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Made in the 1950s by the Shell Oil Co., this film "History of the Helicopter" features a look at the revolutionary machine that, at the time the film was made, had only recently come into wide use. The film features a brief look back at some of the failed attempts to build a helicopter, and discusses Breguet, Sikorsky, Berliner and others who were convinced that rotary wings were the answer to the problem of flying. The film also shows the autogiro, a relative of the helicopter. Modern helicopters shown include the Bristol 171, the Airhorse by Cierva, Sikorsky S-51, Piasecki flying banana, and the Fairey Gyrodyne.
The Cierva W.11 Air Horse was a helicopter developed by the Cierva Autogiro Company in the United Kingdom during the mid-1940s. The largest helicopter in the world at the time of its debut, the Air Horse was unusual for using three rotors mounted on outriggers, and driven by a single engine mounted inside the fuselage.
Louis Charles Breguet (January 2, 1880 in Paris - May 4, 1955 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers. In 1905, with his brother Jacques, and under the guidance of Charles Richet, he began work on a gyroplane (the forerunner of the helicopter) with flexible wings. It achieved the first ascent of a vertical-flight aircraft with a pilot in 1907. He built his first fixed-wing aircraft, the Breguet Type I in 1909, flying it successfully before crashing it at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation held at Reims. In 1911 he founded the Société anonyme des ateliers d’aviation Louis Breguet. In 1912, Breguet constructed his first hydroplane.
He is especially known for his development of reconnaissance aircraft used by the French in World War I and through the 1920s. One of the pioneers in the construction of metal aircraft, the Breguet 14 single-engined day bomber, perhaps one of the most widely used French warplanes of its time, had an airframe constructed almost entirely of aluminium structural members. As well as the French, sixteen squadrons of the American Expeditionary Force also used it.
In 1919, he founded the Compagnie des messageries aériennes, which evolved into Air France.
Over the years, his aircraft set several records. A Breguet plane made the first nonstop crossing of the South Atlantic in 1927. Another made a 4,500-mile (7,200 km) flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1933, the longest nonstop Atlantic flight up to that time.
He returned to his work on the gyroplane in 1935. Created with co-designer René Dorand, the craft, called the Gyroplane Laboratoire, flew by a combination of blade flapping and feathering. On December 22, 1935, it established a speed record of 67 mph (108 km/h). It was the first to demonstrate speed as well as good control characteristics. The next year, it set an altitude record of 517 feet (158 m).
Breguet remained an important manufacturer of aircraft during World War II and afterwards developed commercial transports. Breguet’s range equation, for determining aircraft range, is also named after him. He died of a heart attack in 1955 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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@davidcarroll8735
@davidcarroll8735 Год назад
My favorite Periscope film to date! I’m a Patreon supporter as well.
@PeriscopeFilm
@PeriscopeFilm Год назад
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@timrussell1559
@timrussell1559 Год назад
As a helicopter pilot for 26 years now i cannot stress enough the respect that is owed to the pilots and engineers who risked(and often lost) their lives in pursuit of the modern aircraft that we have today. Those brave and brilliant people provided us with a technology that the modern world simply could not endure without. Hats off to them all!
@PacoOtis
@PacoOtis Год назад
Thanks for your comment as we often tend to forget the shoulders we are standing on that got us here!
@xaguass
@xaguass Год назад
Could not write a better note. Thanks
@willymac5036
@willymac5036 Год назад
Respect for your comment! Most people don’t realize it, but modern society would literally grind to a halt without vertical lift technology! From building construction, to the power grid, to the oil/gas industry, to search and rescue, to emergency firefighting, there are many jobs out there that are REQUIRED for modern society to function, and they can ONLY be accomplished with helicopters!
@stefan621
@stefan621 Год назад
Helion Group ! Earth, moon, & Mar ! Three Keys : Deer Key, Afilia, so; Siesta 123456 ----- i.e. ez Ps 116:3 ? Pps Thievery in every IN"D•us•"trial Nation on Earth ! Aviation ? You bet
@johndoyle4723
@johndoyle4723 Год назад
Perhaps the invention that has saved more lives than anything else. Not just rapid rescue from accidents, but ferrying aid and rescue after natural disasters,firefighting,delivering aid and medicines to difficult places etc. Sadly mankind has also corrupted the invention as a war machine,fairly inevitable really.
