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The R-4 was the world's first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces, [1] the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. In U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard service, the helicopter was known as the Sikorsky HNS-1.
Ross Perot, Jr. and Jay Coburn used the Spirit of Texas to complete the first round-the-world flight by helicopter. [1] An Australian, Dick Smith, had started the first round the world solo 'around the world' flight in a JetRanger helicopter on August 6, 1982, from Dallas, Texas and successfully completed on July 22 1983. Determined to ...
On 11 December 1951, the Kaman K-225 became the first turbine-powered helicopter in the world. Two years later, on 26 March 1954, a modified Navy HTK-1, another Kaman helicopter, became the first twin-turbine helicopter to fly. [96] However, it was the Sud Aviation Alouette II that would become the first helicopter to be produced with a turbine ...
First flight by an aircraft with a pressurized cabin for high altitude flight: by a modified Engineering Division USD-9A A.S.40118 on June 8, 1921 by Art Smith. [ 143 ] First African–American or Native American or Black person to obtain an international pilot's license : Bessie Coleman on June 15, 1921 on a Nieuport 82 .
The V1's first untethered flight was on 3 August 1940, after over 100 hours of ground and tethered testing. [9] In October, it was flown to the test centre at Rechlin to be demonstrated, and while there set a top speed of 182 km/h (113 mph), a climb rate of 528 m (1,732 ft) per minute, and a maximum altitude of 7,100 m (23,300 ft), [9] performance far greater than had been demonstrated by any ...
The first prototype, the V 1 D-EBVU, had its first free flight on 26 June 1936 with Ewald Rohlfs at the controls. [11] By early 1937, the second prototype, V 2 D-EKRA, was completed and flown for its first flight. [12] On 10 May 1937, it accomplished its first autorotation landing with the engine turned off. [13]
The first "free" flight of the VS-300 was on 13 May 1940. [2] The VS-300 was the first successful single lifting rotor helicopter in the United States and the first successful helicopter to use a single vertical-plane tail rotor configuration for antitorque. With floats attached, it became the first practical amphibious helicopter.
Focke-Wulf constructed Juan de la Cierva's C.19 and C.30 autogyros under license from 1933, and Focke was inspired by it to design the world's first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, which first flew on 26 June 1936 by Hanna Reitsch. In the Deutschlandhalle arena in 1938, it also became the first practical helicopter to be flown indoors.