| |
|
|
 |
| Stuff
You Can Buy |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
| Other
Stuff |
| |
 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Piasecki/Vertol CH-21 Workhorse
|
click on photo for more images
|
|
The
Piasecki PD-22 was a development of the U.S. Navy's
HRP-2. First flown in 1952, the U.S. Air Force designated this
helicopter the H-21 Workhorse.
The U.S. Army also ordered the H-21 naming it the Shawnee.
The Shawnee could carry 20 fully-equipped troops into combat, which
it did in Vietnam.
In production from 1954 - 1959, the H-21 was flown
by the armed forces of the U.S., Canada, France and West
Germany. The H-21 was also known as the Flying Banana. |
| |
|
|
| Specifications
(CH-21C) |
|
Designations |
|
|
|
|
 | Type: Transport Helicopter |
| Engine: one 1,425 hp (1063 kW) Wright
R-1820-103 radial piston engine |
|
|
| PD-22: Piasecki model number |
| Model 43: Vertol model number |
| H-21: U.S. Air Force and Army
designation (before 1962) |
| CH-21: U.S. Military designation (after
1962) |
|
| |
|
|
|
Related
Pages |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
