Piasecki H-16 Transporter
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The Piasecki H-16 Transporter 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 Forc
The US Air Force prototype Piasecki YH-16A Transporter.
Another view of the first YH-16A prototype
Piasecki Helicopter
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The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was an American designer and manufacturer of helicopters in Philadelphia and nearby Morton, Pennsylvania, in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Its founder, Frank Piasec
Piasecki H-16 Transporter
…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. Given…
XHRP-1 during flight trials (1946)
YH-16 prototype in flight