@saaamember97
@saaamember97 Год назад
I remember in my youth, one of the more fonder memories I have of my father, is when he would take us out to the firefighting mockup on Randolph AFB, TX. There, we would see the base firefighters get some practice putting out aircraft fires. It would usually be just before sunset, when they'd light-up the big aircraft mockup out on the far east side of the base. I used to marvel at the thick clouds of black oil smoke, as it slowly lifted into the air. However, the greatest sight of all, was when they'd fly out the Kaman HH-43 Huskie rescue helicopter. It was pure magic to me seeing it all take place. Every so often, they'd do it after the Sun went down, and they'd employ big bright searchlights. The nighttime scene of the fire, smoke, huge sprays of water and foam, extremely huge firetrucks, the helicopter, and the pure awesome sound of it all, still echoes in my fading 65 year old memory.
@eddyriley2055
@eddyriley2055 2 года назад
for anybody interested in helicopters , this historic footage is a must.thank you.
@danielcruz8347
@danielcruz8347 Год назад
Igor '' Sky Rotor '' Sikorsky 1889-1972 USA was very fortunate to have his expertise early on!!! Bless his heart.
@Optimistic7718
@Optimistic7718 Год назад
1928/9/9 Oszkár Asboth 👆🏻
@Lousysalsero
@Lousysalsero Год назад
Unbelievable how far we've come... This film was made in 1952, the year in which I was born.
@general5104
@general5104 Год назад
Ah hah...an old man...I was born in 53 🤔😜I feel 90
@derekstocker6661
@derekstocker6661 Год назад
What a detailed and amazing history lesson this has been. Amazing old film certainly that I have never seen before, and the pioneering technology that gave us the wonderful "choppers" we have now. Thanks for this, very well done, and a thoroughly interesting story.
@peterlittlehorse5695
@peterlittlehorse5695 Год назад
I always love the narrator's voice in these old documentaries.
@davidb2206
@davidb2206 Год назад
Why can't we have that dignity again? Same with Walter Cronkite.
@peterlittlehorse5695
@peterlittlehorse5695 Год назад
@@davidb2206 Because anything other than "Vocal Fry" is elitist. LOL.
@DAS-Videos
@DAS-Videos Год назад
It is a little sad that the early great invisonists who worked on flight never lived to see such machines that we take for granted today.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
You're a little sad.
@sabre-ub3op
@sabre-ub3op Год назад
They say if you worship a man in the sky that you can see down here after you leave Earth
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Год назад
Very sad. I often think how much previous generations and civilisations would have loved to see the tech we have now, and how I wish I could see the tech that might be invented 500 or 1,000 years from now.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Oh please....
@herrakaarme
@herrakaarme Год назад
Those guys actually saw the real revolution of mankind being able to fly, powered and controlled, for the first time. They also lived the time when things changed rapidly and massively. I wouldn't say they were unlucky. Nowadays, things are so established and regulated that change is slow. The biggest change of our time will be electric flying vehicles of various kinds, especially those going autonomous without human pilots, only carrying passengers.
@flyingdutchman4794
@flyingdutchman4794 2 года назад
1. It's easy to chuckle at these 70-year-old documentaries, and sobering to think about what our posterity will make of us 70 years hence. 2. Thank-you for posting the classic footage of unsuccessful flying machines. The "bouncing umbrella", with its canopy flapping up and down as parts scatter in all directions, is my favorite, I think.
@johncocchia210
@johncocchia210 2 года назад
You make it sound like they should have gotten the invention of flight in one shot. Many failures before success.
@itinerantpatriot1196
@itinerantpatriot1196 2 года назад
I taught aircraft mechanics for the Canadian Forces for a few years and as of 2010 we were using the Shell films on supersonic flight. The students used to get a kick out of some of the visuals, especially the toy cow walking along a board that was lifted an angle to explain the transition zone along a swept wing, but the theories were sound and the films made it easier for me to explain supersonic flight. I love these old vids.
@haweater1555
@haweater1555 2 года назад
I think the "bouncing umbrella" only gets up in the air due to the reaction of the inertia of the downstroke. Of course, every upstroke would slam it towards the ground again.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
3. I am addicted to numbering things.
@michaelmartinez1345
@michaelmartinez1345 Год назад
These scenes are very interesting!!! Great stock footage and very descriptive explanations of the basics of rotating wing flight....
@alexcarter8807
@alexcarter8807 Год назад
This is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. Tons and tons of crazy looking old helicopters. Even the "latest" at the time this was made, in the 1950s, look pretty goofy.
@thomasnikkola5600
@thomasnikkola5600 2 года назад
I'm pretty much a rotorhead being an ABH3 V1 Div USS Boxer LHD4. It still astounds me how something so not aerodynamic can actually fly! Very interesting video!
@embededfabrication4482
@embededfabrication4482 Год назад
The rotor is an airfoil, what's not aerodynamic?
@sambecker2045
@sambecker2045 Год назад
In a nut Shell, thank you! Where have all the good films gone.
