Kaman HH-43 Huskie

En Huskie-helikopter hjälper till vid en brand.

Kaman HH-43 Huskie var en militärhelikopter som producerades i flera varianter. Den användes av United States Air Force, United States Navy och av United States Marine Corps från 1950-talet till 1970-talet, bland annat under Vietnamkriget. Förutom USA har även Pakistan, Thailand, Marocko och Colombia köpt och använt helikoptern.

Varianter

XHTK-1
HTK-1
HTK-1G
HTK-1K
XHOK-1
HOK-1
HUK-1
H-43A
HH-43A
H-43B
H-43A
HH-43B
UH-43C
OH-43D
TH-43E
HH-43F
QH-43G

Köpare

Colombia Colombia
Iran Iran
  • Imperial Iranian Air Force
Marocko Marocko
Pakistan Pakistan
  • Pakistan Air Force
Thailand Thailand
USA USA
  • United States Air Force
  • United States Marine Corps
  • United States Navy

Helikoptrarna idag

Kaman HOK-1 (OH-43D) Huskie vid Pima Air & Space Museum
  • Hill Aerospace Museum, Utah har en HH-43 för visning.
  • Air Mobility Command Museum, Delaware, har en HH-43 för visning.
  • Helikoptermuseet i Bückeburg, Tyskland, har en HH-43 för visning.
  • Pakistan Air Force museum i Karachi, Pakistan, har en HH-43 Huskie för visning.
  • Museum of Aviation, Georgia, har en HH-43A för visning.
  • Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England, reparerar en HH-43B.
  • The Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia, Washington, har en HH-43B Huskie för visning.[1]
  • Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas, har en H-43B för visning.
  • Royal Thai Air Force Museum, Don Muang AFB har en Huskie-helikopter för visning.
  • Castle Air Museum, Atwater, Kalifornien, har en HH-43F för visning.
  • National Museum of the United States Air Force, Ohio, har en HH-43F för visning.
  • New England Air Museum har en HH-43F för visning.
  • The Flying Leathernecks Museum, Kalifornien, har en Huskie-helikopter för visning. Den är ett lån från National Museum of Naval Aviation, Florida.
  • Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona har helikoptern BuNo 139974. Den är också ett lån från National Museum of Naval Aviation.
  • U.S. Army Aviation Museum, Alabama, har en Navy BuNo 138101. Den förvarades tidigare vid National Museum of Naval Aviation, Florida.
  • Carolinas Aviation Museum, vid Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, har en HOK-1.

Dessutom finns det många Huskie-helikoptrar i privat ägo runt om i världen.

Referenser

  • Chiles, James R. The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter. New York: Bantam Books, 2007. ISBN 0-553-80447-2.
  • Francillon, René J. McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920: Volume II. London: Putnam, 1997. ISBN 0-85177-827-5.
  • Frawley, Gerard. The International Directory of Civil Aircraft, 2003-2004. Fyshwick, Canberra, Act, Australia: Aerospace Publications Pty Ltd., 2003, p. 155. ISBN 1-875671-58-7.
  • Munson, Kenneth. Helicopters and other Rotorcraft since 1907. London: Blandford Publishing, 1968. ISBN 978-0-7137-0493-8.
  • Thicknesse, P. Military Rotorcraft (Brassey's World Military Technology series). London: Brassey's, 2000. ISBN 1-85753-325-9.
  • Wragg, David W. Helicopters at War: A Pictorial History. London: R. Hale, 1983. ISBN 0-7090-0858-9.

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Författare/Upphovsman: Brandon Walts from Gainesville, Licens: CC BY-SA 2.0
A former U.S. Marine Corps Kaman HOK-1 Huskie helicopter (BuNo 139974) at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona (USA), in 2006. The HOK-1 was redesignated OH-43D in 1962. It wears the markings of Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), nicknamed "The Nighthawks", based at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico, Virginia (USA). The squadron was and is responsible for the helicopter transportation of the president of the United States, vice president, cabinet members and VIPs.
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U.S. Air Force fire protection specialists fight a fire as an HH-43B Huskie helicopter hovers overhead to create a continuous downward air current, assisting the crew members. The crew is assigned to Detachment 8, 38th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Cam Ranh Bay Air Base, Vietnam.