Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-10 | Page 6 | 100th Helicopter Flies at Sikorsky

I Helicopter Flies at More Powerful Types Now In r I Production Nash Flies Its First Craft BRIDGEPORT CONN Helicopters more than of them have ha rolled off ofT the worlds world's first helicopter production line here at Aircraft division of United Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Air Air- craft Corporation As the helicopter an R R passed its Army flight tests Bernard L. L Whelan general manager revealed that production pro has been stepped up to the rate of five a week At the same time he said that the company already is starting production of the new larger more powerful R for which it has an order running into the hun hun- In addition it has completed the experimental ex ex- development dc and testing 0 of f another new model the R Hundreds more R have been ordered by bythe bythe bythe the and the US U.S. Navy Mr Ir Whelan said They will be built by Nash- Nash Keh to designs Reec Recently Nash announced that its first R 6 had passed AmI Array Army flight tests Deliveries will accelerate from now onN on N Now ow that wc weve c hit the magic mark mark and and the first is always the hardest hardest we we have ironed out the most troublesome flight and production bugs and learned how howl to build this completely new aircraft Mr r. r Whelan said The soundness of the design designas was as dramatically illustrated d when the first 4 was ordered to Wright ht Field Dayton Ohio for or acceptance tests May 1942 It made helicopter helicopter helicopter heli heli- copter history b by flying fling the 61 miles helicopters are in use with five fie military services US U.S. Army Air Forces US U.S. Nay Navy US U.S. Coast Guard British Royal Roal Nay Navy and British Royal Roal Air Force Alread Already they have seen act active c duty in theatres as widely separated as Alaska and India They hold all official and unofficial al helicopter records New uses for the craft arc are coming coming conning com conn- ing to light tight every ery da day Recently the Coast CoastGuard CoastGuard CoastGuard Guard demonstrated the practicability of the helicopter as a rescue craft at sea The helicopter took off from the deck of or a a. Coast Guard cutter and flew o er to several men drifting in rubber life rafts Hovering 30 feet above water the pilot lowered a chair by a power winch whisked one of the themen themen themen men up to the R 4 and returned with him to the cutter In nine minutes the helicopter picked up four men by this method an average average average aver aver- age of a little over two minutes minute per man