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Bell Model 47
For decades, this craft defined "helicopter". The When in military service, it was called the H-13 Sioux, and in its medical evacuation role it starred in the opening sequence of the television series M*A*S*H. Various models were produced from 1945 to 1974, and many were converted for special uses, including the Continental "El Tomcat" agricultural sprayer with a roll-bar cage cabin and a pointed nose replacing the Plexiglas bubble. |