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.
Friday, September 5, 2025
The Piasecki HRP Rescuer, also called Harp, tandem-rotor transport or rescue helicopter, Circa 1947
Back in the 1960s I saw them occasionally. Most recent was at the Chino airshow in, I think, 2016. A private bird, just out of a restoration, flown up from San Diego County. He made a perfect hover taxi along the runway then the taxiways. It was very cool to see.
Frank Piaseki is worth your time to read about, or at least, look at the variety of very unusual aircraft he made https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/11/frank-piaseki-polish-immigrants-kid.html
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ReplyDeleteBack in the 1960s I saw them occasionally. Most recent was at the Chino airshow in, I think, 2016. A private bird, just out of a restoration, flown up from San Diego County. He made a perfect hover taxi along the runway then the taxiways. It was very cool to see.
ReplyDeleteThe ignorant turds in the Pentagon got rid of all dual rotor aircraft in favor of the deadly "Osprey"...
ReplyDeleteI guess that Army Special Ops still uses the UH-47 but since 2020, they stopped purchasing any more.
Frank Piaseki is worth your time to read about, or at least, look at the variety of very unusual aircraft he made https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/11/frank-piaseki-polish-immigrants-kid.html
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