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Description
| Notes: Upgraded UH-2C. Also NHH-2D. | ||
| Manufacturer: | Kaman | |
| Base model: | H-2 | |
| Designation: | HH-2 | |
| Version: | D | |
| Nickname: | SEASPRITE | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
| Designation Period: | 1962-Present | |
| Basic role: | Helicopter | |
| Modified Mission: | Search and Rescue | |
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Specifications
Propulsion
Performance
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| American Helicopter Museum | West Chester | Pennsylvania |
| National Museum of Naval Aviation | NAS Pensacola | Florida |
HH-2D on display
American Helicopter Museum | National Museum of Naval Aviation |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Mark Moore , MI | Ed Colemen has spoken! He's an expert on H2's; and alot of other things too! Clint the fact of the matter is that the "Blade flap" is a very interesting concept was proven in thousands of flight hours. As for you being a "BB" chaser, why in gods name would you be concerned by a blade flap?
Now with that being said, I too flew in these wild looking little machines! BTW, I was stationed with Ed in HSL 31 from 1976-1979b however I was just a little ole second class. However, today I have some 35 years of helicopter experience so I tend to agree with ED! do some research on blade flaps and get back to us. I hate to say it but; I like Ed; flew in the H2's, you see we were both SAR Instructors. And as luck would have it, some years later we both worked together at Rotary wing in Pax River MD (On the H2G model--- T700 and all)! Take Care Signed Mark D Moore President MDM Capital LLC 07/12/2008 @ 01:13 [ref: 21841] |
| Jim Flores (AD) Huntington Beach, CA | Used the catwalk in the tail as a sauna in the "PI". HSL-37 Det 4 w/Senior Chief Gene Nichols. Greased many a rotor and tail blade. Amazing we ever were able to fold blades in rough seas. Or the experience of an H2 popping out of the fog IN YOUR FACE to land a hard landing (I was the LSE who hit the deck as hard as it did). 04/07/2008 @ 12:55 [ref: 20363] |
| H. E. (ED) COLEMAN Hollywood, MD | Clint; I started working on H2's in 1963 when they were new A&B models, first as station SAR aircraft and then as a squadron det aircraft with HU/HC-1 in early 1965 and then again as station SAR at Cecil Field, FL.for 4 years. In late 1970 I had orders to HC-7 with a stop at HC-5 for aircrew refresher training. Although I flew the H-3's I also worked with the HH-2C as a maintenance Chief, after my tour with HC-7 I went to HC-1 for a breif period and then finished up my time in the Navy with HSL-31 working with the HH-2D's & the SH-2F's. After retiring from the Navy in 1977 I spent a few year i Ark. and the went to work at the Navy Rotary Wing Test Squadron at Pax River Md. were worked with the SH-2F's and The SH-2G's where I retired the SH-2G to the Avition Museum here at Pax River. I have about 2000 helo flight hours under my belt most of which is H-2 time and as a crew leader on 2 plane station Sar duty I have work and fasets of the H-2 maintenance, So with this said I want to tell you statment of the H-2 Design is totally wrong and you need to learn more about what your are talking about before you put your foot in your mouth again
ED Coleamn 12/25/2007 @ 16:48 [ref: 19048] |
| JOHN BIRCH MILLINGTON, TN | i STARTED MY H2 flying career as a young AMS3 WITH HC-1 Combat Sar Det-11 Oct. 66-March 67, 2 pilots 8 enlistede 4 of whom were aircrewmen.
