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Aircraft Weaponization. Subsystems Photographs and Description.
Reference Handbook April 1968. PDF 64 Pages.
File Size: 4.7 MB
Added 05-02-2022.

H-60 For The USAF
Promotional Booklet approx 1980. PDF 14 Pages.
File Size: 4.9 MB
Added 05-02-2022.

The Aircraft Weaponization quick reference guide from 1968 covers a range of armament for US Army helicopters including guns and gun pods, grenade launchers, rockets, munition dispensers and other subsystems for the "Cobra", "Cheyenne", "Chinook", "Iroquois", "Raven", and "Kiowa" helicopters. Next up a Sikorsky H-60 "Black Hawk" brochure dating from approximately 1980 aimed at the US Air Force. Developed from the Model S-70 series the UH-60A entered US Army service in 1979 and with the USAF as the HH-60 "Pave Hawk" in 1982.

Sikorsky/United Aircraft TurboTrain. Rail Speed, Convenience, Comfort.
Brochure 1968. PDF 2 Pages.
File Size: 4.9 MB
Added 01-02-2022.

United Aircraft (Canada) TurboTrain TMT-7 D Diagrams
Reference Handbook April 1969. PDF 22 Pages.
File Size: 2.8 MB
Added 01-02-2022.

Now if you were thinking that these two train titles have little to do with anything you would be mistaken. The TurboTrain developed from 1965 by the Sikorsky Division of the United Aircraft Corporation with Canadian involvement was based on an earlier study and patents attributed to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Entering service in 1968 the gas turbine powered train with a straight line top speed of 270 km/h (limited to no higher than 150 km/h in actual service) promised to slash rail travel times and deliver train travel into the jet age. However it didn't quite work out as hoped and was withdrawn from service in the US in 1976 and in Canada in 1982.

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