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United States aircraft of the 1950s; Military: Anti-submarine aircraft • Attack • Bomber • Electronic warfare • Experimental • Fighter • Patrol • Reconnaissance • Trainer • Transport • Utility
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: Cargo helicopter Piasecki Helicopter: 1952 1954 707 American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep: Experimental tip jet. observation helicopter. American ...
The Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave (company designation S-56) is an American large heavy-lift military helicopter of the 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.
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The United States Army first ordered Bell 47s in 1948 under the designation H-13. These would later receive the name Sioux. [3] Initially, the United States Navy procured several Bell 47s, designated HTL-1, between 1947 and 1958. The United States Coast Guard evaluated this model, and procured two HTL-1s for multi-mission support in the New ...
The HZ-1 Aerocycle, also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer's designation DH-5 Aerocycle, was an American one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction, [ 1 ] the HZ-1 was expected to become a standard ...
The Sikorsky S-60 helicopter, a prototype "flying crane", was derived from the S-56 in 1958. Proving to be underpowered, the development of the S-60 led to the larger, turbine-engined Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe military transport helicopter, and its civil S-64 Skycrane variant, which were already on the drawing board by the time the sole example of the S-60 crashed on 3 April 1961.