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The helicopter history site traces the evolution of rotary wing aircraft back to Leonardo Da Vinci
"A helicopter is an assembly of forty thousand loose pieces, flying more or less in formation"
Although fixed-wing aircraft receive all the attention by most historians, helicopter flight was the first flight envisioned by man. In fact, the ancient Chinese were playing with a hand-spun toy that
The Mi-26 , which was seen in public for the first time at the 1981 Paris Air Show, is the result of a specification issued at the beginning of the seventies for a transport helicopter whose empty weight, without fuel, was not to exceed half the maximum take-off weight. It first flew on 14 December
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