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Hughes Helicopters OH-6 Cayuse nicknamed Loach is a single-engine light helicopter with a four-bladed main rotor used for personnel transport, escort and attack missions, and observation is now available in a wood model helicopter by Mastercraft.
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Product Description
Wingspan: 3"
Length: 10"
Code: NC09094
This hand-carved OH-6 Cayuse Wood Model Helicopter in New Collector Series is a mahogany wood display model helicopter, done by highly experienced craftsmen, a work of art hand-painted with great concern for details and accuracy.
Shortly after production began, the OH-6 began to demonstrate what kind of an impact it would have on the world of helicopters. The OH-6 set 23 world records for helicopters in 1966 for speed, endurance and time to climb. On March 23, 1966, Jack Schwiebold set the closed circuit distance record in a YOH-6A at Edwards Air Force Base, California. He flew without landing for 1,739.96 mi (2,800.20 km). And on April 7, 1966, Robert Ferry set the long distance world record for helicopters. He flew from Culver City, California to Ormond Beach, Florida, covering a total of 1,923.08 nm (2,213.04 mi, 3,561.55 km).
In 1964 the US Department of Defense issued a memorandum directing that all US Army fixed-wing aircraft be transferred to the US Air Force, while the US Army transitioned to rotor-wing aircraft. The US Army's fixed wing airplane, the O-1 Bird Dog, which was utilized for artillery observation and reconnaissance, would be replaced by the OH-6A helicopter. The aircraft entered service in 1966, arriving in the Vietnam War thereafter. The pilots dubbed the new helicopter Loach, a word created by pronunciation of the acronym of the program that spawned the aircraft, LOH (light observation helicopter).
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