When HC-1 split i went to HC-5 still flying UH2 A&Bs the Jan 1969 I went to HC-7 where as a AMS2 was assigned to the Combat H2 Dets operating from the DLGs and cruisers off the coast of North Viet Nam. I flew in HC-7 from Jan 69 to Aopr. 71. The H2 always got us there and back a good point of reference in LCDR Joe Breckas flt on Jan. 6, 1967 Joe and crew launched at sunset over North Viet-Nam searching for LCDR Richard Mullins who was just shot out of the sky and e jected from his F-8 Crusader. Joe and his crew were flying a helo with "Joe's Jeepney Service" accross the nose. Thier helo suffered 51 bullet holes and the second crewman William Duggan ATN-3 was mortally wounded. Joe was also wounded however he nursed the crippled H2 back to the DLG USS Gridley. I could go on and on singing my praises of the H2 and HH2 and have many more combat stories of the H2 saving the day for many down aviators for instance my friend Anthony Hanson AT2 was awarded the Navy Cross for leaving a perfectly good H2 and dropping from the hoist cable and finding an Airforce pilot with 22 broken bones laying in the jungle with bullets popping Anthony carried him to a clearing where they were hoisted out. My most memorial H2 flt was a week long trip where i took a single engine H2 to Kaman AC Co. for UH2C mod. the men in HC-1 and HC-7 Combat SAR Dets loved the H2 and we have our reunion every 2 years see hc7seadevils.org John Birch AMSC USN Ret, I flew H2s in HC-1, 5,7 and HSL-31 12/23/2007 @ 12:57 [ref: 19024] |
| Barry Sinclair , CA | Hello Bill Price,
You must have left the squadron just about the time I arrived!! To be honest, I never said that I invented the "Snidley Whiplash" logo. It was already in existence. But AMH2 Steve Meyers and I did create the stencil and painted the logo on the door of the helo. Whether it had existed before "on" the aircraft is debatable. But we did paint it on the aircraft as well as on a panel with an observation window off to the side of the hangar facing the flight deck. If it had existed before, it was definitely removed or painted over. I only mention it because it was one of the only indelible marks that I left on the detachment, other than my hard work & long hours. But then, everyone who was with the "SHAKA" crew made lasting contributions in one way or another. 12/11/2007 @ 10:14 [ref: 18880] |
| Clint Hullinger Empire, NV | I was attached to HSL-94 as a BB stacker and I think the man who designed the H2 should be castrated every day for the rest of his life.Any one who designs a helo with flaps on the rotors is insane! 11/07/2007 @ 23:43 [ref: 18450] |
| Bill Price Bangkok, AL | I was in HSL-31 Det from \'82-85 and it was by far the best sea duty of my 20 odd years in the navy, and probably some of the best in my life. Especially those Det parties in Subic, remember one where we were paying barfines with lobsters. Those were definitely the days!!
I think Barry might be wrong when he says that he came up with the Bad Boys of Bravo logo. I remembered the first time I saw it used was the Christmas of \'84 when AMS1 JJ Johnston came up with the idea and sanded off the old logo which was \"Shaka written over the Det Bravo emblem with the crew members list below. Now if he served prior to 84 then I stand corrected. 11/01/2007 @ 17:38 [ref: 18378] |
| Wes Cook Lima, OH | Gee, Man I don't know if you guys are interested, I was one of the NavAids sailors I served from july 73 until july 77. Don't know if I ever was able to express how much we appreciated all the work you guys did and flying to keep us alive on those remote locations. You were our life lines. I'm speaking of the guys who operated off the Chauvenet and Harkness. I know we used to go a little heavy on those external loads just trying to get out of those sites. Thanks ever so much and I would love to have any copies of pictures of the helos working especially the ones that supported us. In 73' I was a 17 yr. old kid and a new engineman, You guy give me th two hour class on being the site LSE wow what a rush working with you all.
Thanks Wes Cook 04/20/2007 @ 14:31 [ref: 16248] |
| Don Lewis , TX | obviously i didn't do a very good job or either previewing this page for type of aircraft or even proofreading my own entry.
it was 149015 not 194015 and also i added a picture of the landing on the UH 2A page. 02/14/2007 @ 07:43 [ref: 15515] |
| don lewis mathis, TX | As an AE1 assigned to HC 2 det 69 I made the maiden cruise on board the USS JFK with 2 A and 1 B model H-2's. In fact I still have an official Navy picture of the very first aircraft landing of any kind onboard the Kennedy (194015). I also had the honor of being part of the crews that made the Kennedys first, second and third rescues, a RA-5 assigned to RVAH14. We saved the backseat man but never saw the pilot. On the very next day I had two more rescues from a lost F4 from VF 101. I did fly in this HH2D when it was still an A model when we returned off the cruise.
01/28/2007 @ 13:36 [ref: 15325] |
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