Mr. Igor Sikorsky’s greatest hope for the helicopter was that it would become an instrument for saving lives. Helicopters are used by civilians only for tourism?
2007-03-02 04:49:05 · 15 answers · asked by clophad 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
10 of the first 11 answers seem to show that this kind of aviation can improve a region's or nation's quality of life and lead to more efficient use of land (no need for runways). Hmmm...Sikorsky is in Connecticut - wonder if they have helicopter taxis. How many helicopters helped New Orleans families during Hurricane Katrina?
2007-03-02 11:20:43 · update #1
We have them at our local hospitals. We have had them for quite some time. Also saw them using one to build a Lowes here in town.
2007-03-02 04:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by matchiowa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there have been no helicopters used for the period of WW II. It wasn't till the 1940's that the helicopter even became a pragmatic flying gadget. Igor Sikorsky released the R-4 in 1942. The R-4 become the international's first industrially produced helicopter and the first helicopter to enter provider with united statesa. military Air Forces, military, and Coast shield, besides as for the united kingdom's Royal Air rigidity and Royal military. It become in the course of the Korean warfare that the helicopter became achievable as a flying platform for wartime use
2016-11-27 00:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, about 25% of helicopter flight hours are used lifting christmas trees.
It sounds retarded, but its actually so much faster to use a helicopter to get the trees out of the fields that they are used in huge numbers.
It only takes a helicopter a few seconds to lift a bundle of trees to the trucks, but it would take over 10 minutes on the ground, and the crews would spend alot of time just waiting for the trucks.
Its only about $80-200 an hour for a chopper, so it only needs to lift maybe 10-20 trees to pay its operating costs for an hour. In reality, they double that every minute.
It would take hundreds of workers to do the same thing, and would end up costing more.
2007-03-03 00:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Doggzilla 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are used as medivac, firefighting, police, TV, heavy-lift, tourism, off shore transport, executive shuttle... the list goes on and on. Look up evergreenaviation.com and ericksonaircrane.com. Many tried to help during hurricane Katrina, but from what I heard from National Guard crews sent there was some got shot at more there than in Iraq! What kind of savages do that?! And there is a scheduled helicopter airline in New York, believe it serves downtown and some of the airports.
2007-03-02 15:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by JET_DOC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helicopters are a very good transport b/c they can land in many places unlike planes. Helicopters help alot in catching criminals especially at night on foot b/c they can hover and they have a spot light that shows exactly where the criminal is without helicopters many criminals would get away from the police.
2007-03-02 05:01:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above (except one) and more. I've drawn samples from volcanic lakes that the fumes would kill anyone approaching from the ground. Next week I'm recovering a crashed airplane. Over the summer I'll be flying contaminated soil out of remote sites. Doing seismic studies, mining support, research support, personnel transport, carrying cargo to remote camps, dropping harbor pilots onto freighters coming into port, and yes, doing the occasional tour.
2007-03-02 09:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by lowflyer1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The list of things a helicopter can do would be quite long.
Transportation, Freight, Crop Dusting, Policing, Surveillance, water bombing, waterskiing, pizza delivery (?)...
Really, the uses are endless, I'd seen one being used to dry a rain soaked cricket ground.
2007-03-02 06:33:46 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
helicopters are doing a great job in the field of agriculture. not only for transportation but also for spraying a large field more effeciently than an air craft. they can be made suspended on a perticilar area on the field. in range management they are used to navigate the farm animals as well as in wild life research they do a great job. they are also used to rescue mountain climbers.
2007-03-02 05:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by arianarians 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UK only, Ted Moult used to test double glazing draught proofing with one on a TV ad in the UK in the 1970's by hovvering a Bell Jet-Ranger outside a window then getting someone to drop a feather on the inside of the window to proove they were good quality. Hows that for 'other uses'? Put that in your school report! :) its true
2007-03-02 09:33:22 · answer #9 · answered by fast eddie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helicopters have many uses, as mentioned they are used in rescue and military, but also they are used by police departments, used for medical evacuation, scenic flights, and in my neck of the woods a lot are used in agricultural spraying of cranberry bogs.
2007-03-02 05:05:33 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are used for logging, where they lift cut-down trees out of the forest. They are used to string power lines. They are use to place repair workers on power line transmission towers. They are used to set heavy air conditioners on rooftops They are used to set building materials on rooftops. They have been used recently in central California to try and prevent frost by hovering over freeze-sensitive crops. They are used on large ranches to herd livestock and "ride" fences.
2007-03-02 13:46:15 · answer #11 · answered by Me again 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