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The XH-44 tipped over on its first tethered test flight with Hiller at the controls, resulting in minor damage. On July 4, 1944, the XH-44 made its first untethered flight at the University of California's football stadium at Berkeley. [2] The helicopter made an appearance during a public demonstration at San Francisco on August 30, 1944. [2] [3]
Preserved at the USS Midway Museum—San Diego, California, USA [46] CVB-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Midway: 27 October 1945 1 October 1977 31 years, 339 days Scrapped in 1978 [47] CVB-43 Coral Sea: Midway: 1 October 1947 26 April 1990 42 years, 207 days Scrapped in 2000 [48] CV-44 No name assigned (no image available) Midway — — —
Based on Boeing's earlier Model 500 gas generator, the T50's main application was in the QH-50 DASH helicopter drone of the 1950s. An up-rated version designated Model 550 was developed to power the QH-50D and was given the military designation T50-BO-12 .
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.
Air medical transport specialist Air Methods announced yesterday it had received a contract worth $44.8 million from Sikorsky Aircraft to help modernize the U.S. Army's air ambulance fleet.
The SH-3 was the primary helicopter for retrieving crewed space capsules starting with Mercury-Atlas 7 in May 1962. [44] Helicopter 66 was the primary recovery vehicle for Apollo missions 8 and 10 to 13. [45] In February 1971, an SH-3A, operating from the amphibious assault ship USS New Orleans, recovered Apollo 14. [46]
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