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Ages Facts on Helicoper History
Pioneers The beginning ...
Up To 50s "How will they fly if they haven't wings!"
50s The Turboshaft engines arrives
60s Vietnam and others ...
70s The Next Generation ...
Since 80s Who is next ? ...
| Up to 1950s |
US Congress criticized the US Navy for largely ignoring the helicopter's
enormous military potential during a 1943 Senate investigation chaired
by Harry S. Truman
Piasecki PV 3 Dog Ship:
First world's successful tandem-rotor Helicopter (March 7,1945)
See Boeing
Bell 47:
First world's certified civil helicopter NC-1H (March 8, 1946)
See Bell
Mc Donnell Little Henry:
First world's ram-jet helicopter (1947)
See See Mc Donnell Douglas
Sikorsky S-52:
Metal blades rotor (1947)
See Sikorsky
Hiller 360:
First civilian helicopter to cross the United States (1949)
See Hiller
Sikorsky S-51 HO3S-1G
US Coast Guard H035-l completed the longest unescorted helicopter ferry
flight on record. The trip from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to Port Angeles,
Washington, via San Diego, California, a distance of 3,750 miles, took 10 1/2
days to complete and involved a total flight time of 57.6 hours. (April 6,1949)
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| 1950s |
July, 1950:
First North American Helicopter Transcontinental Flight
July 12, 1957:
Dwight Eisenhower became first US President to fly in helicopter
Kaman K-225:
First World's turbine gas powered helicopter (1951)
Sikorsky S-55:
First World's certified commercial transport helicopter (1951)
Sikorsky S-55:
First transatlantic crossing WITH STOPs (1952)
Mc Donnell XV-1:
First successful conversion from vertical rotor lift
to horizontal winged flight (1954)
Sud-Aviation SE 313B Alouette II:
First turbine helicopter enter production (March 12,1955)
April 27, 1955
Jean Ross Howard Phelan establishes the Whirly Girls
Kaman QH-43:
First World's remotely piloted rotor vehicle (1957)
Hiller X-18:
World's first transport-size VTOL aircraft (1959)
Cessna CH-1C (YH-41):
first helicopter CAA-certified for flight in instrument conditions
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| 1960s |
Mil Mi-6:
First to reach the 300 km/h (1961)
See Mil
Kamov Ka-22:
Reach 337 km/h on 100 km circuit (Oct 14,1961)
Mil Mi-8 (plus -14/17):
World's most produced helicopter design
Sikorsky S-65 :
Biggest helicopter of the western world (1964)
Sud-Aviation Super Frelon :
Biggest helicopter built in Western Europe (1965)
See Aerospatiale
Hughes YOH-6 :
Major distance in a straight line for an helicopter: 3.561 Km
(April 6/7,1966)
See McDonnell Douglas
Sikorsky S-61R :
First NON-STOP trans-Atlantic flight by helicopters (1967)
Lockheed XH-51 :
Reach 487 km/h (June, 1967)
Mil Mi-12 :
Largest helicopter yet flown (1968)
Lift 40.204 Kg to 2.255 m (August 9,1969)
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| 1970s |
1972, June 21
Aerospatiale Lama :
Major height for an helicopter 12.442 m
1976
Kaman :
World's first production all-composite rotor blade
Mil Mi-26 :
1977
Biggest operational helicopter and first to operate
successfully with an 8 blades main rotor (1977)
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| Since 1980s |
1982 :
Bell 206 :
First solo crossing of the atlantic Ocean
1986, Aug 11 : Westland Lynx:
Reach 400 Km/h
1987: Bell Boeing Pointer:
World's first tiltrotor RPV.
Boeing Vertol 360:
World's largest all-composite helicopter
1992, December 16 :
Mc.Donnell Douglas MD500D:
Longest over-ocean flight
1994, July 22 :
Bell 206B JetRanger III:
Speed flight record around the world. American Ron Bower
flew the course taking 24½ days to attain an average speed of 65.97 km/h
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