England Many important advances in helicopter technology were made in Europe, with Germany playing a leading role. In England, however, little attention was paid to the helicopter until 1944. That year, the Bristol Aeroplane Company created a Helicopter Division, which was ultimately named Bristol Helicopters. Related Article – Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATP): 4 Things Read More…
When helicopters first became a viable form of air travel, they were mostly utilized by the military. But there are also great commercial and civil uses for helicopters, and thousands of them have been used for such functions worldwide. The first commercial helicopter was the Sikorsky S-51. The most popular early model was the Bell Read More…
Glen Curtiss developed the first float-plane in 1912, and he produced more than 7,000 JN Jenny’s in World War I. The Navy-Curtiss 4 made the first staged aerial crossing of the Atlantic in 1919. The aircraft became more militarized due to World War I nationalism. In 1931, Britain’s Supermarine S.6B became the inspiration for the Read More…
The Wright brothers are generally credited with developing the airplane, but helicopters have a much longer and troubled history. Engineers, inventors, and scientists around the world worked to turn the idea of the “gyroplane” into a working machine. But they lacked the necessary knowledge to control the aeronautical forces that lifted a helicopter off the Read More…
The mechanics that make helicopter flight possible have been around for centuries. In ancient China, children put slightly twisted feathers on sticks and rapidly spin them, so that they would lift into the air and gently fly back to the ground. In ancient Greece, the mathematician and inventor Archimedes created a rotating screw for a Read More…