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flying banana
nickname- a military transport helicopter, especially the Piasecki HRP US, 1950
- In August, HMX-1 receivd the Piasecki HRP-i. Nicknamed the “Flying Banana” due to its shape, the twin-rotor aircraft had a payload of 900 pounds at a speed of 100 miles per hour. — Jon T. Hoffman, USMC, p. 428, 2002
- an H-21 helicopter US, 1957
Vietnam war usage with variant “banana”. - “I see banana smoke” the AC radios and the bird banks slightly left dropping quickly then levels and aims for the LZ. — John M. Del Vecchio, The 13 Valley, p. 632, 1982
- The helicopter the Army had sent to Vietnam, the H-21 Shawnee, was an ungainly-looking machine of Korean War vintage, shaped like a fat bent pipe with large rotors fore and aft and appropriately named the Flying Banana by its crew. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 74, 1988
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