A helicopter, bird club grinder, whisk or by any other name has been made on postcards, rubber and other cards for half a century. A helicopter is an aircraft without wings that move in any direction or hover in the air.
Historians generally credit the Russian-born Igor Sikorsky America and the successful test flight in 1939 that the first flight of the helicopter. There are other names in the development of the helicopter involved.
To lift overhead knife through the rotor blades rotating about a vertical axis. This rapid mobility and the ability to take off from a small space is a unique machine.
In the mid-1800s in France pontoon Amécourt Wirtergustave helicopter word coined to describe the concept of rotating blades to carry out the flight.
Experts do not agree when it comes to the development of the helicopter in the 1900s. They knew exactly Sikorski with a rubber band powered flying machine, when he was only twelve years old experiments. He’d finally to the Russian Naval Academy and the Polytechnic Institute of Russian helicopters before they go to other experiences.
In 1907, the French brothers, Jacques and Louis Breguet success with a helicopter like a helicopter had. Progress was reported shortly after the French inventor Paul Cornu with Denmark and Ellehammer Jacob.
In 1917, Sikorsky left Russia became a U.S. citizen. Qualified inventor has developed a four-engined aircraft of the Russian Air Force. He found some investors and started a company to continue his research.
In late summer of 1939, Sikorsky VS-300 was developed to launch and land vertically. It may also be suspended in one place.
Will be made in 1942 XR-4 model. More than 100 in 1942 and built over 400 operating by the end of World War II.
In 1944, Stanley Hiller Jr. called strong metal blades make the helicopter in the air faster. He was also the first to steal his invention by the United States.
In 1946, Arthur Young, the first helicopter built for civilian use. The Bell 47 is a plane that is very popular for several decades thereafter.
In 1951 during the Korean War, tactical helicopters for military weapons. It was used to move the group into battle. It also meets the leadership to move the wounded and provide water to the battlefield.
The presidential helicopter is the first in 1957 was commissioned. Years later described as an army. Finally craft operations became the responsibility of the Navy. The aircraft was then known as Marine One.
In 1960 during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military use of helicopters for combat missions and raids.
In 1970, the helicopter-rotor-craft have been in service for all types of tasks, including transporting mail and passengers back and pushed her to the airport.
In 1975 it is estimated that more than 2,500 civil helicopters are performing.
Before the end of the Encyclopedia of the family of the twentieth century American history is quoted as saying this about the rotorcraft. “Set to work today serves as a diver as the highway traffic watch, Air Sea Rescue, the plants of dust and military transport aircraft, the helicopter is the most versatile aircraft in the world.
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