@roywilkowski2326
@roywilkowski2326 Год назад
I never gave it much thought while actually on the controls, but every time I went through transition training to a new aircraft, I was quietly amazed how so many moving parts had to work in concert with each other and that my life depended on it.
@azynkron
@azynkron Год назад
That's why you want to keep the mechanics happy and on your side :)
@thejerseyj9422
@thejerseyj9422 2 года назад
Anybody remember "The Whirlybirds" TV show from the 50's ? Chuck and PT were my heroes and I was going to be a helicopter pilot ! I wound up driving trucks but that's life and I've done OK so I'm not complaining but I regret not chasing my dream. P S, that show was just in time for the "Helicopter War" that was coming.
@dirckthedork-knight1201
@dirckthedork-knight1201 2 года назад
Vietnam right?
@garykerkstra1067
@garykerkstra1067 2 года назад
Whirlybirds was a " can't miss" for me. Full episodes are on RU-vid.
@jaminova_1969
@jaminova_1969 2 года назад
Korea. There was some limited use of helicopters at the end of WW2 for "Search & rescue".
@borusa32
@borusa32 2 года назад
Yes,I loved that show
@mikedrown2721
@mikedrown2721 2 года назад
Yes, I remember this show. I was born in 1946
@RobB-vz2vo
@RobB-vz2vo Год назад
Helicopters: *Thwarting natural selection* since Nov 29th 1945. On November 29, 1945, a Sikorsky R-5 hovered over a grounded oil barge in Long Island Sound off Fairfield, CT, to perform the first helicopter hoist rescues in aviation history. The rescue site was a short flight from the Sikorsky factory in Connecticut.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
zzzzzz...
@douglasthompson8927
@douglasthompson8927 Год назад
my butt itches
@Optimistic7718
@Optimistic7718 Год назад
1928/9/18 Oszkár Asboth 👆🏻
@truckerray7533
@truckerray7533 4 года назад
But yet, there are still millions of us who still to this very day in 20/20, do not have our own personal helicopter, much less afford one. I would love to have a single place Helicycle helicopter or a 2 place Rotor Way Exec, a Hughes C-300/Schwitzer300, or a Bell 47G. All these aircraft are way to expensive to own & care for. For millions of us is only but a dream to this very day. To try to think about going to a helicopter flight school is just simply outrageous in terms of $$$$$$$$$ cost! I give Igor Sikorski all helicopter credit for the helos we know & see today
@stejer211
@stejer211 4 года назад
Look up 'Mosquito helicopter' and be pleasantly surprised.
@truckerray7533
@truckerray7533 4 года назад
@@stejer211 thankyou. i will. take care.
@andreschapero3615
@andreschapero3615 2 года назад
Paramotors, the future of sport aviation. Cheap, safe.
@truckerray7533
@truckerray7533 2 года назад
@@stejer211 Yes i know of the Mosquito helicopter, thankyou.
@eddyriley2055
@eddyriley2055 2 года назад
@@truckerray7533 used rotorway execs are cheap too especially the exec90, i got mine for £7k unfinished,unloved, still restoring it 4+ years later. it runs,hovers, there is not enough cash left for full training,but i did enough training, to have fun. do it ray, you have earned it.(im a trucker too) good luck.
@general5104
@general5104 Год назад
I'm quite tickled to have seen this old film. It reminded me of some of the films that were shown, when I first started night school, learning the Machinist trade. I'm glad to have this film in my memory, now. THANK YOU for posting it.
@Davett53
@Davett53 Год назад
My friend growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his dad began buying educational documentaries from schools, all around Cleveland. 16mm films covering every topic, from "good hygiene", to how things work, science movies, and ones on every topic imaginable,...in the end he amassed hundreds of amazing B&W 16mm movies. When his Pop died in the 1980s, we tried to find someone to take over his collection. We found only a couple people who wanted them. I found a guy who worked with movie productions in Hollywood, he said he could sell individual clips to movie makers who wanted include a historic film, into a story line. We sold him around 100 movies. I believe most of them went to city dump. It was a shame, those old B&W movie documentaries were well produced, and very informative.
@landofstan246
@landofstan246 Год назад
Most of Americas history is in a land fill. Recycle, recycle, blah blah blah.
@Davett53
@Davett53 Год назад
@@landofstan246 When I was trying to find takers of my friend's Dad's movie collection, I was surprised that there were at least 3 younger people who were into collecting older, films. There has to be more, some in every city. One of the guys I never connected with I had been told about, built a whole mini movie theater in his house, for viewing his collection of old films. This was way before the whole in-home theaters trend, we see today. Old films, old projectors, old editing & repair equipment. My buddy's Dad had all that and more. He turned his dining room into an editing room, he had a 12 foot wide movie screen, hidden in a custom enclosure in his ceiling, and a remote control, that would allow it to unroll & drop down. It covered a whole wall in their living room. He even bought an outdoor screen from an old "drive-in movie", that he could set up in his backyard. His Dad was a real eccentric character. I agree, tons of that stuff went into landfills, and is gone forever....but some it survived., too.
