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[lady_kishiria]

Another page into "Quinto Sol". I just realized that there's no such thing as a helicopter in the UC world. This is crazy. Even if they'd fallen out of usage, you'd think that with the onset of the ground war in 0079 that it would have been reinvented real quick. Two of my characters are going to have to drive their mobile suits to a rendezvous when in "real life" it would be most expedient to go by helicopter. Oh well. The things we do for canon.

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[electorprince.livejournal.com]

The Zeon had helicopters. Check MAHQ's 08th MS Team section under "Zeon Support & Other Vehicles". The Federation seems to have relied primarily on Fan-Fan type volanters/hovercraft.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Okay. I hardly ever go into the 08th Team section because of my deep-seated animosity for that OAV, but I can do the cafeteria thing with it.

[youngfreud.livejournal.com]

As electorprince said, the Zeon's had helicopters, giant twin-rotor designs that look larger than a Hind and probably can carry a MS, as seen in MS08th, but light attack helicopters are seen in 0080 as part of the colony defense setup the Riah guys send out to get slaughtered by the Kaempfer. My guess is that they and ducted-fan powered VTOL aircraft see a lot of use inside colonies, as most planes would be extremely limited in their manuervability and speed.

However, if you want to go for a straight UC0079/First Gundam reference, you can use Fan-Fans as a Federation replacement for the helicopter. It's lightweight, carries a decent amount of people, and it's proven (i.e. somewhat real) ducted-fan design, like the Wappa.