The Bell UH-1 helicopter, popularly known as the "Huey," was the workhorse aircraft for U.S. forces in Vietnam. Well adapted for jungle warfare, the Huey could fly at low altitudes and speeds ...

Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United ...

The US Army brought more than 12,000 helicopters to Vietnam, with 70% of them being Bell UH-1 "slicks," known informally as the "Huey." The Army helicopter attrition rate in Vietnam was 42%!

During the opening years of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military began ... The Army proposed to mount a 105 mm artillery gun on the chassis of a UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter. The engineers wanted ...

The civilian version of the ubiquitous Vietnam ... Bell Textron, a division of Textron Inc) developed the aircraft for the Canadian military in the late 1960s as an upgrade of the original UH-1 ...