NASM's Sikorsky JRS-1

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2626

JRS-1 1-J-1

https://www.si.edu/object/sikorsky-jrs- ... 9610112000

JRS-1 in flight along Northern Coast of Molokai, T.H. July 17, 1940

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:53 am

Nice photos. Hopefully one day it can be restored.

Invader26 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:56 am **Posts:** 843

I like it in its current state given it's history

lucky52 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:41 pm

Anybody know where that in flight picture near the mountains was taken?

junkman9096 · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:44 pm **Posts:** 254

lucky52 wrote:

Anybody know where that in flight picture near the mountains was taken?

I'll guarantee you it was in and around Hawaii. There's a number of photos of a sister ship to be found in Google's Life Magazine Archives. Search under "Navy in Hawaii"
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/8a4ec705e1216028_large (check out the crewman in the forward hatch).
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/a0 ... 5410c.html
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a7d350a0682c1943_large

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2626

lucky52 wrote:

Anybody know where that in flight picture near the mountains was taken?

It's right under the pictures - "JRS-1 in flight along Northern Coast of Molokai, T.H. July 17, 1940".

Mark Sampson · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:02 pm **Posts:** 300

The JRS-1 doesn't look much different than when I saw it at Sliver Hill c.1990. "Ars longa, vita brevis", sure, but one would hope for some progress in thirty years. At least it's stored inside.

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