Piasecki YH-16 helicopter (USAF Photo) Piasecki YH-16 helicopter. 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 Helicopter. The prototypes were evaluated by the United States Air Force and Army, but the crash of the second test aircraft led to cancelling the project. … Read more
Warplanes preserved in New Orleans, Jackson Barracks Military Museum, 6400 St. Claude Ave., 70146-0330. (Author Photos) Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan (Serial No. 44-0951). (Author Photos) Bell UH-1D Iroquois Helicopter (Serial No. 65-9911). (Author Photos) Convair YF-102 Delta Dagger (Serial No. 53-1787), C/N 62334. (Author Photos) Douglas A-26C Invader (Serial No. 44-35937), L. This A-26C-50-DT (converted to … Read more
de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle (U.S. Army Photo) de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle. 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] … Read more
Bell AH-1 Cobra (Headquarters Marine Corps Operation/Exercise/Event: Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lance Cpl C. H. Fitzgerald Photo) Cpl Alvin Hicks, of Marine Wing Support Squadron 373’s bulk fuels section, refuels an AH-1W Cobra from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in a forward aircraft refueling point at an air base in Iraq, 28 Nov 2005. The Bell AH-1 … Read more
Bell X-22A (US Army Photo) Bell X-22A V/STOL Research Airplane (Serial No. 151521), currently in the Niagara Aerospace Museum, Niagara Falls, New York, on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation. The Bell X-22 is an American V/STOL X-plane with four tilting ducted fans. Takeoff was to selectively occur either with the propellers tilted vertically … Read more
