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TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopter(193 total words in this text)(2560 Reads)  The TH-57 is a derivative of the commercial Bell Jet Ranger 206. Although primarily used for training, these aircraft are also used for photo, chase and utility missions. Background The JetRanger was initially designed to compete in a U.S. Army light observation helicopter competition. Bell lost that competition but the 206 was commercially successful. The TH-57 Sea Ranger provides advanced (IFR) training to several hundred aviation students a year at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, Florida. General Characteristics Contractor: Bell Helicopter Textron. Date Deployed: First flight: 1961; Operational: 1968. Propulsion: One Allison 250-C20BJ turbofan engine. Length: Fuselage - 31 feet (9.44 meters); Rotors turning - 39 feet (11.9 meters). Height: 10 feet (3.04 meters). Rotor Diameter: 35 feet 4 inches (10.78 meters). Weight: 1595 pounds (725kg) empty, 3200 pounds (1455 kg) maximum take off. Airspeed: 138 miles (222 km) per hour maximum; 117 miles (188 km) per hour cruising. Ceiling: 18,900 feet (5,761 meters). Range: 368 nautical miles (420 statute miles, 676 km). Crew: One pilot, four students. |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
