A 1970s ad for a Winnebago Heli-Home made from a converted Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw helicopter shows the interior RV layout of the retrofitted copter. (COURTESY IMAGES)
A 1970s ad for a Winnebago Heli-Home made from a converted Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw helicopter shows the interior RV layout of the retrofitted copter. (COURTESY IMAGES)
The demand for extreme outdoor recreation seems limitless. Someone is always coming up with the next-level outback, off-grid, trekking unit meant to facilitate getting further out and away from civilization. Admittedly, there are days when I see the attraction to escaping the bonds of society. Most of these rigs border on survivalist grade hardware. Military truck conversions and overbuilt civilian examples lend a zombie apocalypse feel to these builds making Sasquatch hunters appear quaint.
Getting away from it all isn’t new. The whole RV industry is based on it, though campgrounds laid out in grids with conveniences and hookups doesn’t really fulfill the expectation. Still, one of the bigger names in RVs tried a bold experiment back in the mid 1970s.
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