Helicopter Lands on Coast Guard "Flat Top" in Sea-Rescue Drill. Looking ahead to post-war rescue service on the high seas, the United States Coast Guard experiments with a Helicopter landing on the deck of a "flat top". The test was conducted off the Atlantic Coast. Helicopters have been used in simulated ocean rescues and found serviceable in dropping vertically beside shipwrecked survivors, taking them aboard and speeding to the nearest shore hospital.

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