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The Hiller OH-23 Raven is a two, three, or four-place, military light observation helicopter based on the Hiller Model 360. The Model 360 was designated by the company as the UH-12 ("UH" for United Helicopters), [1] which was first flown in 1948. Initially it was a two-place helicopter powered by a piston engine that entered service in the late ...
Hiller OH-23 Raven, three-place, light observation helicopter, similar to the one Thompson commanded during the massacre On March 16, 1968, Thompson and his Hiller OH-23 Raven observation helicopter crew, Lawrence Colburn (gunner) and Glenn Andreotta (crew chief), were ordered to support Task Force Barker 's search and destroy operations in ...
Hiller OH-23 Raven: Multipurpose light helicopter Hiller Aircraft: 1948 1950 2000 McCulloch MC-4: Light helicopter McCulloch Aircraft Corporation: Evaluated by the United States Army as the YH-30 and the United States Navy as the XHUM-1. 1948 Never Unknown Sikorsky H-19: Utility helicopter Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 1949 1950 1102 Vertol H-21
The Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) program was a United States Army program to evaluate, develop and field a light scout helicopter to replace the Army's aging Bell OH-13 Sioux. It gained impetus with the advent of the Vietnam War, and was aided by advances in helicopter technology, specifically the development of the turboshaft engine.
Besides helicopters, in the year after World War II, Stanley Hiller researched a two-man rocket-jet aircraft design that took off and landed vertically, called the VJ-100, in which he tried unsuccessfully to interest the U.S. military. [3] The company was renamed Hiller Helicopters in 1948. It was involved in the development of a number of ...
Oct. 1—A main attraction at an American Legion open house in Frederick on Saturday was a restored helicopter used during the Vietnam War. The Huey 823 completed more than 1,300 combat flight ...
Six people are dead after a helicopter crashed in Logan County, West Virginia, on Wednesday, authorities said.
South Vietnam lost 1,018 aircraft and helicopters from January 1964 to September 1973. [6] 877 Republic of Vietnam aircraft were captured at war's end (1975) [7] Of the 2,750 [8] aircraft and helicopters received by South Vietnam, only about 308 survived (240 flew to Thailand or US warships [9] and 68 returned to the United States [10]).