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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.
Typical features of this helicopter are the boat shaped underside of the fuselage, enabling water landings, and strut-braced sponsons at the end of small stubs. The latter provide stability in the water and hold the retracts gear. The single wheel tail gear is not retractable.
This derivative of the S-61/Sea King has a loading ramp at the rear of the fuselage, large sponsons and an all two wheel nose gear. They have a five blade main rotor, a tail rotor on the left and a high mounted horizontal stabiliser on the right.
The S-64/CH-54 was designed to carry heavy load and therefore has a short forward fuselage with cockpit. For the rest it is essentially a frame holding the two engines and main rotor, and long legs for the main landing gear. The helicopter has a six blade main rotor and four blade tail rotor. A pod can be attached under the fuselage.
The biggest helicopter in the western world has six to eight main rotor blades, three engines on top of the fuselage, a tail rotor on the left side of the tail and a high mounted horizontal stabiliser on the right. Also characteristic are the large sponsons at the side of the fuselage, and the straight top of the fuselage, from cockpit to tail.
The fuselage of the S-70/H-60 family has an air foil profile shape, when viewed from the side. The bottom is nearly flat, while the top is rounded, with the highest part near the rotor mast. The four blade tail rotor on the right of the vertical stabiliser is a bit canted, and the single piece horizontal stabiliser can tilt in a cut-out of the vertical fin. It has a fixed tail wheel gear, of which the tail wheel can have one or two wheels and can be at different locations.
The S-76 is a streamlined helicopter with a fuselage that smoothly tapers into the tail boom. It has a retractable gear, of which the main gear retracts rearward in the fuselage.
This helicopter has a four blade main rotor, powered by two turboshaft engines placed at the side of the gear box housing. Typical for the S-92 are the canted, four blade tail rotor on the right side, the single horizontal stabiliser, attached to the vertical stabiliser by a rodd, and big sponsons at the sides of the fuselage.
This medium size helicopter comes in many versions, all of which have in common the two engines placed on top of the fuselage, in front of the main rotor with exhausts at the side. The single or double wheel main landing gear retracts in small stubs or larger sponsons. The nose gear has two wheels as standard. The tail rotor is mounted at the right top of the vertical stabiliser, with a horizontal stabiliser on the opposite side.
The Gazelle was one of this first helicopters with a shrouded tail rotor. Additionally, it has a droplet shaped fuselage, on top of which the engine is slightly separated from the (rear) fuselage. The helicopter has a three blade main rotor, and skids with standard tubes.