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KN-1814 "DASH" (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter) in free flight over USS HAZELWOOD (DD-531)

"DASH" (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter) in free flight over USS HAZELWOOD (DD-531)
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Title: "DASH" (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter) in free flight over USS HAZELWOOD (DD-531)
Caption: "DASH" (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter) the U.S. Navy's new long range anti-submarine weapon system, "DASH", hovers in free flight over the flight deck of the USS HAZELWOOD (DD-531). Suspended under the drone's body is a homing torpedo, mainstay of the DASH system. The drone produced by Gyrodyne Co. of America, Inc., of Long Island, New York, is designated model DSN-1. It made the world's first free flight of a completely unmanned drone heli. At the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MA. In August, 1960. March 22, 1961.
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Catalog #: KN-1814
Copyright Owner: National Archives
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Original Date: Wed, Mar 22, 1961
After this Year: 1960
Before this Year: 1969
Original Medium: Color Photo
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