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The Chinese looked very well at the Sikorsky S-70 when Harbin developed the Z-20 medium-lift helicopter. The resemblance is striking! The cabin windows are a bit different and the underside of the fuselage seems to be flatter. Other differences are even more subtle. (photo: 中国新闻社/WikiMedia)
It is obvious that HESA lend a lot from the Bell 206 when it developed the Shahed 278. The Shahed 278 has in particular a differently shaped fuselage, without the typical pointed bent in the rear, and less cruved cockpit windows. Also, the horizontal stabilisers are placed on top of the vertical fin. (photo: Shahram Sharifi/WikiMedia)
Hiller model HJ-1, also known as YH-32 and XHOE-1, is a two seat helicopter with ramjet engines at the tips of the two blade main rotor. The main rotor has two smaller, stabilising blades as well. Some versions have horizontal stabilisers with anhedral, as shown here, other have no stabilisers or only a vertical fin.
This small helicopter has a small fuselage with an engine in the rear. In most versions the engine is not covered. Behind is a strut braced tail boom with a two blade tail rotor at the end. There is a single fin pointing up under 45 degrees, and on some versions a ventral fin down.
This helicopter is easily recognisable by its egg-shaped fuselage with a rounded front and engine placed in the pointed rear, which ends in the exhaust. Also typical is the narrow tail boom with a large fillet between the fuselage and tail boom. The skids are quite towards the front. The tail configuration differs per subtype. There is also a version without tail rotor, described separately.
The general appearance of the KUH-1 and MUH-1 remind of the (Super) Puma and Cougar, like the nose and engines placed on top of the fuselage, in front of the main rotor. It has a fixed wheeled gear with a double nose wheel. The main gear is attached to the fuselage with two struts, a short and a long one. Two long narrow cabin windows, directly behin the cockpit, are another typical feature. (photo: Jang Su Lee/WikiMedia)
Many features of the Kaman Huskie are unique in a single helicopter: a short boxy fuselage with two tail booms each holding a vertical stabiliser, intermeshing two blade main rotors and four main landing gear legs.
The side view silhouette of this single seat helicopter may remind you of a tropical fish, and the narrow fuselage is also like that of a fish. Furthermore typical for the K-Max are the rectangular end plates on the horizontal stabilisers, tilted forward, and the rectangular vertical fin tilted rearward.
These experimental Kaman helicopters are the models on which the intermeshing main rotors were first tested. It has an open cockpit and open frame fuselage, with an engine behind the rotor assembly. At the rear is a vertical stabiliser.
Kaman is famous for intermeshing main rotor blades, but the Seasprite is an exception. It is more conventional with two engines in nacelles attached to the side of the rotor gear box. Typical are the two wheel main gears that retract forward in the lower side of the fuselage.
