VERSATILITY OF HELICOPTERS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27593, 25 February 1955, Page 10

VERSATILITY OF HELICOPTERS

OBSERVATIONS IN KOREA

Brigadier J. T. Burrows, commander of Southern Military District, told members of the Canterbury Junior Chamber of Commerce last evening that he had been impressed with the use of helicopters in Korea. For a year he was commander of K Force. He said he knew that helicopters were costly to operate and their maintenance presented a serious problem, but he still failed to see anything that prevented a helicopter service being developed.

New Zealanders serving in Korea had looked with envious eyes on American aid to Korean troops in the form of helicopters carrying heavy beams into inaccessible areas for the building of revetments. The helicopters hovered above the ground while the beams were detached. The New Zealanders had had to use means of their own to' get such material into position, he said.

Brigadier Burrows said an American had told him that at a passing out parade of helicopter pilots he had seen a display of square dancing in helicopters. The music had been broadcast to the machines which had gone “l r ° u S h l he movements of a flgure After what I have seen I am quite P aa P a red ..J?u Say 11 is a true bil V’ he added. They are quite extraordin-