Kaman HH-43 Huskie - Olympic Flight Museum - Olympic Air Show

Video recorded 6/18/2022
The Kaman HH-43 Huskie was a helicopter with intermeshing rotors used by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and the United States Marine Corps from the 1950s until the 1970s. It was primarily used for aircraft firefighting and rescue in the close vicinity of air bases but was later used as a short-range overland search and rescue aircraft during the Vietnam War.
In 1947 Anton Flettner, a German aviation engineer, was brought to New York in the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. He was the developer of Germany's Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri" (Hummingbird), a helicopter employing the "synchropter" principle of intermeshing rotors, a unique design principle that dispenses with the need for a tail rotor. Flettner settled in the US and became the chief designer of the Kaman company, where he designed new helicopters using the synchropter principle.
The Huskie had an unusual intermeshing contra-rotating twin-rotor arrangement with control effected by servo-flaps. The first prototype flew in 1947 and was adopted by the US Navy as the HTK-1 with a 240 hp Lycoming O-435-4 flat-six piston engine. In 1954, in an experiment by Kaman and the US Navy, one HTK-1 was modified and flew with its piston engine replaced by two turbine engines, becoming the world's first twin-turbine helicopter. A much more powerful 600 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial piston engine was used for the far heavier HOK-1, HUK-1, and H-43A versions for the Marines, Navy, and Air Force, respectively. The Air Force later adopted versions with a single turboshaft engine: the HH-43B and HH-43F.

[@freddythamesblack8479]

Many capabilities of a helicopter 🚁

[@rogeroday9408]

The most fascinating thing to see on this Helo standing in front looking at the rotors as they spin up. Freaky looking.

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カマンだー。テイルローターレスの独特のメインローター配置。このメインローターが起こす独特の音。
久々に聞きました。
ありがとうございます。

[@viperq]

The father of the KMAX.

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정말 멋진 기술 교차반전 로터 헬리콥터

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

*MCDONNELL DOUGLAS: **_"We created NOTAR -- a helicopter with no tailrotor."_*
*ANTON FLETTNER & CHARLES KAMAN: **_"Hold our beers...."_*
🤭🤭🤭