Scott, one of my readers, sent this photo and asked if I knew
where and when helicopters would have been used to set modular homes. Here is
his email:
Hey, can I get some love on my helicopter mystery?
Can you circulate this image among your readers and find out
who was using a freakin skycrane to set houses like this?
I’d like to know who did this and when? This machine is
incredibly rare, only a few were made in the non military version and looking
from the trees in the photo this is in the North East US. Are they
building on a mountain where they can’t get to it by truck?
There is a backhoe in the image; did they fly that in also?
Is this a ski resort? This photo is from something published in
1971. This photo is taken around the time of the Apollo landing – the
things that were unthinkable, and building a helicopter that could pick up
stuff like this was one of those things.
So … who knows who, what, when, where and why?
Thanks guys!
