The Forgotten Bell HSL-1: US Navy's First All-Weather Anti-Submarine Warfare Helicopter
Product code 094261270X
Series Naval Fighters Number 70
Publisher/Brand Ginter
Author Steve Ginter
Format a4
No. Pages 88
Version Soft cover
Language English
Category Aviationbooks
Subcategory US » US Helicopters
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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. Three XHSL-1 were ordered the first of these flying on March 4, 1953, followed by a production contract for 78, including 18 destined for the Britain's Fleet Air Arm.
