Wrecked rotors: Understanding rotorcraft accidents, 1935-1945

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 286-312

  Connor, Roger Douglas ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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1. The figure of more than 1,500 includes the following: 9x YG-1 series, 1x YG-2, 1x XOP-2, 7x O-60, 7x 0-61, 2x XR-1, 7x YR-1, 131x R-4, 250x R-5, 900x R-6, 2x XR-8, 2x XR-9, 2x R-10, 1x XHRP-X, 1x XHJD-1..
2. Service Department Records Section, Sikorsky Aircraft "History of the Sikorsky Model R-4B Helicopters" (November 21, 9145), National Air and Space Museum Archives, Sikorsky R-4B Technical File.
3. Air Force Historical Reseach Agency, Microfilm Reel B0680, "Supplemental Analysis No. 82: Helicopter Accidents (R-4, R-5, R-6), frame 788.
4. U.S. Army Air Forces Office of Statistical Control, Army Air Forces Statistical Digest (1945) 310.
5. "History of the ...".
6. These include a crash landing on a pedestrian on a crowded boardwalk, fuel exhaustion over Lake Michigan and a wire strike.
7. Peter W. Brooks Cierva Autogiros: The Development of Rotary Wing Flight (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988), 215.
8. National Archives and Record Administration, RG 342, Sarah Clark Files, RD 3304 Kellett YG-1 1935-36-37, "Report of Accident to YG-1 Autogiro", 3.
9. Gregory, 51.
10. RD 3304, "Conference on Crash of YG-1 Autogiro at Fort Bragg, Langley Field, VA, September 21, 1936."
11. H. F. Gregory The Helicopter: A Pictorial History (Cranbury, NJ: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1976) ,52.
12. RD 3304, "Report of Damage to YG-1 Autogiro Rotor Blades on February 9, 1937, 2.
13. Gregory, 57.
14. RD3304, "Crash of Kellett Autogiro YG-1".
15. National Archives and Record Administration, RG 342, Sarah Clark Files, RD 452.1-43 A.A.R.C. - Kellett Autogiro #37-378 Phila. Airport.
16. National Archives and Record Administration, RG 342, Sarah Clark Files, RD 3456 "A.A.R.C. Autogiro XR-2 #37-378 - Philadelphia, PA. 1941.
17. Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum Archives, Technical Files, Kellett XO-60, "Dave Driskill's Report on Accident to XO-60[sic] -2 at Philadelphia Airport, Sunday, June 27, 1943".
18. Frank Erickson, "Fishers of Men: The Story of the Development of Seagoing Helicopters", unpublished manuscript, 1972, National Air and Space Museum Library, 2-8.
19. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel A2053, Headquarters, Air Technical Service Command, "Memorandum Report TESCEP5E-1826 Sikorsky XR-4, YR-4B, XR-5, XR-6A and Platt-LePage XR-1A Type Helicopters."
20. Erickson, 2-12; Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel A2053, "Memorandum Report TSESE-2B1-1097 Final Report, YR-4A & YR-4B Helicopters, 31 October 1944.
21. Ibid, 2-14-2-15.
22. Ibid, 2-14.
23. Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum Archives, Technical Files, Kellett XO-60, "Dave Driskill's Report on Accident to XO-60[sic] -2 at Philadelphia Airport, Sunday, June 27, 1943".
24. National Archives and Record Administration, RG 342, Sarah Clark Files, RD 2816, Memo: "Accident to YR-4B Helicopter AAF No. 43-46500 on 26 May 1944" from Paul H. Kemmer, Colonel Air Corps, Chief Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division, dated 8 July 1944.
25. National Archives and Record Administration, RG 342, Sarah Clark Files, RD 2816 452.1-43, "YR-4B Helicopter Accident, 26 May 1944", Memo from Colonel H.Z. Bogert, Chief Technical Staff, Engineering Division.
26. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel A2053, Frame 788-790, "Supplemental Analysis No. 82, Helicopter Accidents (R-4, R-5, R-6).
27. Lane W. Smith "Flying Pogo Stick" Western Flying (November 1945), 39.
28. Erickson, 4-11-4-12.
29. George Wales "Hovering Over Paricutin" American Helicopter (January 1946), 10-12.
30. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel A2053, "Memorandum Report TSESA-3-1234 Final Report, XR-5 Aircraft, 10 January 1946.
31. C. W. Kuehne, "Technical Report No. 6162: Development of the G & A Model XH-9, XH-9A, and XH-9B Helicopters" (United States Air Force Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, January 1950), 1-2, 12.
32. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel A2053, "Memorandum Report on XR-9 Helicopter Accident on 21 June 1945".
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Rotary Wing Branch, (TSEOA-5) Aircraft Projects Section, Engineering Division, Air Materiel Command, "Summary of Rotary Wing Projects of Aircraft Projects Section (By Models), 1947, 38-41.
36. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel B0680, frame 1705.
37. National Archives and Record Administration, RG 18, Classified General Decimal Files, 1945, Box 731, Memo to Lt. Col Alan P. Tappan, Headquarters Army Air Forces from B. L. Wheelan, General Manager, Sikorsky Aircraft, dated June 2, 1944.
38. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Microfilm Reel, "Memorandum Report TSESE-2B1-1097 Final Report, YR-4A & YR-4B Helicopters, 31 October 1944.
39. Louis A. Carle "I Flew them in Combat" American Helicopter (January 1947), 10, 42-3; Phone Interview, Louis A. Carle with Fred Duncan, 11/19/2000 & 11/27/2000; Phone Interview, Robert W. Cowgill with Fred Duncan and Roger Connor, 01/30/2001 & 01/31/2001.
40. Frank Erickson, "Fishers of Men: The Story of the Development of Seagoing Helicopters", unpublished manuscript, 1972, National Air and Space Museum Library, 2-8-2-11.
41. Erickson, 2-15.
42. Erickson, 3-3.
43. Erickson, 3-5-3-6.
44. "Statement from Pilot of HOS 609 Involved in Accident at 1340-25 September, 1945".
45. "Statement of Crew Member if HOS 609 Involved in Accident at 1340 - 25 September, 1945".
46. R. S. Barnaby, Captain, USN "Statement Regarding HOS-1 Helicopter Crash Over Naval Hospital, Phila., on 25 Sept. 45".
47. http://www.odmp.org/officer/6364-autogiro-pilot-ned-d.-henderson (accessed April, 2010).