var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "The official name of this aircraft is the Iroquois. But early on, the Army's 2-letter designation for it was HU-1 for "Helicopter Utility". Thus it received the "Huey" even after it was changed to UH-1H.

Since 1956, more than 16,000 H-1s have been manufactured, making this the most successful military aircraft in history. In all, it has had a combined 27 million hours of flight.

The Huey was a familiar site in the Viet Nam war. It has seen distinguised service for its role in transport, air-based battle command, troop deployment, fire fighting coordination, medical evac., search and rescue, armed escort, reconnaissance and others."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }