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The Helicopter has unique characteristics which have led to it being featured in films, video games, and other media.

Models

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Agusta A109

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The Agusta A109 has appeared in:

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Television:

AH-1 Cobra

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After the US Army sold AH-1 Cobra parts in the surplus market, at least one private interest was able to assemble a flyable AH-1F which was then made available for filming. This explains the Cobra's numerous appearances in both television episodes and movies. (The Army later destroyed key surplus parts to prevent unauthorized assembly of an AH-1.)

Films:

Television:

Games:

AH-64 Apache

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The AH-64 Apache has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

  • Top Gear – A British Army Apache WAH-64 tracked presenter Jeremy Clarkson (in a Lotus Exige). Clarkson could avoid being locked on, so long as the Apache was restricted to the area above the racetrack; the Apache achieved lock within seconds once it was allowed to go further away.
  • Future Weapons - A US Army Longbow Apache was featured in one episode, demonstrating its' combat capabilities in both day and night conditions.

Games:

The Apache is one of three helicopters playable in the game Blackhawk Striker 2.

Bell 47

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The Bell 47G is well known as the helicopter used in both the M*A*S*H film, and the M*A*S*H television series. Other appearances include:

Movies:

Television:

Bell 206

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The Bell 206 has appeared in:

Bell 212

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The Bell 212 or the more recent Bell 412 has appeared in:

Films:

Bell 222

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The Bell 222 is famous for its appearance as Airwolf in the television series also named Airwolf. A Bell 222 also appeared as an enemy chopper named “Redwolf”

UH-60 Black Hawk

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The UH-60 Black Hawk has appeared in:

CH-46 Sea Knight / BV/KV 107-II

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The CH-46 Sea Knight has appeared in:

Films:


Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)

Command and Conquer Renegade as GDI and Nod's transport copter.

Boeing CH-47 Chinook / Model 234

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The CH-47 Chinook has appeared in:

Films:


Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)
  • Armored Fist 3 (non-playable)
  • Operation Flashpoint series - Added in the Red Hammer Expansion
  • The Ace Combat series (non-playable)
  • Command & Conquer: Generals series - As the USA supply gatherer.
  • Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and Command and Conquer Red Alert under the name of transport helicopter.

Books:

  • DK Big Book of Airplanes by Anne Millard (ISBN 0789465213)

CH-53

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The CH-53 and its variants have appeared in:

Films:

Games:

MH-53 Pave Low

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Films:

Books:

Games

CH-54 Tarhe

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The CH-54 Tarhe has appeared in:

Films:

Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw

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The Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

  • A CH-34, painted pink with a toothy smile and named the Screaming Mimi–featured in the television series Riptide.
  • An episode of Miami Vice where gangsters hold hostages trying to escape to the Bahamas.

Eurocopter Colibri

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The Eurocopter Colibri has appeared in:

Films:

RAH-66 Comanche

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The RAH-66 Comanche has appeared in:

Films:

  • Hulk – pursuing the title character through a canyon

Television:

Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc – Not playable
    • Enemy Engaged: Comanche/Hokum – Featured
  • Gunship 2000 - Two versions of the Comanche are playable in this game. One with external pylons labeled as the Comanche Gunship and one without pylons called a Comanche Scout.
  • Jungle Strike
  • Command & Conquer: Generals – Controllable when playing USA. Fighting them when playing GLA. If a Commanche is shot down, one pilot bails out in a parachute.
  • The Comanche Series by NovaLogic - 5 games in the series, controllable in single and multi-player modes.
  • The Rah66 Comanche appears in Command and Conquer Renegade as Sakura's personal helicopter.

The Comanche is one of three playable helicopters in Wildtangent's game Blackhawk Striker 2.

Eurocopter AS 365

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The Eurocopter Dauphin has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

Games

Hiller H-23

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The Hiller H-23 has appeared in:

Films:


Eurocopter Fennec AS-550

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The Eurocopter Fennec has appeared in:

Films:

Eurocopter AS350

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The Eurocopter AS350 has appeared in:

Films:


Television:

Aérospatiale Gazelle

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The Aérospatiale Gazelle has appeared in:

Films:


Television:

  • A Gazelle was used for the helicopter hidden within The Highwayman’s futuristic 18-wheeler. Also in the Mini-series Amerika (1987) a pair used Blue Thunder birds painted in black with Russian insignias, to simulate Soviet gunships
  • In the show Max Headroom, the reporter Edison Carter frequently uses a Gazelle to travel to news locations over the apocalyptic chaos below.
  • One Aérospatiale Gazelle with SFRY Air Force markings was in a Coca-Cola animated comercial which was a parody of the Grand Theft Auto game series. At the very end of the commercial a helicopter is seen passing over the screen with troops jumping out. The helicopter has a very clear SFR Yugoslav roundel on it's side. 1

Games

  • As seen in some screenshots, the Gazelle helicopter is depicted as a unit for NATO forces in the game World In Conflict.

Aérospatiale Alouette II

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The Aérospatiale Alouette II has appeared in:

TV Movie

Kamov Ka-27 Helix

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The Kamov Ka-27 Helix has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

  • The Ka-27 features as a heavy-lift Chinese helicopter in the popular real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. Its performance and size in this game is grossly exaggerated.
  • The Ka-27 appears as one of several non-playable support helicopters in Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc, armed with unguided rocket pods.

