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How the US Army’s first helicopter failed

The XR-1 was the US Army’s first serious helicopter experiment. This video explains why it struggled. Mechanical complexity ...
82 years ago today, a U.S. Coast Guard pilot flew history’s first helicopter rescue mission. On January 3, 1944, Coast Guard Pilot Frank Erickson flew straight into the teeth of a raging storm to ...