Название: Naval Fighters 70 - The Forgotten Bell HSL: U.S. Navy's First All-Weather ASW Helicopter
Автор: Tommy H. Thomason
Издательство: Steve Ginter Books
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 92
Размер: 67,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Bell company won a Navy design competition in June 1950 for a helicopter specifically for anti-submarine warfare. This design, Bell Model 61, was the only Bell helicopter using the tandem-rotor layout ; it was powered by a 2400 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-50 engine and was intended to carry air-to-surface missiles such as the Fairchild Petrel, as well as dipping ASDIC.