My list of other revolutionary aircraft
Bell Huey (first helo used in large numbers????)

Incorrect the Bell 47 preceded it by almost a decade
and remained in production until 1976

Still, the Huey was a revolutionary aircraft because it was the first
to demonstrate that air-mobile warfare was practical. Not for nothing
that the whomp-whomp-whomp of a Huey's rotors is the seminal sound of
Vietnam.

I spent more Huey time skiing in the Canadian Rockies than I did
tootling around Vietnam, but still it's the rain forest and paddy
fields that I see whenever I hear those blades thumping. The Huey and
the M-16 are the tools with which we fought that war, and each was a
revolution, for the U.S. Army if not for combat generally.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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