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From: fredc@bmcg.UUCP (Fred Cordes)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: helicopter inventor
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 11:58:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 11:58:20 1985
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Isn't Igor Sikorsky still credited with building the first practical
helicopters? Da Vinci never flew, and there are old movies of rotor
equipped flying machines barely leaving the ground, but the real 
builder/flyer seems (I think) to be Sikorsky. 

There was a discussion on the net about the first operational helos 
some months ago. Did anyone describe the first machine?

fredc