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1940 newspaper IGOR SIKORSKY DEMONSTRATES his new INVENTION of THE HELICOPTER - inv # 5O-314
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Bridgeport Times-Star (CT) dated May 21, 1940. This newspaper contains a front page heading with LOCAL COVERAGE of the first public demonstration of the HELICOPTER by its inventor, IGOR SIKORSKY. This demonstaration took place at the Bridgeport (CT) Airport.
This is a LOCAL FIRST REPORT marking the first public demonstration of the HELICOPTER by its inventor IGOR SIKORSKY.
The VS-300 helicopter, created and flown by Russian-American Igor Sikorsky, was first demonstrated on May 20, 1940 in Bridgeport, CT. As the first American single main rotor helicopter, it rose 15-20 feet above the ground and traveled 200 feet forward before hovering, backing up, and landing. Its original design and subsequent improvements can be seen in most modern helicopters.
Igor Sikorsky is considered to be the "father" of helicopters not because he was the first to invent it, but because he invented the first successful helicopter upon which further designs were based.
One of aviation's greatest designers, Russian-born Igor Sikorsky began work on helicopters as early as 1910. By 1940, Igor Sikorsky's successful VS-300 had become the model for all modern single-rotor helicopters. He also designed and built the first military helicopter, the XR-4, which he delivered to Colonel Franklin Gregory of the U.S. Army.
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