Sikorsky S-58:
Helicopters were always way outside of my price range, but if I could have affforded one of these, I'd have tricked it out as a camper.
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R-1820, same engine as the B-17 and early Gooney Bird. The Brits made a turbine version with a goofy-looking nose.
ReplyDeleteI hooked logs to one, a screaming me-me, right at forty years ago. Scary aircraft, with a driveline running up between the pilots to a transmission and rotor mast right behind the pilots. It was not my favorite ride.
ReplyDeleteDeadstick, Westland Wessex, in service through 2003. Always think of the Wessex when I see a S-58, but that piston engine sounds is glorious.
ReplyDeleteNot sure it was the same model, but early 60 something my Dad took us 4 to Disney Land in LA. We flew in a Turboprop from Oakland to LA, and then caught a shuttle Helicopter, some kind of Sikorski product to a closer airport. Ride of my life.
ReplyDeleteIt vibrated wildly the whole flight. Dad even talked the crew into letting me see upfront. It was behind all of a leather curtain as I remember, but it was exciting seeing the pilot and copilot and a veritable wall of dial indicators.
Later I worked under one hauling out wood products from a job site. That was just a glass bubble with a rotor a tail and a VW engine. In fact, this one blew a pushrod at the job site. It wasn't so impressive but then I was a bit older.
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Back when I was an active bullet sponge, the UH-34 (Navy/USMC version) was my battle-taxi.
ReplyDeleteSame model that recovered the Mercury 7 capsules.
I started out as a crewman on HH-34 at GLYNCO. VERY familiar with that sound. And that sucker had been started not long before that. Either that, or it was out of oil!
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