Wingless Helicopter Flies Straight Upward
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Vertical flight with full control has been achieved with a wingless helicopter built by Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer. Primitive in appearance, the ship is equipped with a variable pitch “windmill” rotor, two tiny rotors at the rear of the fuselage to act as elevators, and a third one serving as the rudder. Driven by a seventy-five horsepower engine, it ascended in a test flight straight up to a height of thirty feet, flew 200 feet around the field, and then came straight down to a safe landing. Further development of this type of aircraft, Mr. Sikorsky believes, may completely revolutionize flying.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Wingless Helicopter Flies Straight Upward
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Wingless Helicopter Flies Straight Upward
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-09
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 3, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 380
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- References (Dublin Core)
- Igor Sikorsky
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
