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PIASECKI HELICOPTER CORPORATION |
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| USA |
Formed in 1946 from the P-V Engineering Forum which
had completed several rotary-wing contracts for NACA
and the U.S. Navy. The latter ordered an XHRP-1 helicopter
which flew in 1945; following successful tests it was placed
in production. Further orders followed for XHJP-1 tandemrotor
helicopters for USN shipboard operations and the
large XH-16, which had a fuselage of DC-4 size. In 1956
the company became
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