Talk:Kaman HH-43 Huskie

First and Last
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Pre-1962
Born2flie: The pre-1962 designation sequence mixes USAF helicopter designations with the bolded USN designations for the Huskie prior to 1962. --05:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Move article?
Who was the most prominent user of this aircraft and what should the name of the article be according to the naming conventions? --Born2flie 06:50, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd say the USAF and HH-43 Huskie. - BillCJ 07:44, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, I just see a lot of USN and USMC reference in the Variants list. Do we have references for the number of aircraft used? --Born2flie 08:11, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, the USN/USMC were all redesignated in 1963, so H-43 at least is appropriate. Kaman H-43 might work, but I've always read it as HH-43 Huskie in most print works. I'll see if I can find some numbers on the users somewhere. - BillCJ 15:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Internal Kaman designation seems to have been K-600. Drutt (talk) 06:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It was the Kaman Model K-600. I would agree that it could be H-43 Huskie according to the naming convention but the HH-43 Huskie is by far the most common variant with 200 built, the quantities are on the list of variants. So I would support leaving the title alone. MilborneOne (talk) 09:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I believe that the stub Kaman HUK article would be best served by merging into this article, as the HUK was redesignated into the HH-43 sequence in '62, the article is, as noted, a stub, and, minor but there, the navbox for U.S. Navy rotorcraft sends you to this page for the HUK... - The Bushranger (talk) 00:21, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Concur. Looks like an orphan, with not many regulars having edited it. - BilCat (talk) 00:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree as per comments above. MilborneOne (talk) 11:48, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. - The Bushranger (talk) 06:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Really?
This article states: "Composite – HH-43F on static display at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This airframe is painted as 60-0289, but was built up from parts of various HH-34s" I'd be impressed by any assembly of Choctaw parts that might be mistaken for an HH-43, but sadly, I suspect that this is just a typo... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.162 (talk) 12:53, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 20:50, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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The enormous difference in weight and power between the K-240/HTK-1/TH-43E version and other versions needs to be made clear.
I've added a note that the HTK-1 (K-240 or TH-43E) was powered by a 240 hp Lycoming O-435-4 flat-six piston engine. Surprising as this sounds, the Navy pilot's handbook confirms it. This explains the big difference in model number between the K-240 and the K-600; the number obviously states the horsepower. With this engine, weight was greatly reduced; max weight was only 3000 lb. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 21:23, 13 August 2021 (UTC)


 * It was a trainer, so it's not really "shocking". But it does illustrate the difference between small piston engines and turboshaft engines, and why the change was almost revolutionary. Even today, only the lowest end of helicopters where price is more important continue to use piston engines. BilCat (talk) 21:34, 13 August 2021 (UTC)


 * True, but I was talking about the change from the small piston engine (Lycoming O-435) to the big piston engine (Pratt & Whitney R-1340), not the later change to the turboshaft. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 22:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok, it wasn't very clear, to me anyway. But I do believe it was because it was a trainer, and didn't need the bigger engine,.and that's understandable. BilCat (talk) 22:54, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, agreed there. My initial shock was because I had naively expected the HTK-1 to have the same engine as the HOK-1 and HUK-1, since there was no explicit mention of a different engine in the article. So when while looking through the HTK-1 manual to compare its max weight with those, I saw "3,000 lb" and then the mention of the 240 hp Lycoming, my initial reaction was "wait, what?!" I just didn't expect a huge difference like that. It did make sense to me that a trainer might have far less power, though. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 00:36, 14 August 2021 (UTC)


 * In context, I understand. BilCat (talk) 00:57, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Charles Kaman
This article should mention that Charles Kaman developed an intermeshing rotor system before Anton Flettner came to the US. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 15:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

USMC Kaman HH-43 Huskie armed with SS.11 wire guided missiles
I have seen a photo of the anti-tank version of this helicopter but cannot find a good references. It would be nice at some point to get this into the article. There is one grainy picture on the commons already, but it would be nice to having something about this project at some point in the article. A75 (talk) 21:10, 9 May 2024 (UTC)