Identify this helicopter

[evansb]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WHC090210.jpg

[MikeNYC]

Edit: Possibly the Czech-made Aero HC-2 (http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/hc-2.php)? (after the Eastern European hint from Evil Twin)

[Evil Twin]

I was going to say Hiller then I thought Dijin and now I'm thinking Mil 2 seat trainer. Looking at the writing on the tail rotor drive shaft tube I'd say eastern european.

[sycamore]

Looks like an HC-2/HC-102,from the Central Bohemian Machine Works,Czechoslovakia,from 1953

[MikeNYC]

Sycamore: looks like you're dead on... HC 102 Heli Baby helicopter (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HC_102_Heli_Baby_engine.jpg). Looks like the same hangar/museum that the OP's image is from.

[evansb]

Yes, it is the Czechoslovakian built Moravan/Aero HC-102 Helibaby. More powerful than the HC-2 it replaced. Built in 1961, the HC-102 is powered by the Avia M-110H 117-hp 4-cylinder engine. Laminate covered wood rotors. 21 were built. The military designation is VR-2.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/HC-102_09.jpg

[PaPa Foxtrot]

.....And people complain about the Robinson T-Bar cyclic!!

[SASless]

Early Hillers had the over head cyclic setup as well.

[22clipper]

Just wondering if more rain would come in through the cyclic hole in the canopy than around the door seals of an R22?

[madman1145]

Door seals in a Robinson :confused: ??????

[g-mady]

I hope an airprox was filed after that Czech fixed wing flew past :ugh:

Ill get my coat...