• Piasecki Helicopter Corporation designed and manufactured helicopters in Philadelphia and nearby Morton, Pennsylvania, in the late 1940s and the 1950s...
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    The Piasecki HUP Retriever or H-25 Army Mule, later UH-25, is a compact single radial engine, twin overlapping tandem rotor utility helicopter developed...
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    Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee is an American helicopter, the fourth of a line of tandem rotor helicopters designed and built by Piasecki Helicopter...
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  • Frank Piasecki to develop compound helicopters and other advanced rotorcraft after he was ousted from the leadership of his first company, Piasecki Helicopter...
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    The Piasecki HRP Rescuer (also called Harp) is a United States tandem-rotor transport or rescue helicopter designed by Frank Piasecki and built by Piasecki...
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    The Piasecki X-49 "SpeedHawk" is an American four-bladed, twin-engined experimental high-speed compound helicopter developed by Piasecki Aircraft. The...
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    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...
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  • Phoenix Skyblazer Piasecki 59 Airgeep Piasecki H-16 Pathfinder Piasecki H-21 Piasecki HRP-1 Piasecki HUP Piasecki PA-97 Piasecki PV-2 Piasecki X-49 Pitcairn...
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    Nicolas Piasecki (/piːəˈsɛki/ pee-ə-SEK-ee; Polish: [pjaˈsɛtski]; October 24, 1919 – February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation...
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    The Piasecki PA-97 Helistat was an American experimental heavy-lift aircraft, built by Piasecki by fastening four H-34J helicopters to a framework beneath...
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  • Francis Piasecki (1951–2018), French footballer Frank Piasecki (1919–2008), American engineer and founder of two aviation businesses: Piasecki Helicopter Piasecki...
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    This is a list of United States military helicopters. List of U.S. military equipment named for Native Americana U.S. DoD aircraft designations table...
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    The Piasecki PV-2 is a helicopter designed by Frank Piasecki. The PV-2 is best known for being one of the first successful helicopters flown in the United...
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    envisioned to be smaller and easier to fly than a helicopter. To meet the US Army's requirement, Piasecki's design featured two tandem, three-blade ducted...
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    Hughes Satellite Systems; Hughes Helicopters (the civilian helicopter line was divested as MD Helicopters); Piasecki Helicopter (subsequently known as Boeing...
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    (1967) Filper Helicopter (1965) HERC JOV-3 (1948) Jovair Sedan 4A (1963) McCulloch MC-4 (1951) Piasecki H-16 (1953) Piasecki H-21 (1949) Piasecki H-25/HUP...
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  • The Piasecki 16H was a series of compound helicopters produced in the 1960s. The first version of the Pathfinder, the -1 version, first flew in 1962....
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    Military Aircraft. Boeing Helicopters was created as Boeing Vertol when the Vertol Aircraft Corporation (formerly Piasecki Helicopter) company of Morton, Pennsylvania...
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    worked for Piasecki Helicopter Corporation where Jovanovich's patented tandem rotary design was used on the Piasecki PV-3. The first helicopter they designed...
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    The 1st Helicopter Squadron is a United States Air Force unit based at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland reporting to the 316th Operations Group, administratively...
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    Arthur M. Young and Frank Piasecki, and today it continues to record the new and ever expanding role of the U.S. helicopter industry. The exhibits span...
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    sold to Frank Piasecki, who had been an engineer with Platt-LePage during its development and had started his own company, Piasecki Helicopter. Leavitt made...
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    Detroit The News Journal North American Aviation Philadelphia Phillies Piasecki Helicopter Corporation Remington Arms Company St. Joe Company US Airways United...
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    that the new helicopter should be operated as a light tactical transport aimed at taking over the missions of the old piston-engined Piasecki H-21 and Sikorsky...
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    American rotorcraft manufacturer Piasecki Helicopter emerged as a pioneering developer of tandem-rotor helicopters; perhaps the most famous of these...
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    and eventually US Airways. He later was a vice president of the Piasecki Helicopter Corp. of which he and Laurence Rockefeller were early investors on...
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    Super Puma and a Piasecki H-21. The museum also holds two record-breakers: Westland Lynx G-LYNX which has held the absolute helicopter world speed record...
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  • Alliance Trust Company Ohio Oil Company National City Bank of New York Piasecki Helicopter Public Service Corporation of New Jersey RKO Pictures Rockefeller...
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    North Carolina. With the assistance of a Royal Canadian Air Force Piasecki helicopter, Lynn Garrison salvaged this Kingfisher from Calvert Island (British...
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    achieve 7,000 ft. Piasecki Helicopter developed the Piasecki PA-97 Helistat using the rotor systems from four obsolete helicopters and a surplus Navy...
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