Sikorsky S-61F prototype and compound helicopter projects

[hesham]

Hi,

a hot helicopter project of 1961.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%201007.html

 

[mil]

Someone has more information on design Sikorsky S-61F. I would like to have more pictures than well-known on the Internet. Thanks

 

[Jemiba]

From AviationWeek 1965:

 

[mil]

Jemiba
Thanks for pictures Sikorsky S-61F, I have enjoyed very much, this good addition in my library if will is at whom pictures to me pleasantly. Thanks

 

[Jemiba]

From Aviation Week January 1965 a development of the S-61F as a stoppable rotor
VSTOL aircraft:

 

[borovik]

Someone has more information on design Sikorsky S-61F. I would like to have more pictures than well-known on the Internet. Thanks

Reconstruction from PK Aero Revue, and photos of Air Pictorial

 

[Caravellarella]

Oh no, I've gone back into a generic topic

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French about an unidentified Sikorsky high-speed helicopter "project"......

The article comes from the 30th June 1961 issue of Les Ailes......

Terry (Caravellarella)

 

[fightingirish]

One of a number of Sikorsky design studies for a large compound helicopter.
Source: Flying Review International, January 1965, Volume 20, Number 5, page 8

 

[hesham]

Hi,

A great series of Sikorsky S-61 developments.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/263542.pdf

 

[hesham]

And;

 

[Jemiba]

Hello Hesham, used your link, but it led me to a paper about plastic/composite structures ...
Cannot improve the quality, probably it isn't better in the original source, but I stitched
the parts together.

 

[hesham]

Excellent my dear Jemiba,thank you.

 

[hesham]

Hi,


here is a Sikorsky S-61F NH-3A,Who can collect the pieces;


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/726764.pdf

 

[hesham]

And;

 

[Stargazer]

Who can collect the pieces

As a matter of fact I did, back in 2012. These images rang a bell, so I went to my S-61F folder and found the following (only did one of them, though):

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Skyblazer.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/665427.pdf

 

[zebedee]

BBC Horizon documentary from 1982, some footage of the S61F 45 mins in... rest of the film is pretty interesting as well...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VOttDBZDWI

Zeb

 

[hesham]

From Ailes 30/6/1961.

 

[ZacYates]

So. Any ideas as to what happened to this airframe after testing ended?

 

[ZacYates]

Also, are there any colour photos available of BuNo.148033 as the NH-3A with wings?

 

[hesham]

So. Any ideas as to what happened to this airframe after testing ended?

Frankly,I don't know,but I will check.

 

[Apophenia]

So. Any ideas as to what happened to this airframe after testing ended?

FWIW, 08 Aug 1973 BuAer 148033 c/n 61-011 struck of charge by NPRO (Naval Plant Representative Officer), Research and Technology, Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT.

 

[ZacYates]

That's my birthday! Well, I came along 14yr later but still. Thank you for that, Apophenia! It's sad to know she no longer exists.

I asked about colour photos as I'd like to build a 1/72 model of her in full compound mode and found this fantastic 1/48 build, which has a red spine. But the one colour photo I've found - sadly I have no attribution so am hesitant to share - shows that area to be black.