C. J. Chu
CJC-3A
Major-General C.J.
Chu had designed a couple of small helicopters (dubbed Humming Birds) in
China soon after VJ Day. When the Nationalists fled to Taiwan in
1949, Chu accompanied Chiang
Kai-Shek
in exile and in 1952 designed the CJC-3 seen above. Some mods had
evidently been made
by that time, re-designating the craft the CJC-3A. . This
diminutive chopper had side-by-side seating
for two
and was powered by a centrally-mounted 190 hp Lycoming engine. It
would appear that Chu
had been influenced, somewhat, by Piasecki designs.