Donated by the US Army and restored by a dedicated volunteer group led by Rich Angelini and the Gyrodyne Helicopter Historical Foundation, this spindly Cold War relic was utilized by the Navy, Army, and Air Force for everything from target practice to tank-hunting to use as an experimental delivery platform for tactical nuclear weapons.

Deployed on destroyers as part of the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization program (FRAM), DASH helped to extend the useful service of Sumner- and Gearing-class destroyers by 15 years. Representing the world's only example of a DASH exhibited in its original environs, the USS Kennedy's helicopter was dedicated by Peter Papadakos, son of the man who founded the Gyrodyne enterprise, or what Papadakos, who has worked on DASH virtually his whole life, calls, "the family business."

Did you know that the Cold War was the most expensive war ever?

THE COLD WAR: DASH was a product the Cold War, a historical period characterized by social and political unrest between the nuclear superpowers and intermittent violence in the Far East. The acme of tensions was reached during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when Fidel Castro's regime, working in concert with the Soviet Union, installed tactical nuclear missiles just 90 miles from Florida.

The most expensive war ever, the Cold War spanned from the close of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the cost of the arms race effectively bankrupted the USSR.