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Looks like some blonde with her hair tied back is going for a sight seeing tour....
Somebody's joining the Mile High Club ?
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Cessna went into the helo business once, and created the YH-41 Seneca.
Great visibility. Sure looks like a Cessna product, no?
Fifty were built, including ten for US Army testing, five for Iran, and four for Ecuador.
The prototype remains in the Army Aviation Museum in Ft. Ruckner, Alabama. All others are extinct.
Great visibility. Sure looks like a Cessna product, no?
Fifty were built, including ten for US Army testing, five for Iran, and four for Ecuador.
The prototype remains in the Army Aviation Museum in Ft. Ruckner, Alabama. All others are extinct.
Hmmm, Cessna???? Looks more like an Edsel to me....
Okay maybe not as bad as a Fiat 7002...but close
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ipscgraz
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Cessna went into the helo business once, and created the YH-41 Seneca.
Great visibility. Sure looks like a Cessna product, no?
Fifty were built, including ten for US Army testing, five for Iran, and four for Ecuador.
The prototype remains in the Army Aviation Museum in Ft. Ruckner, Alabama. All others are extinct.
Cessna tried to enter the light helicopter market at the same time as the Hiller UH 12 and earlier versions of the Bell 47. The civilian version was known as the Cessna SkyHook. Was not a big seller. As the company was required to maintain a parts inventory to support the commercial fleet for a minimum of 7 years, Cessna decided the cheapest solution (when they threw in the rotary wing towel) was to buy back all the aircraft they had sold.
Probably saved some lives, by doing that.
Edit: You can just see the vertical driveshaft in the fifth pic. Engine power to a transmission inside the cabin with a driveshaft vertically between the seats to the main rotor gearbox. Besides saving lives, shutting this down probably saved some ears as well.
Hiller 360 from the days of long ago. this one is retired in Whitehorse.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/hiller_oh-23.php
the H-23B, powered by a 200-210hp Franklin engine, was the first version used by the US Army as a trainer. A considerable number were built: 216 were assigned to the Primary Flying School at Fort Walters and another 237 were used for various tasks.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/hiller_oh-23.php
the H-23B, powered by a 200-210hp Franklin engine, was the first version used by the US Army as a trainer. A considerable number were built: 216 were assigned to the Primary Flying School at Fort Walters and another 237 were used for various tasks.
Marseille I believe flew 'Yellow 14' The a/c in the picture also appears to be an E model with the strutted tail plane. After the E the tailplanes were cantilevered on 109s - so likely not Marseille's G2. Marseille actually favored the F for its lighter weight even though more lightly armed.
Beat me to it, that definitely appears to be an E model with the braced tailplane.
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The first of nearly 34,000. BF 109 V1. D-IABI:
Poor thing had a bad case of Stuka Face.
Not surprising - the 109 V.1 and the JU87 A were both powered by the Junkers Jumo 210
Poor thing had a bad case of Stuka Face.
Not surprising - the 109 V.1 and the JU87 A were both powered by the Junkers Jumo 210
Messerschmitt Bf 109
From = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109
" The first prototype (Versuchsflugzeug 1 or V1), with civilian registration D-IABI, was completed by May 1935, but the new German engines were not yet ready. To get the "R III" designs into the air, the RLM acquired four Rolls-Royce Kestrel VI engines by trading Rolls-Royce a Heinkel He 70 Blitz for use as an engine test-bed.[nb 2] Messerschmitt received two of these engines and adapted the engine mounts of V1 to take the V-12 engine upright. V1 made its maiden flight at the end of May 1935 at the airfield located in the southernmost Augsburg neighborhood of Haunstetten, piloted by Hans-Dietrich "Bubi" Knoetzsch. After four months of flight testing, the aircraft was delivered in September to the Luftwaffe's central test centre at the Erprobungsstelle Rechlin to take part in the design competition. "
In 1935, the first Jumo engines became available, so V2 was completed in October using the 449 kW (600 hp) Jumo 210A engine. V3 followed, the first to be mounted with guns, but it did not fly until May 1936 due to a delay in procuring another Jumo 210 engine.
From = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109
" The first prototype (Versuchsflugzeug 1 or V1), with civilian registration D-IABI, was completed by May 1935, but the new German engines were not yet ready. To get the "R III" designs into the air, the RLM acquired four Rolls-Royce Kestrel VI engines by trading Rolls-Royce a Heinkel He 70 Blitz for use as an engine test-bed.[nb 2] Messerschmitt received two of these engines and adapted the engine mounts of V1 to take the V-12 engine upright. V1 made its maiden flight at the end of May 1935 at the airfield located in the southernmost Augsburg neighborhood of Haunstetten, piloted by Hans-Dietrich "Bubi" Knoetzsch. After four months of flight testing, the aircraft was delivered in September to the Luftwaffe's central test centre at the Erprobungsstelle Rechlin to take part in the design competition. "
In 1935, the first Jumo engines became available, so V2 was completed in October using the 449 kW (600 hp) Jumo 210A engine. V3 followed, the first to be mounted with guns, but it did not fly until May 1936 due to a delay in procuring another Jumo 210 engine.
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From = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_112
Heinkel He 112
" The first prototype, V1, was completed on 1 September 1935.[8] Specifications of the Technisches Amt required that the competing aircraft be fitted with the Junkers Jumo 210, however, as the engine was unavailable,[9] a 518 kW (695 hp) Rolls-Royce Kestrel V was fitted instead. "
" The second prototype, V2, was completed in November. It was powered by a 480 kW (640 hp) Jumo 210C engine and fitted with a three-blade propeller, but was otherwise identical to the V1."
Heinkel He 112
" The first prototype, V1, was completed on 1 September 1935.[8] Specifications of the Technisches Amt required that the competing aircraft be fitted with the Junkers Jumo 210, however, as the engine was unavailable,[9] a 518 kW (695 hp) Rolls-Royce Kestrel V was fitted instead. "
" The second prototype, V2, was completed in November. It was powered by a 480 kW (640 hp) Jumo 210C engine and fitted with a three-blade propeller, but was otherwise identical to the V1."
