The Belgian Air Force used Sycamores in the Congo. The first international connection between two towns via helicopter was first introduced by SABENA (according to some - jealous - British, this stands for Such A Bad Experience Never Again), which used Sikorsky's. There was a special heliport just outside Brussels, but the dream of some was to build skyscrapers like in America, and then use the roofs as a landing platform. In fact, it turned out that helicopters were quite expensive to operate. The Rotodyne seemed to be a cheaper alternative, but apparantly, it was far too noisy. If SABENA continued for some years with the helico's, it mainly was because it was good PR.
@@maxbodymass6288 I doubt there's an airline in existence which hasn't acquired a snarky nickname. On the U.S. side, I remember my dad talking about Northworst, and of course there's always good old Untied Air Lines.
"..& can fly in perfect safety should one of the 2 engines fail. Why, I remember Hamburg '43 where it was discovered that just one good British engine was found to be perfectly adequate to bash the Boche & be home in plenty of time for brekkers".
Surprised to see that the rotor attachment pin is in the head down position ! this is not good engineering practise,not mentioned here is that the Sycamore had wooden main rotors,only one example of the Sycamore still flies today based in Switzerland.
