Helicopter

Invented on
Age
Thursday September 14, 1939
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Basic information
Category
inventions
Country
United States
Description
Type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. The helicopter can take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally.
The VS-300, the world’s first practical helicopter, took flight on September 14,1939
Developed from the VS-300, Sikorsky's R-4 was the first large-scale mass-produced helicopter (mass productions starts in 1942)
In U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard service, the helicopter was known as the Sikorsky HNS-1. In British service it was known as the Hoverfly.
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