Marines and helicopters, 1946-1962

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Автор: Eugene W Rawlins

Название: Marines and helicopters, 1946-1962

Издательство: History and Museums Division

Год: 1976

ISBN: B0006CRXW0

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 113

Формат: PDF

Размер: 3,82 МБ

Описание:The commissioning of Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 (HMX-1) in 1947 at Quantico, Vir ginia, is often cited as the official beginning of rotary-winged aviation within the Marine Corps. Interest by the Marine Corps in the capabilities and potentialities of rotary-winged machines, how ever, dates back some 15 years prior to the com missioning of HMX-1. It was in the early 1930s that the Marine Corps evaluated the Pitcairn OP-1 autogyro to determine its potential military value. Field tested in Nicaragua during 1932, the four-bladed, stubby-winged aircraft was found suit able only for liaison purposes and medical evacua tion of the lightly wounded. Considered by those in Nicaragua as unsafe to fly when carrying loads in excess of 200 pounds, the OP-1 soon dis appeared from active Marine Corps inventory. Three years later the Marine Corps tested another autogyro, the Kellett OP-2, a wingless version similar to the OP-1, and found it to be equally unsatisfactory due to its small payload capability. The epitaph of the autogyro as a useful Marine Corps rotor-winged aircraft was written in 1936 by Lieutenant Colonel Roy S. Geiger, an early pioneer in Marine aviation who had served as a pilot in World War I and in the ground forces in Nicaragua, the Philippines and China.

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