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| Keywords: 330-PSA-278-61 (USN 710987): HSS-2 Sets Three Speed Records. U.S. Navy Captain Bruce K. Lloyd, (left), and Commander E. J. (Jack) Roulstone, in front of the HSS-2 helicopter which they piloted today to claim three world speed records. The twin-turbine aircraft flew over a closed-circuit course along the shore of the Long Island Sound between Milford and Westbrook, Connecticut, to set marks of 182.8 miles an hour for 100 kilometers, 179.5 miles an hour for 500 kilometers and 175.3 miles an hour for 1000 kilometers. The HSS-2 is a U.S. Navy anti-submarine weapons system now in production at the Sirkorsky Aircraft Plant at Stratford, Connecticut. Captain Lloyd is Test Coordinator at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland. Commander Roulstone is Head of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Branch of the Service Test Division at Patuxent River. Photograph released December 1, 1961. (9/29/2015). 330-PSA-278-61 (USN 710987): HSS-2 Sets Three Speed Records. U.S. Navy Captain Bruce K. Lloyd, (left), and Commander E. J. (Jack) Roulstone, in front of the HSS-2 helicopter which they piloted today to claim three world speed records. The twin-turbine aircraft flew over a closed-circuit course along the shore of the Long Island Sound between Milford and Westbrook, Connecticut, to set marks of 182.8 miles an hour for 100 kilometers, 179.5 miles an hour for 500 kilometers and 175.3 miles an hour for 1000 kilometers. The HSS-2 is a U.S. Navy anti-submarine weapons system now in production at the Sirkorsky Aircraft Plant at Stratford, Connecticut. Captain Lloyd is Test Coordinator at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland. Commander Roulstone is Head of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Branch of the Service Test Division at Patuxent River. Photograph released December 1, 1961. (9/29/2015). | ||||
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