And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
37th Engineer Group had one, 1960's, based at Fliegerhorst Army Airfield near Hanau. Noisy riding inside.
ReplyDeleteAre you thinking 'live-aboard', CW?
ReplyDeleteUgly as sin. Noisy as hell. Two giant radial engines driving that beast.
ReplyDeleteIt looks to be a heavy lift chopper, as much as the Skycrane?
ReplyDeleteThis was the box the Sky Crane came in. Actually, the S-64 grew out of this beast.
DeleteLooks British. So ugly even the Soviets knew better.
ReplyDeleteSikorsky. I saw one at the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia. That was a good museum with a lot to see.
ReplyDeleteIn the Corps, this was the original Jolly Green Giant.
ReplyDeleteThey have a Marine Corps version of this monstrosity at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola Fl. It is outside in the side lot. They are HUGE!!!
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