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Description
| Manufacturer: | Boeing/Vertol | |
| Base model: | H-62 | |
| Designation: | CH-62 | |
| Nickname: | HLH Project | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1948-Present | |
| Basic role: | Helicopter | |
| Modified Mission: | Transport | |
| Status: | Experimental | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| United States Army Aviation Museum | Ozark | Alabama |
CH-62 on display
United States Army Aviation Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Robert Enterprise, AL | I worked at the museum as a volunteer when the CH-62 came in. I saw alot of the parts that came in with the airframe.
I, like so many of you, would like to have kept the CH-62 around, however the airframe was never completed. Most of the fairings were fabricated at the museum using fiberglass and very thin gauge sheetmetal. I went inside the fuselage and up to the cockpit. There was very little work done on the inside at the factory. Also, the museum had to fake a complete rotorhead (the one on the back) because only one was made. Plus the helicopter was too big to fit inside any of the available museum buildings, so it had to stay outside. Rather than complain about what was lost, save what is available. Make donations to your aviation museums' new building funds so that this won't happen to anything else. Steven Maxham and I never saw eye-to-eye on alot of things, but the CH-62 would have been a money pit to try to save. The best way to save the CH-62 would have been if the program was never cancelled. 09/27/2007 @ 09:09 [ref: 18025] |
| F. White GSO, NC | That was around the time they were moving the rotting aircraft from the fenced lot out to the new display area. The fact has already been established the XCH-62 had been retaining water for years and well into rotting herself, now, hook a tow bar to the nose gear of the beast and try moving it.... what do you think's going to happen?
I'm sure they were as careful as they knew to be, but you never can tell exactly when an aircraft is going to break in half, right? *they didn't think that would happen* Yet there it lay. In it's condition, repairing it would mean a rebuild... a rebuild of a replica? They couldn't move it and they couldn't fix it, what else was left? But who knows, can anyone confirm the disposition of the pieces? 06/02/2007 @ 20:16 [ref: 16716] |
| Shawn Carmody Taylor, TX | I'd love to hear what the reason was for destroying a big part of Army Aviation history like that!!! I hope the moron(s) in question at least have a decent excuse for why this was done. 11/01/2006 @ 12:58 [ref: 14631] |
| Shawn Carmody Taylor, TX | I'd love to hear what the reason was for destroying a big part of Army Aviation history like that!!! I hope the moron(s) in question at least have a decent excuse for why this was done. 11/01/2006 @ 12:58 [ref: 14630] |
| Tom , AL | The helicopter was neat to see, however the comments by the curator were quite true. Up close one could see that it was compltely rotten and ready to fall apart at any moment. Perhaps 20 years ago if it had been taken care of, then it would have been worth saving. It was un-movable and practically fell apart all by itself. 10/26/2006 @ 17:29 [ref: 14581] |
| Erik Sleutelberg , OTH | Disgrace! I read the museum's explanation at http://tinyurl.com/ar45b and I guess they were just following orders - sir! "There is a general misconception within the civilian aviation community regarding this item." That's sad, isn't it? While mr. Maxham goes out of his way to prove his theoretical point aviation lovers worldwide weep for this loss. Now who's right?
Erik 08/16/2006 @ 01:02 [ref: 13895] |
| Frank A Howard , NC | My heart sank when I found out that the XCH-62 was destroyed. I worked at Boeing/Vertol during the HLH project. In particular I worked on the model 347. I watched both aircraft 'grow". I can't comprehend why this happened. A piece of history lost forever! Surely some other facility would have taken it. 08/14/2006 @ 17:32 [ref: 13885] |
| David Haynes Creswell, OR | I've just seen photos of the CH-62's demise. I've been flying BV-107 and BV-234's for a company in Oregon for the past 30 years. Some of us have had conversations regarding the lack of heavy lift helicopters and what a boon the CH-62 could have been to our business. My only question is who was the retard or group of retards that had the prototype example destroyed. I realise that the US Army has never been the sharpest knife in the countries draw but the guy that approved this is way down the food chain. Why in the hell did you not allow another museum have the airframe.
Ashamed to be an ex-army pilot.... 08/14/2006 @ 16:54 [ref: 13882] |
| Douglas Huntzinger , CA | There are a lot of old things in museums. I guess we're in for a lot of destruction at the Air& Space Museum in Washington D. C. The Spirit of St. Louis is an old piece of junk as is the Wright brothers Flyer.
Very sad and stupid. 07/09/2006 @ 15:07 [ref: 13689] |
| Jonathan Hayes Hermitage, TN | Its a damn shame to have the XCH-62, and other rare birds like her, to meet such a horrible fate. 02/16/2006 @ 14:18 [ref: 12521] |
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