The Wright Cyclone powered all sorts of notable aircraft to include the Dauntless, Wildcat, S-2 and T-28. Also produced as a diesel by Caterpillar for the M4 Sherman tank. I heard stories back in the 70s and 80s of people buying new in crate Cyclone tank engines for a song and then cannibalizing them for identical parts on R-1820s in warbird aircraft.Looks like she used the same engine as the B-17 and C-47
Sikorsky H-34 - Wikipedia
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Flying an H-34 is way up there on my bucket list.
Way up there is right. You are literally siting on top of everything in that aircraft. Having heard lots about what Vietnam pilots watched for through the Huey chin bubble, I wonder what it was like landing a H-34 amid mortar shell holes and in rice paddies and elephant grass.
I think your ass is about 8 feet above the ground when landing!
Bet it was a turbine conversion.
I can't tell from this aspect. Only way I can tell is the exhaust, located in roughly the same spot as the recip left side of the nose.
I think @IKE might have flown that bird (or one like it) at Pax River.
I posted that pic here when I took it. Someone knew the company operating it. Not sure if it was Ike. Too lazy to search for it.
I spent an afternoon refueling at some air field in Arizona that had some old 34 frames sitting around, They do sit up high.
Yep.. TPS in '14 was bringing a guy up from GA. It's technically an S-55 licensed by Sikorsky to (I forget, Japanese maybe) company, with most built in the '90s.
Great perspective. I once talked to WW II ace John Purdy for a long time. He said something similar about the P-38. Said he often put an engine between him and the enemy. Came home single engine but alive more than once.
Works with a copilot too
