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Does any one has any info on the hughes XH-17 sky crane?

Its on of the biggest helicopters in 1952-1955
I just need any information via you, internet, or even blue prints!
I highly doubt that blueprints are probably destroyed


On further search, beyond wikipedia, I found this:
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/ mcdonnel_crane.php

There are some very good photos and comments from folks who have more info on the chopper.

I also found:

The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, 1952)

myvideotube.fileave.com A sequence from Howard Hawks's second western, The Big Sky, from a screenplay by frequent John Ford collaborator ...

The Big Sky 1952 Trailer

Kirk Douglas stars in this well-loved Western,. Frontiersman Jim Deakins (Douglas) is travelling up the wide Missouri river with his best friend ...

'Stress-free' time under the Big Sky

Lance Cpl. Kenton Kurz thrust his right leg out to the side at each step as he limped briskly through the sloping yard to the horse pasture. He was eager for the morning horseback ride, despite a nerve-damaged right leg that sometimes stings like bees.

“I took shrapnel in both my legs and both my arms,” said Kurz, a tall, rail-thin Marine with an engaging smile and closely cropped blond hair.

“The doctors are amazed I’m walking,” he said as he described stepping on an improvised explosive device, or IED, while on patrol in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

“I got real lucky. God had his hand on me that day. Not many people step on 25 pounds of explosive and don’t lose their legs,” he said.

Since triggering the explosion in early May, he has gone through five surgeries.

“I turned 21 while I was still in a wheelchair,” he said matter-of-factly, without a trace of feeling sorry for himself.

In June, he left the hospital in a wheelchair. He graduated to a walker, then to a pair of crutches, and then a single crutch.

The Big Sky 1952 - Bookshelf


The Films of Kirk Douglas
287 pages
The Films of Kirk Douglas

The Big Sky 1952 A Winchester Pictures Production, distributed by RKO Radio. Produced and directed by Howard Hawks. Written by Dudley Nichols, ...

Fifty years after The big sky, new perspectives on the fiction and films of A.B. Guthrie, Jr
330 pages
Fifty years after The big sky, new perspectives on the fiction and films of A.B. Guthrie, Jr

Paul Hughes, "The Big Sky" Louisville Courier-Journal, 14 September 1952. 21. Telegram, Carl Brandt to Ray Stark, 9 January 1951, Guthrie Papers — Kentucky. ...

The Big Sky 1952 - News


Ditching a Playoff to Save the Rose Bowl
Ditching a Playoff to Save the Rose Bowl She'd like to see the Pac-12 Big Ten secede from the BCS to make that happen. Photo: AP. Within weeks, the conference commissioners and university presidents who run the Bowl Championship Series are expected to adopt a four-team playoff,

Three days in May
The holiday used to be on her actual birthday, but since 1952 has been celebrated on the first Monday before May 25 (why not on or before May 24? I don't know. I don't make the rules. If I did, it would be a four-day weekend).

Explosions In The Sky – “Postcard From 1952″ Video
Explosions In The Sky – “Postcard From 1952″ Video Unless we're counting the entire five-season run of Friday Night Lights, triumphant instrumental churn-rockers Explosions In The Sky had never made a music video before last year. They're now on their third one, following “Last Known Surroundings” and

Dean Smith parlayed athletic skills into Hollywood career
By Evan Ren Smith's athleticism, which saw him win a gold medal with the 400 relay team in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, was a useful tool on the movie set. Here, he is shown hurdling a horse during a stunt sequence in the 1960 film "The Alamo.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a treasure of native creatures, plants ...
Few predicted its success when it opened on Labor Day 1952. It was miles west of town, in a desert that few people understood. Carr learned his trade in New York, where he helped build a trailside museum for the American Museum of Natural History.