The Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee is an American helicopter, the fourth of a line of tandem rotor helicopters designed and built by Piasecki Helicopter...
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The Piasecki HUP Retriever or H-25 Army Mule, later UH-25, is a compact single radial engine, twin overlapping tandem rotor utility helicopter developed...
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The Piasecki HRP Rescuer (also called Harp) is a United States tandem-rotor transport or rescue helicopter designed by Frank Piasecki and built by Piasecki...
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The Piasecki H-16 Transporter (company designation PV-15) was a tandem-rotor transport or rescue helicopter designed by Frank Piasecki and built by Piasecki...
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and the 1950s. Its founder, Frank Piasecki, was ousted in 1956 and started a new company, Piasecki Aircraft. Piasecki Helicopter was renamed Vertol Corporation...
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Frank Nicolas Piasecki (/piːəˈsɛki/ pee-ə-SEK-ee; Polish: [pjaˈsɛtski]; October 24, 1919 – February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation...
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observation biplane with "banana-planform" wings (1914) Piasecki H-21 – a military helicopter Handley Page H.P.42 - a British biplane airliner HRP Rescuer – an...
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McCulloch MC-4 (1951) Piasecki H-16 (1953) Piasecki H-21 (1949) Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever (1952) Piasecki HRP Rescuer (1945) Piasecki PV-14 (1948) Rotorcraft...
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The Piasecki PA-97 Helistat was an American experimental heavy-lift aircraft, built by Piasecki by fastening four H-34J helicopters to a framework beneath...
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Bloomfield, Indiana Shawnee Regional Airport, near Shawnee, Oklahoma Piasecki H-21/CH-21 Shawnee helicopter SS Shawnee, a 1927 passenger steamship Shawnee...
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Boeing CH-47 Chinook (redirect from H-47 Chinook)
aimed at taking over the missions of the old piston-engined Piasecki H-21 and Sikorsky H-34 helicopters, and be consequently capable of carrying about...
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III, the Sikorsky S-51, Sikorsky S-55, and Sikorsky S-58, the Piasecki H-21 and Piasecki H-25, and the Morane-Saulnier MS-500 Criquet. The carrier had a...
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an Agusta Bell 206C JetRanger, a Gyrodyne QH-50D, a Super Puma and a Piasecki H-21. The museum also holds two record-breakers: Westland Lynx G-LYNX which...
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decidedly counter-insurgent in nature, with helicopters such as the Piasecki H-21 being used not only to carry infantry, but also machine guns and rocket...
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1956; in 1958 the Boeing Vertol V-44, a 15-seat civil version of the Piasecki H-21, took over. In 1962 they transitioned to the tandem rotor, twin turbine...
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Wright R-1820 Cyclone (redirect from Wright R-1820-21 Cyclone)
early versions of the Polikarpov I-16 fighter (as the M-25), and the Piasecki H-21 helicopter. The R-1820 also found limited use in armoured vehicles....
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Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave (redirect from Sikorsky H-37)
1950s. It entered service as the HR2S-1 Deuce with USMC in 1956, and as the H-37A Mojave with the U.S. Army that same year. In the early 1960s, the designation...
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films set in Las Vegas A Convair C-131 Samaritan transport aircraft and Piasecki H-21 helicopter were prominent among the scattered wreckage of the boneyard...
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Media/Wawa Line. The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation opened a manufacturing plant in Morton in 1947. The Piasecki H-21 and the Piasecki HUP-1 were both manufactured...
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helicopters in Algeria, both as troop transports and gunships. Piasecki H-21 and Sud-built Sikorsky H-34 helicopters rapidly displaced fixed-wing aircraft for...
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being superseded in service by the more capable Piasecki H-21 and Sikorsky CH-34 helicopters. The H-19 was originally fitted with two rocket launchers...
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List of rotorcraft (section Piasecki Helicopter)
Phoenix Skyblazer Piasecki 59 Airgeep Piasecki H-16 Pathfinder Piasecki H-21 Piasecki HRP-1 Piasecki HUP Piasecki PA-97 Piasecki PV-2 Piasecki X-49 Pitcairn...
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comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight Piasecki H-21 Yakovlev Yak-24 Related lists List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force...
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Administrators (1958–1971), DeHavilland U-6 Beavers (1960–1966), Piasecki H-21, CH-21, and HH-21 Workhorse helicopters (1958–1966), and Cessna O-2 Skymasters...
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Self-Defense Force) JG-0001 Piasecki H-21 (Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) Aircraft on display Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star Piasecki H-21 HU-1B Iroquois North...
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was activated in 1956 to perform traditional helicopter missions with Piasecki H-21 Workhorses for the Tactical Air Command. It was inactivated in 1960...
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aircraft) North American F-100F Super Sabre ("Chase 2" | chase aircraft) Piasecki H-21 Work Horse ("Rescue NASA 1" | rescue helicopter) After its initial successful...
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The 347th was initially equipped with Sikorsky H-19 helicopters, but soon replaced them with Piasecki H-21s. Its operations included participation in Operation...
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