Registration / Serial: | 44-21908 |
Alternate Serial: | 421908 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Kellett R-8 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Kellett R-8 |
Aircraft Version: | Kellett XR-8A |
C/n (msn): | [ 44-21908 ] |
Operator Titles: | USA - Air Force |
Location: | Not known |
Region / Country: | Pennsylvania, United States |
Photo Date: | March 1945 to December 1949 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Photo ID: | 393860Submit Correction |
View count: | 620 |
This is the second prototype of the Kellett XR-8, the XR-8A, which had rounded tailfins. It had two-bladed intermeshing rotors first, but these were replaced by three-bladed rotors soon. In a sequence of photos by Rudy Arnold, it is flagged down by a Philadelphia motorcycle cop at a 25 mph speed limit sign - much the same joke as seen in photo 363024. Flying the troublesome Kellett helicopters was not fun at all, but it is not clear when both XR-8s flew for the last time. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution
Registration / Serial: | 44-21908 |
Alternate Serial: | 421908 |
Aircraft Version: | Kellett XR-8A |
C/n (msn): | [ 44-21908 ] |
Operator Titles: | USA - Air Force |
Location: | Not known | Region / Country: | Pennsylvania, United States |
Photo Date: | March 1945 to December 1949 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Registration / Serial: | 44-21908 |
Alternate Serial: | 421908 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Kellett R-8 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Kellett R-8 |
Aircraft Version: | Kellett XR-8A |
C/n (msn): | [ 44-21908 ] |
Operator Titles: | USA - Air Force |
Location: | Not known |
Region / Country: | Pennsylvania, United States |
Photo Date: | March 1945 to December 1949 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
Photo ID: | 393860Submit Correction |
View count: | 620 |
This is the second prototype of the Kellett XR-8, the XR-8A, which had rounded tailfins. It had two-bladed intermeshing rotors first, but these were replaced by three-bladed rotors soon. In a sequence of photos by Rudy Arnold, it is flagged down by a Philadelphia motorcycle cop at a 25 mph speed limit sign - much the same joke as seen in photo 363024. Flying the troublesome Kellett helicopters was not fun at all, but it is not clear when both XR-8s flew for the last time. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution
Registration / Serial: | 44-21908 |
Alternate Serial: | 421908 |
Aircraft Version: | Kellett XR-8A |
C/n (msn): | [ 44-21908 ] |
Operator Titles: | USA - Air Force |
Location: | Not known | Region / Country: | Pennsylvania, United States |
Photo Date: | March 1945 to December 1949 |
Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |