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The XCH-62 prototype, the largest helicopter ever built in the western countries, was displayed at the US Army Aviation Museum until scrapped in 2005. I don't think the XCH-62 ever made an experimental flight.

 

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  • Length: 87 ft 3 in (26.59 m) (overall fuselage length)
  • Height: 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m) (to top of pylon)
  • Empty weight: 59,580 lb (27,025 kg)
  • Gross weight: 118,000 lb (53,524 kg)
  • Powerplant: 3 × Allison T701-AD-700 turboshaft, 8,080 hp (6,030 kW) each
  • Main rotor diameter: 2× 92 ft 0 in (28.04 m)
  • Main rotor area: 13,260 sq ft (1,232 m2)

 

 

"Lost Forever!"

 

The scrapping of the XCH-62 at Fort Rucker, in 2005, caused widespread outrage among enthusiasts, engineers and historians as a deluge of controversy filled the internet forums and chat-rooms.

 

However, the reasons, which emerged for the destruction of the machine, showed that the resources, which would have had to be devoted to its preservation, would be better employed on other exhibits.

 

The Army Museum director, Steve Maxham, said:

 

"It never was an aircraft. It never flew. It was essentially an incomplete concept model, the shell of an idea. It was never structurally completed.

 

It was never mechanically completed. It was never electrically harnessed. There was only one rotorhead produced, the second was not. There were only blades made for one head. There were no drive train components. The upper structures, both fore and aft, were never manufactured. The interior was never completed. In no way, shape or form did it qualify as an aircraft, historic or otherwise."

 

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/xch-62_hlh.htm

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