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The long cabin variants of the Robinson R22 have a sort of pointed bent in the rear of the fuselage, around the engine that is covered compared to the smaller R22. The R44 and R66 retain the typical fairing around the long rotor mast, narrow tail boom and tail, and have no engine housing on top of the fuselage
The open frame tail boom with a small vertical fins with undefined shape, uncovered engine and the somewhat pointed nose are the key characteristics of this two blade helicopter. It also has small horizontal stabiliser.
This small helicopter seems to have a bathtub-like fuselage with a large multi framed bubble canopy on top and a tail boom sticking out of the rear. It has a three blade main rotor on a long mast behind the canopy, and a two blade tail rotor on top of the vertical fin.
The Shahed 285 is a Bell 206 with a narrower fuselage with many flat panels, including the single seat cockpit. The helicopter has no stub wings, but pipes under which the weapons are hung. Quite typical is the streamlined nose with gun turret in it. (photo: Shahram Sharifi/WikiMedia)
The world's first mass-produced helicopter has a square fuselage cross section. The fuselage of the R-4 gradually tapers into the tail boom. It has no vertical stabiliser, but an open frame that holds the tail rotor on top. The tail wheel it attached to the middle of the tail boom by long struts.
Basically an R-4 with a new fuselage and tail boom, the R-6 has a typical appearance. When on the ground, it is supported by the two main gears at the lowest point, and a tail gear under the long, pointed tail boom. The front fuselage points up and has a small wheel underneath as well. The R-6 has no horizongtal or vertical stabiliser.
As the fixed wheeled gear can have different configurations (tail, nose and four legs), the main characteristic is the fuselage cross section. This is a triangle with rounded corners: the top of the fuselage is wider than the bottom.
With its rounded fuselage the Sikorsky S-52 looks a bit like an Alouette 3 with four, single wheeled gears, but then with a covered engine (in the fuselage). Its horizontal stabilisers have significant anhedral.
The S-55, also known as H-19 and Westland Whirlwind, has the engine in the nose. This is connected through the cabin to the three blade main rotor. The cockpit is above the cabin, in front of the rotor mast and above the engine. The las key feature is the four leg gear.
On this photo the S-56 has no rotors, but without you can still easily see the key features: engine nacelles placed on pylons attached to the top middle of the fuselage, that also hold the long two wheel retractable main gears. In the nose, below the cockpit, are clamshell doors with windows.
