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...Piasecki Helicopter Corp. was founded by Frank Piasecki, 31, with four helpers, ten years ago in a Philadelphia store. Last week he had 1,700 people working for him on more than $100 million in military orders, many of them for his HRP-2 "flying banana," a 54-ft., twin-rotored machine which carries 16 combat soldiers and a two-man crew. Other Piasecki models: the 20-passenger H-21, equipped with pontoons for rescue work on snow, ice, water or marsh; the experimental XH-16, with a fuselage as big as a DC-4, and a detachable cargo...
This week, with no rescue yet in sight, the Navy joined the operation, sent the carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...
...school mess" or the state would take over the school system. Just to make sure, he sent Clair Taylor, an able assistant in the Department of Public Instruction, to see that the board picked a superintendent who could be trusted. "We're on the spot," President Frank L. Piasecki told his board...
...Frank Piasecki had done every bit of test flying of the experimental craft. What shook airmen was that when the tests began he had a total of only 14 hours in the air, all in airplanes. When he made his first public demonstration, his flying time (both plane and helicopter) totaled only 30 hours...
...Engineering Forum of Philadelphia had its sleek, 1,000-lb. helicopter (one of more than 20 such projects in the aircraft industry) really flying (see cut). Its pilot: Frank N. Piasecki, president...