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 ...ECHNICAL: HELICOPTERS
Piasecki/Westland
deal imminent
BY JULIAN MOXON
AWestland 30 helicopter will be modified with a ring tail
and stub wings to increase agility
and speed, under a planned
deal between the UK compan...
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 ...USINESS AVIATION
Heli-Stat rolls out
LAKEHURST
Rotary-wing pioneer Frank
N. Piasecki has rolled out the
interconnecting structure
(ICS) of his Heli-Stat heavy
vertical lifter, which is being
developed under a US Forest
Service contract. The struc
ture has four helicopte...
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 ...ENERAL AVIATION
Piasecki seeks
helicopter partners
ATLANTIC CITY
Frank Piasecki, president of
the Piasecki Aircraft Corpor
ation, is attempting to find
manufacturing and market
ing partners for a new
compound...
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 ...he wing, and
make other changes so that it
will embody all the features of
the 14,0001b Starship I. It will
not then need the ballast
carried by the second aircraft
during certification tests.
Piasecki
Heli-Stat
crashes
LAKEHURST ~
The Piasecki Heli-Stat, which
combined the buoyancy of an
airship with a helicopter
power system, crashed on July
1, at Lakehurst, New Jersey,
killing o...
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 ...66 FLIGHT, 14 Septembe i9J,
TALKING of HELICOPTERS
Outspoken Views at Helicopter Association Dinner—and wore about the Piasecki Lecture
A already reported, Mr. Frank to. Piasecki read apaper on Military Aspects of the Transport Helicopterbefore the Helicopter Association in London on
August 31st. We gave a summary of ...
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 ...mpty, 8,500 lb
approx.; normal gross weight, 11,500 approx.; overload gross
weight, more than 14,000 lb; max. speed at s.l., 130/140 m.p.h.;
service ceiling about 17,000ft; range, over 500 miles.
PIASECKI PV-1S TRANSPORTER (YH-16) • This
typical Piasecki design is the largest helicopter in the world,
measuring 134ft overall and standing 25ft high. The fuselage is
(Right) Piasecki H-21.
(Dr...
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 ...he XHJD-i—the McDonnell company
is now working on the XHRH-i transport helicopter for the U.S.
Navy, the HCH-i flying crane for the U.S. Marine Corps, and
the XL-25 convertiplane for the U.S.A.F.
PIASECKI RESCUER • The Piasecki Helicopter Corpora
tion is famed for its tandem-rotored transport helicopters, and
Bell XHSL-1.
PIASECKI XH-16 • This highly promising large helicopter
is being bui...
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 ...licopters
are linked together through a
cable control system running
from each helicopter to a
mixing box located in the
centre of the ICS.
Some flex couplings used in
the Heli-Stat come from
Piasecki's H-16 helicopter
project, of which two were
built, while the propeller box
driving the propeller is from
the Allison engine used in the
P-51 Mustang. Piasecki says
"This is the cheapes...
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 ...itain as I
a result of the delay.
Mr Masefield also pointed to the need!
for an airport close to London; StanJ
sted was 35 miles away, which was tool
far, but "as close as we are going to g<
Canadian Piasecki Company
A new company, Piasecki Aircraft of I
Canada, has been formed and in addi-j
tion to manufacturing aircraft will act!
as representative for Piasecki Aircraft!
Corporation products and ...
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 ...n 1,100 yd in length."Excellent British aircraft flying at Mach 2 are being
developed," said the General, "and Canadian aircraft available by1960 will be at least as good as the present British ones.
PIASECKI EXPANSION
HPE Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, Philadelphia, has recently•*• extended its facilities by acquiring the 330-acre site, plant and
other physical assets of the aircraft division of ...
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 ...nto position
in front of the aircraft and the cargons pushed inside.
This equipment is expected to be completed and put into service
in the near future; the results^will be watched with interest.
THE PIASECKI HELICOPTER LECTURE
US. Designer on the "Unique" Potentialities of Rotary-wing Transports
TWO important events in the fixture-list of the HelicopterAssociation of Great Britain took place last...
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 ...MacBride, Esq., Guy Schofield,
Esq., W. B. Harbud, Esq^, W. H. Parsons, Esq., E. A. Lister, Esq., G. R.Boak, Esq., Cyril Birks. Esq., Thnrstan James, Esq, H. C. Drake. Esq.
Latest American Helicopter
Piasecki XHJP-1 Claimed to be World's Fastest and to Have Made First
Helicopter Loop
ITRTHER information is now available concerning the
Piasecki tandem-rotor helicopter, pictures of which we
publishe...
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 ...
attacking other birds. Airliners crossing the Andes have been
attacked by condors, many pilots have had to contend with savage
attacks from eagles, whilst such relatively inoffensive birds as
THE Piasecki Company has proved to be one of the most successful of the many which have entered the helicopter
business in America since the war, and its progress is emphasized
by the fact that all avai...
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 ...ce bases, Lt-Gen. Josef Kammhuber
stated that the West German Air Force,which he commands, would have 1,326
fighters and fighter-bombers when itreached full strength in 1961.
Helicopter Old Hand
FROM Piasecki Aircraft Corporationcomes news that Mr. Henry Blankenheim
has joined the company as production andfactory manager of its Philadelphia plant
and the premises recently acquired from
Bellanca at...
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 ...out to the
mother airline that his is
the only bit of Delta that
flies a four-engined air
craft. ..
• In the interests of accu
racy, that HUP-2 CS&L,
25-31 March) should have
been credited to Piasecki,
not Vertol, as much-
honoured Nephew Frank
Piasecki points out. He
should know, having
founded in 1940 PV-
Erigineering Forum,
which became Piasecki
Helicopter Corporation
(building 3...
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 ...EFENCE
DEVELOPMENT GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
Black Hawk poised to fly faster
Prototype SH-60F set to be modified into compound helicopter using ducted propeller for thrust and anti-torque
Piasecki Aircraft has taken delivery
of a Sikorsky SH-60F Seahawk pro
totype for modification into a com
pound helicopter using the com
pany's vectored thrust ducted
propeller (VTDP). The develop...
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 ...cDonnell XV-1.
(Above) McDonnell XV-J. (Se/ow) Piasecki HUP-2.
R-975-34 engine of 525 h.p., whereas the HUP-2 has the 550 h.p. Continental R-975-42 engine and an automatic pilot as the primary
controller. This fitment has enabled the lateral tai...
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 ...that both the Bristol Sycamore and Westland-Sikorsky
S-55 have been utilized in anti-submarine trials. In his lecture
Military Aspects of the Transport Helicopter, delivered last August,
Mr. F. N. Piasecki expressed the pride of his company in the fact
that their HUP-2 helicopter had been selected as the standard
A model of the Bell XHSL-1 (P. and W. Double Wasp) anti-submarine
helicopter de...
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 ...elicopter operation has been ob-
tained. All three are relatively small aircraft of single-rotor-
with-tail-rotor configuration. Other than the three names
mentioned the only makers in production are Piasecki, who
are wholly engaged on Service orders; except for their first
experimental machine they have devoted themselves to
developing the tandem-twin-rotor type illustrated in Part I
of this arti...
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 ...ckburn's
post as sales publicity manager of Vickers-
Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd has been taken
over by Mr J. H. Motum. Mr N. A.
Barfield, DCAe, AFRACS, is now deputy
sales publicity manager.
USA
Piasecki 1963 The eighth year of oper
ations by Piasecki Aircraft Corp, which
ended last June 30, resulted in record sales
of $4,901,506 and record profit of $496,527.
Most important development p...
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