A nose turret with one M129 40 mm grenade launcher with 300 rounds. In light of the failure of the AH-56 was proposed as a replacement for the M5 system on the UH-1 helicopter. Designed to be interchangeable with the XM53.
XM52
Belly turret with a single XM140 30 mm cannon. Use on other helicopters was also debated.
XM53
A nose turret with one XM196 7.62x51 mm machine gun. Also said to be suitable for the UH-1 series of helicopters. Designed to be interchangeable with the XM51.
Dear Boys and Girls, here is a article in French about Lockheed's rigid rotor derivatives of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne. Illustrated are the "projects" for the Lockheed CL-1026 30 passenger compound helicopter and the Lockheed CL-879 90 passenger compound helicopter (together with a picture of the CARR Retractoplane CL-945 "project")......
The picture comes from the 15th February 1968 issue of Aviation Magazine International......
Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French describing the Lockheed AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter and its rigid-rotor; though by this stage it is obviously not a "project"......
The article comes from the 1st July 1967 issue of Aviation Magazine International......
Dear Boys and Girls, here is a picture with a caption in French of the "projected" Lockheed Air Commuter passenger derivative of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne......
The picture comes from the 15th December 1966 issue of Aviation Magazine International......
In 1967 NASA proposed a VTOL version of the Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar that would be equipped with the engine, transmission and tailrotor of an AH-56 Cheyenne. The blades would be compact and able to fold backward.
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beleive it or not but i have a picture of the civil variant of the cheyenne in one of the magazines i got from my pop, and these magazines also have a whole buch of rotorcraft listings, gunships, gyros, transports and civil helicopters
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beleive it or not but i have a picture of the civil variant of the cheyenne in one of the magazines i got from my pop, and these magazines also have a whole buch of rotorcraft listings, gunships, gyros, transports and civil helicopters
beleive it or not but i have a picture of the civil variant of the cheyenne in one of the magazines i got from my pop, and these magazines also have a whole buch of rotorcraft listings, gunships, gyros, transports and civil helicopters
Please share with us if you can. The civil CL-1026 proposal can also be found toward the top of this page.