Who invented helicopter ?

Answer 1

The Germans in ww2 it had props on port and starboard side, it flew around a stadium INSIDE !

Answer 2

Who Invented A Helicopter

Answer 3

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, XR-4, which he delivered to Colonel Franklin Gregory of the U.S. Army.
The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu in 1907, however, this design was not successful. Another Frenchman, Etienne Oehmichen built and flew a helicopter 1 kilometer in 1924. An early practical helicopter that flew for a decent distance was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61 invented by an unknown inventor.

Igor Sikorsky is considered to be the "father" of helicopters not because he invented the first. He is called that because he invented the first successful helicopter, upon which future designs were based.

Answer 4

Igor Sikorsky is credited with invented the world's first helicopter as we would recognise it.
But the first record of a rotary winged craft dates back to the 4th Century in a book called "Pao Phu Tau" which describes a flying car kept in the air by spinning blades.
In 1480, Leonardo da Vinci drew his famous "airscrew" machine which could never have flown.

In 1939, Igor Sikorsky built and flew his VS-300 in America. His machine had the familiar single main lifting engine and an engine mounted at the rear which gave the pilot directional control. The VS-300 had an open-plan cockpit.

Answer 5

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, XR-4, which he delivered to Colonel Franklin Gregory of the U.S. Army.

The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu in 1907, however, this design was not successful. Another Frenchman, Etienne Oehmichen built and flew a helicopter 1 kilometer in 1924. An early practical helicopter that flew for a decent distance was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61 invented by an unknown inventor.

Igor Sikorsky is considered to be the "father" of helicopters not because he invented the first. He is called that because he invented the first successful helicopter, upon which future designs were based.

Igor I. Sikorsky
Born May 25 1889 - Died Oct 26 1972

Direct-Lift Aircraft; Helicopter and Controls Therefor
Helicopter

Patent Number(s) 2,318,259; 2,318,260

Inducted 1987


Igor I. Sikorsky designed the world's first successful multimotor airplane and the world's first true production helicopter. From 1925 to 1940 he created a series of increasingly successful aircraft which gained for America numerous world records for speed, range and payload. The famed Sikorsky flying 'Clippers' helped pioneer trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific commercial passenger services.

Despite the success of the flying boats, Sikorsky continued studying the helicopter. His U.S. Patent 1,994,488, filed June 27, 1931, marked the crucial breakthrough. In late 1938, United Aircraft management (now United Technologies) approved his experimental helicopter, and on September 14, 1939, the VS-300 made its first flight. In January 1941 the U.S. Army Air Corps issued a contract for an observation helicopter designated the XR-4. The new aircraft flew one year later.

Within months of the delivery of the first units, the R-4 established the helicopter's humanitarian tradition of life-saving missions in military and civil emergencies.

Invention Impact

His single-rotor design, a major breakthrough in helicopter technology, remains the dominant configuration today.

Inventor Bio

Born in Kiev, Russia, Sikorsky was greatly influenced in contemporary science by his mother, a doctor, and his father, a psychology professor. While still a schoolboy he built several model aircraft and helicopters.

After education in Russia and Paris, Sikorsky first achieved international recognition in 1913 when he designed and flew the first multimotor airplane. After the Russian Revolution he emigrated to the United States and reestablished himself as an aircraft designer. Sikorsky received many other patents, including patents for helicopter control and stability systems.

Answer 6

Helicopters are based on a design for a Chinese flying top dating back to 400BC.

Leonardo Da Vinci conceived a practical manned helicopter in 1490.

The first demonstration of a working model was in 1861 by Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt.

The first full sized working flying machine using rotor blades rather than wings was built and flown in 1907 by Paul Cornu.

Answer 7

Paul Cornu in 1907

Answer 8

Sikorsky.

Answer 9

Leonardo Da Vinci came up with the concept.

Answer 10

A guy by the name Sikorski.