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 ...September 1957 411
(6) In this Vought-Sikorsky
VS-300 (75 h.p. Lycoming),
Igor Sikorsky established a
helicopter endurance record
of 1 hr 33 min on May 6,1941.
(7) The Stinson Detroiter (200
h.p. Wrig...
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 ...APRIL 8TH, 1943 FLIGHT 363
ROTAfcY-WINC AlRCRAFT
blades out at the proper angle. An upper blade touched
a lower and the machine crashed. But such was ever the
fate of the pioneer. Control was achieved...
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 ...362 FLIGHT APRIL 8TH,
ROTARY-WINC AIRCRAFT
The wings of the Rohrbach helicopter pro-
jected 14ft. 6in. on each side of the fuselage.
Maximum speed of the rotor was 420 n.p.m.,
which gave the blades a ...
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 ...HEUCORTERS
Rotary researches
Eurocopter believes
that helicopter
technology could
develop
dramatically over
the next decade.
ANDRZEJ JEZIORSKI/MUNICH
Although ancient toys and drawings show t...
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 ...FLIGHT JANUARY IITH, 1945
HELICOPTERS
was eqnipped with standard wheel gear, the
rther tried out with floats, and it was found
that there was little variation in result between
the two.
In anti-submar...
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 ...APRIL 8TH, 1943 FLIGHT 361
.The German Rohrback "paddle plane " was a helicopter design to a different formula. Therotor blades had their incidence varied as they travelled around the circumference.
r...
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 ...FLIGHT APRIL 8TH, 1943
ROTAR Y-WI N C
AIRCRAFT
seen in. a nightmare. It had
a four-bladed rotor, each of
which carried at its tip a
Bristol Cherub engine driving
a small airscrew. In the nose
there wa...
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 ...JANUARY 13TH, 1944 FLIGHT
HERE AND THERE
J*<~
fcr
mand of the U.S.A.A.F., a day-and-night
service delivers every bomb dropped on
the Japs by the U.S. 14th Air Force and
the petrol for their air...
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 ...626
HER
DECEMBER IOTH, 1942
THERE
To Dispel Doubt
A CERTIFICATE to the effect that the appointment of Col. J. J.
Llewellm, formerly Minister of Aircraft
Pioduction, to be Resident Minister in
...
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 ...FLIGHT
Helicopters show their true value in places
where ground transport is difficult; lumber-
ing areas are an example. The aircraft is a
Hitkr 12E
Some 12,000 Helicopters have
now been Built: Rotat...
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 ...1100 RIGHT International, 22 April 1978
The History of Man-powered Flight by
D. A. Reay (Pergamon Press, Heading-
ton Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 OBW; illus
trated, £7-50). This title deserves a
place o...
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 ...374 MAY 29TH, 1941.
HOVERING
RECORD
Sikorsky's Helicopter Aloft
for 65 Minutes
1AST month, with Igor I. Sikorsky atthe controls, a record-making_V flight of the Vought-SikorskyHelicopter VS-300-A took...
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 ...FLIGHT International,
10 October 1963
607
A LEADING FAMILY
OF ROTARY-WING
AIRCRAFT
By the Technical Editor
When Igor Sikorsky made his first intuitive attempts to fly the VS-300 in September 19...
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 ...SEPTEMBER 3RD, 1942 FLIGHT 261
DEVELOPMENT of the VS-300 HELICOPTER
i j 5
A paper read at the Rotating Wing Aircraft Session of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences b...
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 ...234 FLIGHT AUGUST 31ST, 1944
Helicopter* in Prod net ion
RECENTLY comparatively little has been heard of the Sikorsky helicopters which held the limelight a couple of years ago. Other firms are in t...
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 ...The First.
Igor Sikorsky flew the world's
first practical single main rotor
helicopter on September 14, 1939.
Today, Sikorsky, the company,
is the largest helicopter manufac
turer on earth.
VS....
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 ...oe.U?iW Pl
MAY 14TH, 1942
The first VS-44-A
1,200 h.p. engines.
ON^TOP air servicesJfetween
Few York Cityjyao Foynes,
^jTrrd, gifa+^fnr; inaugurated
under a temporary certificate of con
venien...
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 ...FLIGHT APRIL 8TH, 1943
ROTARY-WINC AIRCRAFT
following year and flown extensively during 1940 and 1941.
The Sikorsky helicopter is of the single-rotor type, with
a torque-compensating airscrew at the s...
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 ...8 FEBRUARY 1952 FLIGHT 7
of pronellers. While the plant will be under the authority of the U.S. Navy, it
will also produce propellers for the U.S. Air Force.
The contract was let in accordance with...
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 ...165 Surprise in the Pacific—the "Zero" (1940) seen in U.S. markings. 166 The Blackburn B.20, of 1940, had a retractable planing bottom
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
1940 Two fighters which gave the Allies s...
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