This is how Igor Sikorsky, designer of US aircraft, demonstrated a test flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 20, 1940 [video, more: buff.ly/2q7vndf]
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Oh, that's where I'm from! Had no idea anything interesting ever happened there!
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Safety first!
I Pioneer I'm his field, barely 80 yrs later the technology is 80% the same. They added only the bubble, the retractable landing gear and few navigation instruments. But the rotor head and the rest is the same.
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the more impressive achievement here is he managing to not be decapitated
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Thank you Igor, without you this wouldn’t have happened..
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Nel 1930 Corradino D’Ascanio fece volare il primo prototipo del suo elicottero a Ciampino, ma il regime decise di non investirci… lui poi fece la Vespa, noi perdemmo un’altra occasione 😢
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Many ethnic Ukrainians have made a huge contribution to the development of aviation and rocket science
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