“Mystery Number 3 (Solved – see below)

What does the above helicopter have to do with a Curtiss Wright Junior?

Please send your answer to me at randy@curtisswrightjunior.com

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Mystery 3 Solved!!!

Thanks to Mr. Bob McBride

This was not so much a mystery as it was a test.  And we got the correct answer from Mr. Bob McBride.  Bob is a new viewer who found us while researching the CW-1.  Bob shared with us in a couple of emails:

“One of your “mystery” photos shows Frank Piasecki piloting one of his helicopter designs.  I think I remember reading somewhere that for this particular project, he purchased the fuselage of a wrecked Junior and built this chopper around that fuselage.

The Piasecki Helicopter is at the Udvar-Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum, on the grounds of Dulles International Airport.”

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Here is what it looks like today in the Udvar Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum at the Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC.