H-37 & H-43 Working Warbirds

[Craig59]

Larry,

Any close-ups of the few S-55/H-19 airframes to the extreme left in the first photo of the series above? They're probably now amongst the group in storage near Coolidge, AZ.

Always enjoy seeing photos of helicopter warbirds. Thanks!

[Obergrafeter]

The longer I look at those pictures of the Huskie the more confussed I become on how those rotors can rotate and not kill everybody in the county.

[Jerry O'Neill]

Check these videos out to see how those blades move.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2kEHCww ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXcZ-YCdp4

Jerry

[Obergrafeter]

Still looks scary!

[Larry Wielgosz]

Sorry but the photos show H-34 (S-58s) not H-19s (S-55s). In regards to the H-43 - intermeshing of the blades is all in the gearbox. I'd be more worried about the wooden blades and always, always how low those blades come to the ground.

Larry

[Nathan]

It is sad the H-37's have been scrapped but I am puzzled because I looked at it on google map a overhead view of the AMARC and found the 2-3 dozen H-37's. This was just a few months ago! I figured this was the same group of H-37's that pictures of can be found in "50 years of the desert Boneyard". The H-37 is my favorite. Never saw one in real life yet but I still like them! I find it interesting a company from PA owned them. Maybe I should contact them!

I have enjoyed this thread a lot and hope it continues.

[SIDSIKO]

The guy who owned all the H-37's, was a guy called Peter West, I believe, who died some years ago. At one time, there were ambitious plans to rework those machines and have them out in China, doing lifting work, but it came to nothing. So, while they were sat in the yard at Tucson, they were clocking up rent. When nobody could claim ownership, or pay the rent, they went through the shredder, apart from at least one example promised to the Inernational Helicopter Museum in England and I believe one more example.

Interesting note. The Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola aquired an example and had JH Helicopters make it airworthy. They flew it to NAS Pensacola, from Tucson, where the museum towed it away to its parking spot at the rear of the museum, opened the clam doors and left it open to the elements.

[mustangdriver]

I was at Pensacola not long ago. She has all of her doors closed, and is about to come indoors for good into the new building once it is up. They are building it now.