Kamov Ka-50

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The Kamov Ka-50 Hokum A has appeared in:

Games

Kamov Ka-52

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The Kamov Ka-52 Hokum B has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

  • Lock On: Modern Air Combat – non-playable
  • The Ka-52 is one of two helicopters the player can command in the flight sim Enemy Engaged: Comanche/Hokum, and is a non-playable helicopter in the game's predecessor, Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc.

The Ka-52 is also an enemy unit in the game Heatseeker.

Kamov Ka-60

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The Kamov Ka-60 has appeared in:

Games:

  • The Ka-60 is featured in Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty as the helicopter flown by the Terrorist who capture the Tanker in fisrt portion of the game. During a brief audo exchange, the Ka-62 (The commercial variant) is also mentioned. The "Kasatka" as the Ka-60 and 62 are called appears later in the game, flown by Otacon who is attempting to rescue the Hostages aboard BigShell.

UH-1 Iroquois

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The UH-1 Iroquois has appeared in:

Films:

  • Stage
  • Miss Saigon - The helicopter is an important part of a pivotal scene that separates the American from his Vietnamese lover. A UH1A formed the basis of a computer-generated image.[2]

Television:

Books:

  • Author Robert Mason recounts his career as a UH-1 "Slick" pilot in his memoir, Chickenhawk.

Video Games

OH-58 Kiowa

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The OH-58 Kiowa has appeared in:

Films:

  • The OH-58D is prominently featured in the movie Fire Birds as the sidekick to the movie's star, the AH-64A. Flown by Sean Young's character, CWO Guthrie, this example of the early, unarmed OH-58D accomplishes its mission of finding the enemy for the Apache as the movie approaches its climax.
  • The OH-58A has been seen in the films Commando & Close Encounters of the Third Kind acting as a light transport aircraft.

Games:

  • The armed OH-58D is one of the three flyable aircraft cockpits in the 1997 PC computer game, Longbow II. The game gives the possibility of flying in the pilot's right seat or flying in the co-pilot/gunner's (CPG) left seat.
  • Operation Flashpoint series - Added in the Red Hammer Expansion.

MBB Bo 105

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The MBB Bo 105 has appeared in:

Films:

MBB/Kawasaki BBK 117

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The MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 has appeared in:

Films:

MD 500 / Hughes OH-6

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The Hughes OH-6 / Hughes 500 has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

Games

MD 520N

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Films:

MD 600

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The MD 600 has appeared in:

Films:

MD Explorer

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The MD Explorer has appeared in:

Films:

Mil Mi-2 Hoplite

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The Mil Mi-2 Hoplite has appeared in:

Films:

Mil Mi-6 Hook

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The Mil Mi-6 Hook has appeared in:

Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)

Mil Mi-8 Hip

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The Mil Mi-8 Hip has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)
  • Operation Flashpoint series - Features the Mi-17 (Mi-8MT) as the primary transport helicopter of the Russian Forces. It is armed with 57mm Rockets.
  • Armed Assault - Features the Mi-17 in transport and gunship varients for the Sahrani Liberation Army.
  • Battlefield Vietnam

Mil Mi-14 Haze

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The Mil Mi-14 Haze has appeared in:

Films:

Mil Mi-24 Hind

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The Mil Mi-24 Hind has appeared in:

Films:


Games:

The Mi-24 appears in Command and Conquer Red Alert as the Soviets attack copter.

Mil Mi-28 Havoc

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The Mil Mi-28 Havoc has appeared in:

Games:

Aérospatiale Puma

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The Aérospatiale Puma has appeared in:

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Sikorsky S-61/H-3 Sea King

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The Sikorsky H-3 Sea King and variants have appeared in:

Films:


Television:

Games:

Sikorsky R-4

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The Sikorsky R-4 has appeared in:

Games:

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite

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The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite has appeared in:

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Aérospatiale Super Frelon

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The Aérospatiale Super Frelon has appeared in:

Films:

Eurocopter Super Puma

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The Eurocopter Super Puma has appeared in:

Films:

Eurocopter Tiger

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The Eurocopter Tiger has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

Sikorsky S-55

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The Sikorsky S-55 has appeared in:

Movies:

Television:

Sikorsky S-62

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The Sikorsky S-62 has appeared in:

Films

Sikorsky H-5

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The Sikorsky H-5 has appeared in:

Films:



Sikorsky S-76

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The Sikorsky S-76 has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

Sikorsky S-92

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The Sikorsky S-92 has appeared in:

Films:

V-22 Osprey

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The V-22 Osprey has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

In Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, the helicopter on the destroyer goes by the name of Ospery and serves as an anti-sub defence.

References

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  1. ^ http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/rambo3.html Fifth picture clearly shows a Gazelle with the fenestron (enclosed tail rotor), NOT the proposed Alouette III
  2. ^ Miss Saigon's Big-Ass Helicopter BY JUSTIN WESCOAT SANDERS, The Portland Mercury, Sep 2-8, 2004
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