The Piasecki HUP Retriever/H-25 Army Mule is a compact single radial engine, twin overlapping tandem rotor utility helicopter developed by the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation of Morton, Pennsylvania. Designed to a United States Navy specification, the helicopter was produced from 1949 to 1954, and was also used by the United States Army and foreign navies. The HUP/H-25 was the first helicopter to perform a loop and to be produced with an autopilot.
-Wikipedia
There are two variants of this helicopter
The HUP retriever, The version made for the Navy
And
The H-25 Army mule, The exact same version as the HUP retriever but instead it was made for the Army,
This helicopter would inspire the making of chinook, (and other future helicopters similar to the HUP retriever)
This is the only well-known helicopter (even though there are other helicopters just like this) but this one is the only well-known helicopter to actually be used widely by the Military. And would later go on to inspire more successors made by different aircraft companies such as Vertol and Boeing's Ch-46 sea knight and later the CH-47 made by Boeing alone.
The livery i used to make this helicopter
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 42.3ft (12.9m)
- Length 79.9ft (24.3m)
- Height 26.9ft (8.2m)
- Empty Weight 35,889lbs (16,279kg)
- Loaded Weight 65,150lbs (29,551kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 3.66
- Wing Loading 130.0lbs/ft2 (634.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 501.3ft2 (46.6m2)
- Drag Points 15568
Parts
- Number of Parts 208
- Control Surfaces 2
- Performance Cost 968
(Edit from 07/22/2021): many more versions (mostly with the livery being that of the other countries that use this rotorcraft) of this helicopter will be coming, this also includes the H-25 mule and the HUP-2 retriever
The special thing about this helicopter was that there was one thing that was hard to make and The hardest part of making this
Helicopter is making the cockpit Design,I literally had to use fuselaged nose and the glass fuselage at the same time in order to make it
Controls:
Throttle to turn on and hover the helicopter up or down
Yaw to yaw helicopter left or right (works better if the throttle has been lowered)
Roll to turn the helicopter sideways
Ag3 to activate winch with the magnet
Vtol Down to lower the magnet attached on winch
Vtol up to Bring the magnet back to its original place
AG4 To activate magnet