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In use by USAAF, US Navy and US Coast Guard. Kellett KD-1 (La Cierva C.30A) (general use Autogyro) Platt-LePage XR-1 (experimental helicopter) Sikorsky R-4B "Hoverfly" (general helicopter) Sikorsky YR-4B "Hoverfly", version of R-4, known as HNS-1 in Navy service (ambulance/sea patrol helicopter) Sikorsky R-6 (rescue/reconnaissance helicopter)
The Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache (English: Dragon [1]) was a helicopter developed by Germany during World War II. A single 750-kilowatt (1,010 hp) Bramo 323 radial engine powered two three-bladed 11.9-metre (39 ft) rotors mounted on twin booms on either side of the 12.2-metre-long (40 ft) cylindrical fuselage.
The R-4 was the world's first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces, [1] the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. In U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard service, the helicopter was known as the Sikorsky HNS-1.
World War II 1943 1945 225 Kellett R-8: Experimental helicopter Kellett Autogiro Corporation: Prototype. Program canceled 1946. 1944 Never 2 Bell H-13 Sioux: Light observation helicopter Bell Aircraft Corporation: Bell 47 variant. 1945 1946 2407 Bell H-12: Military utility helicopter Bell Aircraft: Company Model 48: 1946 Never 13 [3] Kellett XR-10
Sikorsky HNS - Helicopter; Sikorsky HO2S - Helicopter; Sikorsky HO3S - Helicopter; Sikorsky JRS - Transport amphibian; Sikorsky JR2S - Impressed transport flying boat; Sikorsky XPBS-1 - Patrol flying boat; Stearman N2S - Trainer; Stinson OY Sentinel - Observation/liaison aircraft; Stinson R3Q - Trainer/utility aircraft; Spartan NP - Trainer
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.
Helicopters like this H-19 were used in the Korean war. [107] [108] The Korean war was the first time the helicopter was used extensively in a conflict. [107] While helicopters such as the Sikorsky YR-4 were used in World War II, [109] their use was rare, and Jeeps like the Willys MB were the main method of
The Platt-LePage XR-1, also known by the company designation PL-3, [1] is an early American transverse rotors helicopter, built by the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company of Eddystone, Pennsylvania. The winner of a United States Army Air Corps design competition held in early 1940, the XR-1 was the first helicopter tested by the USAAF, flying in 1941 ...