British helicopter design from 1950s acquired by US maybe?

[Liberator]

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/m ... +the+Brits!

Could this helicopter been the origins for the UH-60 warbird we know today?

[WallyB]

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/message/1338200690/UH-60+Blackhawk+design+was+STOLEN+from+the+Brits!

Could this helicopter been the origins for the UH-60 warbird we know today?

Westland Westminster, quite bigger than the H-60 and was pretty much a copy/version of the S-56.
Just another in the long list of British might-have-beens of the 1950-60s.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng ... inster.php

[The Inspector]

Why not 'borrow'? In the late-ish '50's several Boeing folks paid a visit to De Havillands and the DH folks showed them all the cool stuff and ideas they were working on for a three engined jet airliner. Later the folks from DH paid a reciprocal visit and got a grand tour of-----just about nothing. Very shortly after Boeing announced the start up for a new airplane to be called the 727 that used a lot of the ideas DH had shown them. In the mid 70's Hawker-Siddeley was working on a twin engined airliner idea using two RB 199 high bypass engines and around 160 seats that the somewhat later 757 strongly resembles. The TU-204 resembles the 757 too.

Things that make you go HMMMMM

[JohnB]

You have it backwards.
Sikorsky copied Westland?

As noted above, It's the Westland Westminister.
It had license built drivetrain from...guess what?
The S-56/CH-37.

Really aside from the (very) general layout (does that mean all Cessnas copied Piper? All Airbusses copied Boeing? etc, etc), only a nationalist fanbody would seriously think it predated the Blackhawk by a decade.

Here's a hint...look at the rear fuselage of the Blackhawk. Obviously copied from the H-34. Obviously Sikorsky was copying from itself. Alert the media!