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24 Jan 2023 Garand Picture of the Day - Korea
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Wow, flying bananas! Never seen those choppers before, had to look them up: Piasecki H-21 Workhorse / Shawnee.
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Yep, not a common chopper to see.
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Technically, these are a predecessor, the Piaseki HRP that appear to be HRP-1s, having doped fabric skins over mild steel tubing and wooden ribs. Note the forward-tipped canopy. MORE
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Last edited by Bob Womack; 01-21-2023 at 07:59 PM.
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First time seeing one as well, I love it! I wonder how many soldiers it could carry at one time? Looks like quite a few. I love all the open window in the cockpit. Must have been an unreal experience to fly one of those. It reminds me of the gondola hanging from a blimp with rotor blades haha
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As a troop carrier, the capacity was two crewmen and eight to ten passengers.
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Without the skin:
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Yes, IIRC it was designed to carry one squad.
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Originally Posted by
Surpmil
the Vickers Wellington method
Geodetic Construction. I think as it, as a simple explanation, as the shortest distance between two fixed points on a curved surface. It is much more complicated than that, of-course, involving two intersecting arcs on a curved surface, resulting in the forces cancelling each other out.
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Does make me wonder what we could do with some of the high-tech modern fabrics though.
What, you mean like Kevlar and, preferably, bullet-proof?
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Back when i was doing government security I had the pleasure of meeting Frank Piasecki on a number occasions. He was aviation genius, he always wore red suspenders. Going into his company was like going back in time to an old design bureau where everything was on drafting boards with pencils. I remember one of his projects was taking four surplus H-34 helicopters and attaching them to a non-rigid balloon for develop a heavy lift "helicopter". I remember it crashing at Lakehurst NAS during one of the test not far from where the Hindenberg crashed and exploded.
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