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| | Piasecki HRP 1 Flying Banana |
 | | HRP-1; "HRP-1 helicopter hovering off ground, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., USCG No. 111821 commissioned Nov. 1948 decommissioned Dec. 1951, to Navy."; 30 January 1951; no photo number; photo by Philip A. Biscuti, PH, USCG. |
 | | Many of the current Coast Guard helicopter rescue procedures in use today owe their development to Erickson and the HRP experiments he, along with the men of the Coast Guard's Rotary Wing Development Unit, conducted in 1949 and 1950. |
 | | CG 111826 crashed while landing at Lifeboat Station Chicamacomico, North Carolina on 23 February 1951, fortunately without loss of life. |
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