I'm digging a ditch
Where madness lives
I'm digging a ditch
Where my silence lives 
Sorry for digging out another old topic but...
We have 3 S62A's here in Australia...
My jaw dropped into apartment bellow.
So that's where old helicopters go to die
Although seriously, for me, the S-62
was is quite interesting one (by "interesting" I mean bizarre). The first and pretty much only big scale operator was the USCG, that bought them for replacement of the HO4S and... HUS-1G - which was the old and trusted (everywhere else) H-34/S-58 SeaHorse/Choctaw. Now, the Seahorse didn't get along with the Coast Guard very well, between 1959 and 1963 they bought 6 that were operating out of CGAS New Orleans, but lost half of them barely with any survivors. Even though Sikorsky at the time was experimenting with turbine powered S-58s, USCG went all out for HH-52s, and bought 99 of them. The thing is, the S-62 is pretty much an old S-55/H-19 Chickasaw that first flew in 1949 (!) with switched fuselage and a T58 turbine engine. Here lies the cause of the rather poor performance and painfully slow speed.
I'm amazed someone is still operating them
I'm not flying them, but that would be the last helicopter on my list for fighting fires. Mind you, the T58 in that thing is de-rated to 750 or so shp, you can actually get better performance with an Astar. TH-1F would be better suited for the job, if we want to stick to the single General Electric T58s
