Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
Have you ever wondered why the Super Frelon, being a French design, has a rotor that rotates anti-clockwise from above as opposed to the normal clockwise, it uses the S64 rotor head. I found this out in 1977 at Marignane where there was a line up of Chinese Navy machines awaiting approval by the White House before they could be exported.
I thought the main rotor system was derived from the S-61. It has a 62' rotor diameter, same as S-61, but has one additional blade.