Coast Guard Helicopter Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with New U-Type Equipment. Aerial Like a breath taking circus performance, the "shipwreck victim" is hoisted out of the sea, as the Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter rises and makes its course toward land in a demonstration of a new off-shore air-sea rescue technique. The "Rescuee" is sitting in the new U-Type rescue harness, which the hovering helicopter had lowered to his grasp. The experiment was made in the Atlantic from the Coast Guard Air Station, Brooklyn, Coast Guard Commander F. A. Erickson, of Tacoma, Wash. piloted th
Coast Guard Helicopter Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with New U-Type Equipment. Aerial Like a breath taking circus performance, the "shipwreck victim" is hoisted out of the sea, as the Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter rises and makes its course toward land in a demonstration of a new off-shore air-sea rescue technique. The "Rescuee" is sitting in the new U-Type rescue harness, which the hovering helicopter had lowered to his grasp. The experiment was made in the Atlantic from the Coast Guard Air Station, Brooklyn, Coast Guard Commander F. A. Erickson, of Tacoma, Wash. piloted the helicopter; Coast Guardsman Lewis T. Marshall. Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class, of Peabody, Mass. was the "shipwreck victim.".
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