight 1988.The aircraft is painted as it would have looked while working on the construction of the Mid-Canada Line

UH-19B, USAF Museum

A U.S. Navy HO4S of HS-4 taking off from USS Badoeng Strait in 1954

A USMC HRS-2 of HMR-161 in Korea, 1953

An HO4S of the Royal Canadian Navy

US H-19C in Korea.The U.S. Air Force ordered 50 H-19A’s for rescue duties in 1951. These aircraft were the primary rescue and medical evacuation helicopters for the USAF during the Korean War. The Air Force continued to use the H-19 through the 1960s, ultimately acquiring 270 of the H-19B model.[2]

France made aggressive use of helicopters in Algeria, both as troop transports and gunships, Piasecki/Vertol H-21 and Sud-built Sikorski H-34 helicopters rapidly displaced fixed-wing aircraft for the transport of paras and quick-reaction commando teams. In Indochina, a small number of Hiller H-23s and Sikorsky H-19s were available for casualty evacuation. In 1956, the French Air Force experimented with arming the H-19, then being superseded in service by the more capable Piasecki H-21 and Sikorsky H-34 helicopters. The H-19 was originally fitted with a 20-mm cannon, two rocket launchers, plus a 20-mm cannon, two 12.7-mm machine guns, and a 7.5-mm light machine gun firing from the cabin windows, but this load proved far too heavy, and even lightly armed H-19 gunships fitted with flexible machine guns for self-defense proved underpowered.

The H-19 was also used in the early days of the Vietnam War before being supplanted by the Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw, which was based on the H-19.

Via Flickr

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"The Golden Age of Test Flight" by Mike Machat.

Aircraft tested at the Edwards Air Force Base.

Top row: Bell X-1, Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, Bell X-2, North American X-15, Space Shuttle Enterprise.

Second Row: Lockheed P-80 or T-33 Shooting Star, Boeing B-29 Super Fortress, North American F-86 Sabre, Boeing B-50 Super Fortress, North American F-100 Super Sabre, Boeing NB-52 Stratofortress, Northrop T-38 Talon, Boeing 747-100SR Mothership.

Third Row: Bell X-5, Douglas X-3 Stiletto, North American X-10, Northrop X-4 Bantam, Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing, North American XB-70A Valkyrie.

Fourth Row: Ryan X-13 Vertijet, Convair XFY Pogo, Lockheed NF-105 Starfighter, Martin X-24B, Piasecki H-21 Shawnee.

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-US Army CH-37 with day-glo orange markings, circa 1950s. | Photo: US Army

FLIGHTLINE: 131 - SIKORSKY CH-37 MOJAVE

The Mojave was a transport helicopter used by the US Navy, Marine Corps and Army from the early 1950s through the late Sixties.

Ordered by the USMC in 1951 under the designation HR2S, the Sikorsky Mojave helo was the largest helicopter in the Western world at the time, and was the last large helicopter powered by piston engines. The Marines wanted a helicopter capable of carrying 3 M422 Mighty Mites or 26 fully equipped troops, and Sikorsky responded with the S-56, which housed two Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasps in pods (which also contained the retractable main landing gear), which left the fuselage free to carry the maximum amount of cargo. The nose featured clamshell doors, which allowed rapid loading and unloading of men and cargo. Considerations were made for ship-board service, as the main rotor and tail could be folded.

-A retired CH-37B on display at Pima Air & Space Museum. Note the folded rotor blades. | Photo: aeroprints.com

-Marines debarking from a Sikorsky HR2S-1 helicopter. | Photo: USN/USMC

-U.S. Marines offload a M101 105 mm howitzer from a Sikorsky HR2S-1 . | Photo: USN/USMC

Fifty-five production HR2S-1 were produced for the Marines, along with two HR2S-1W AEW choppers, equipped with AN/APS-20E search radar, for the Navy. Vibration in the airframe disrupted the radar enough that the Navy later abandoned the program.

-Composite image of the HR2S-1W. | Photo: US Navy

-Orthograph of the AEW variant of the Mojave. | Illustration: G.Apostolo "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Helicopters"

In 1954, one HR2S was evaluated by the Army as a YH-37, with 94 more H-37As beginning in 1956. In the early 1960s, the Army Mojaves were upgraded as H-37B, adding a Lear auto-stabilization system which allowed the helo to be loaded and unloaded while in a hover, as well as a redesigned nose door and crashproof fuel cells. With the 1962 Tri Service designation arrangement, the US Army choppers were redesignated CH-47A and B, while the USMC variant was now called the CH-37C.

In addition to transporting men and cargo, the Mojave was also used to retrieve film capsules returning from reconnaissance satellites and to cart around space capsules for the Mercury program.

-A U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky HR2S-1 helicopter lifting a Mercury program space capsule. | Photo: USN

Four US Army CH-37Bs were deployed to Vietnam in September 1965 to assist in the recovery of downed U.S. aircraft, operating from Marble Mountain Air Facility until May 1967. Over US$7.5 million worth of equipment was recovered by the quartet, some from behind enemy lines. Some Marine CH-37Cs were also pressed into service as retrieval aircraft.

-A CH-37C removes a battle damaged UH-34, 1966 . | Photo: USMC

-US Army CH-37 Helicopter with downed Piasecki H-21 . | Photo: US Army

Despite serving admirably, the CH-47s piston engines were underpowered, and the choppers were eclipsed by more modern turbine-powered heavy lift helos like the CH-53 and CH-47, and they were retired from service by the late 1960s. Six B and C model Mojaves are on display around the country.

-A Marine Corps CH-47C, missing its rotor blades, on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum. | Photo: Tomás Del Coro

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French H-34s Mounted with 20mm Cannons

These photographs show French Sikorsky H-34 helicopters belonging to    GHAN N°1 (Groupe d’Hélicoptères de l’Aéronavale (Navy Helicopter Group) No.1 on operations during the Algerian War. The aircraft have been fitted with former German 20x82mm MG 151 cannon mounted as a door gun.

In Algeria a number of aircraft were adapted to provide fire support for air assault operations with Piasecki H-21s and Sikorsky H-34 (known as the HSS-1 in French service) both being tested in the field mounted with machine guns, 20mm auto-cannon and rockets. The developments have been attributed to  Colonel Félix Brunet and Captain Emile Martin. The Sikorsky proved to be the better, more manoeuvrable platform and some H-34s were fitted with what were colloquially known as ‘flowerpot’ mounts - these pedestals could be fitted with specially adapted MG 151/20s. 

Another shot of an MG 151/20 mounted in a French H-34 (source)

The German surplus MG 151/20s had a formidable rate of fire of over 700 rounds per minute. They had been manufactured by Mauser and had been fitted to various aircraft including the German Bf 109, the Japanese Ki-61-I and the Italian C.205 and G.55. 

In Algeria the MG 151s were also mounted in vehicles such as Citroen 2 CV jeeps, fitted on similar ‘flowerpot’ mounts. The guns could lay down a substantial base of fire but ammunition was limited by the helicopter’s capacity. The MG 151/20 would also be later mounted to Aérospatiale Alouette III by the Portuguese and Rhodesians. 

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The “Flying Banana,” the Piasecki H-21 Shawnee was another early helicopter in Vietnam. Army H-21 helos conduct an assault near Bien Hoa, north of Saigon, on Jan. 12, 1964. [1050 x 802] Check this blog!