PV-3 helicopter hovering over ground during test flight, Pennsylvania, 1945

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Photograph. PV-3 helicopter hovering over ground during test flight. Official Caption: "Rome 8/10/45. New type helicopter is largest built in U.S. / The PV-3 largest U.S. helicopter, is taken on a test flight over the eastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Designed specifically to fulfill U./S/ [sic] Coast Guard and Navy air-sea rescue and transport service requirements, the PV-3 is the first helicopter made for air-transport operations. The first economically practical craft of the type, the PV-3 is capable of carrying a crew of two and ten passengers in medium range operations. The ship carries two lifting rotors, one at either end, the first successful design using that plan. The streamlined fuselage is 48 feet (14 meters) long and 13 feet (3.9 meters) high. The new helicopter can land in an area 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter on land or water. Photo through U. S. I. S. Rome 43144-PPA for exhibit only. Approved by appropriate U.S. authority. Not for publication. (A and C Lists out) Rome 8/10/45." Pennsylvania, United States. 10 August 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.725
Date: 
08/10/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Helicopters--American--Pennsylvania
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Pennsylvania
Latitude: 
40.833
Longitude: 
-76.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Helicopters--American--Pennsylvania