Talk:USCGC Cobb

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With regards to the caption: "The world's first helicopter landing on a helicopter carrier" – does the picture show the world's first helicopter per se? I don't think it does, and that makes the caption confusing. How about "The world's first instance of a helicopter landing on a helicopter carrier" for clarity? Seegoon (talk) 09:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

First Helicopter Carrier?

The Kriegsmarine did some trials with Flettner Fl 282s flying of a purpose-built deck at the rear of a ship, the Köln, in the Baltic in 1941. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.115.48 (talk) 11:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I want to make it more concrete:

The first landing of a helicopter - a Cierva C30 autogyro was 1934 on the Spanish seaplane carrier Dedalo.

The Yugoslav minelayer Zmaj was captured by Germany and rebuild as aircraft rescue ship, minelayer and escort ship Drache in 1941. In 1942 she became a helicopter landing deck and operated 1942 and in January–February 1943 Flettner Fl282 Kolibri helicopters in the role of submarine chaser. So clearly before USCG Cobb.

I assume the argument here is that it was the first helicopter landing on a helicopter carrier. But when looking there, it says "ship with primary purpose to carry helicopters". But finally this definition would never be true - typically the primary role is ASW or coastal landing operations or.... And that was also true for the German Drache. It looks like the article has to be corrected. Any further opinions? --JuergenKlueser (talk) 18:35, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

If no other arguments arise, my idea is to change in the first chapter to USCGC Cobb in the hands of the Coast Guard became the first US helicopter carrier. The picture subtitle could be used like from the imgs original description - slightly shortened - kind of Sikorsky helicopters conducting experimental flight operations on USCGC Cobb --JuergenKlueser (talk) 08:14, 30 January 2020 (UTC)