Coast Guard Helicopter Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with New U-Type Equipment. "Contact".. Having spotted the "shipwreck victim" struggling in the sea, the pilot of a Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter maneuvers directly above and lowers the new u-type rescue harness. While the helicopter's whirling blades hold it stationary, the "Victim" grasps the harness then pulls himself up from the grips of the ocean. The demonstration from the Coast Guard Air Station at Brooklyn, was staged to show the value of the new clear for air-sea rescues in heavy seas. The pilot was Coast Guard Commander F. A. E
Coast Guard Helicopter Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with New U-Type Equipment. "Contact".. Having spotted the "shipwreck victim" struggling in the sea, the pilot of a Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter maneuvers directly above and lowers the new u-type rescue harness. While the helicopter's whirling blades hold it stationary, the "Victim" grasps the harness then pulls himself up from the grips of the ocean. The demonstration from the Coast Guard Air Station at Brooklyn, was staged to show the value of the new clear for air-sea rescues in heavy seas. The pilot was Coast Guard Commander F. A. Erickson of Tacoma, Wash. and the "shipwreck victim," Coast Guardsman Lewis T. Marshall, Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class, of Peabody, Mass.
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