Military flying platforms the Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee & HZ-1 Aerocycle

3D models of military flying platforms the Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee and HZ-1 Aerocycle. Both models are mid-polygonal, made for cinema, UVs are decomposed into one common texture set with 4k resolution. Both models are animated - rotation and bending of the propellers under load, engine vibration, takeoff, hover and landing kinematics.

VZ-1 was a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control.

The platform was developed starting in 1953 under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) contract to Hiller Aircraft, and flew successfully beginning in 1955.

The HZ-1 Aerocycle, also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer's designation DH-5 Aerocycle, was an American one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s.

Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction, the HZ-1 was expected to become a standard reconnaissance machine with the United States Army.