@itinerantpatriot1196
@itinerantpatriot1196 2 года назад
I was a C-130 Crew Chief so I'm partial to fixed wing aircraft (loved the Herc back then) but I worked at a rescue squadron that had H-60's (Blackhawks). THAT is a very good chopper. I also worked at a unit that H-53's and THAT was a bucket of bolts. When I deployed as a maintenance controller during Desert Calm there were days I had to send status reports back stateside informing the higher ups that we had no rescue capabilities and THAT didn't go over very well. We had three 53's. On a typical day, one was airworthy, one was hard broke and used to steal parts from, and one was almost airworthy. During my time in rescue we had three crashes, two involving loss of life. All were choppers. Now, I'm not saying choppers are dangerous, but we never lost a Herc while I was working on them. I had chances to fly in a chopper but I passed on them. I logged a lot of hours on the C-130 and didn't see the need to press my luck. But the chopper guys were okay so please don't get mad or think I'm bad mouthing your bird. Just not my cupa-tea is all. ☕
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 Год назад
A bro of mine was in a special forces 53-crew, later he was an instructor. Their stuff flew pretty good, he stayed in for 20+ years.
@roywilkowski2326
@roywilkowski2326 Год назад
Please, it's not a 'chopper.' A chopper is a motorcycle, most often of American lineage, with the forks extended to such a degree as to make it unsafe in anything but a straight line. They're mostly operated by grungy looking individuals trying to impress the world with their "bad-assiness." There is nothing remotely in common with helicopters and the pilots who fly them.
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 Год назад
@@roywilkowski2326 "whirlybirds" is my favorite.
@felixcat9318
@felixcat9318 2 года назад
I have loved helicopters ever since seeing them on tv after school when footage from Vietnam would be shown. In all the following decades I had never seen nor heard of the triple rotor configuration and had no idea that such a layout was even possible! To see it in this lovely film was a remarkable eye opener, likewise seeing the tip jet helicopter at night where the tip jet illumination gave the aircraft a gently glowing halo! Thank you for this lovely film.
@flechette3782
@flechette3782 2 года назад
Yes, the triple rotor configuration is weird. I can't figure out which rotor rotates in what direction. There is no tail rotor so the three rotors must cancel out torque by themselves. Being an odd number, they cannot do that simply by rotating in opposite directions. Some sort of cyclic pitch changes?
@garyp4374
@garyp4374 2 года назад
My love of helicopters come from Skippy the Bush kangaroo lol
@felixcat9318
@felixcat9318 2 года назад
@@flechette3782 Over the decades I have read countless books on virtually every aspect of helicopters, yet never have I seen anything about the Triple Rotor Configuration! Had I not seen it in this film, I wouldn't have believed that such a thing was possible. I will try to find out about it and update the comments section.
@flechette3782
@flechette3782 2 года назад
@@felixcat9318 Thanks. I would enjoy any information you can dig up. Three rotors is really weird. I would not have even considered it if I was designing the new helicopter. I wonder why they chose such a weird system. What was the driver?
@alexcarter8807
@alexcarter8807 Год назад
Why wouldn't triple rotors work? Kids play with quad copters now.
@ArmyOne519
@ArmyOne519 Год назад
Thank You for this information about the Helicopter 🚁
@stevew6138
@stevew6138 2 года назад
You really should have shown more footage of the German effort. They were flying choppers in Russia by 1943.
@romaneberle
@romaneberle Год назад
well I guess at the time this Shell movie was made the German tech maybe wasn't fully discovered and/or publicized. but apart from that: ohyeah, Flettner 282 Kolibri :-)
@stevew6138
@stevew6138 Год назад
@@romaneberle That's a good point, well taken.
@rand49er
@rand49er Год назад
It's amazing how people persevered back in the day to develop helicopters as viable means of transport and to fill a need for stationary flight. They no doubt were called crackpots for wasting time and energy on something so crazy. Thanks for this video.
@CJ-nt4cs
@CJ-nt4cs Год назад
As a 60 year old baby Boomer I was very fortunate to grow up with the son of Louis "Whatcha" McCollum. He taught me how to fly a Bell 47G4 and the day I made my solo outside my mom and dad's backyard they took a life insurance policy out on me.
@chrisball3634
@chrisball3634 2 года назад
Wonderful film footage....thanks, Shell..👍👍👍👍
@almac2598
@almac2598 2 года назад
Denny's Yard of Dumbarton, Scotland had a flying prototype helicopter before the First World War. From memory on seeing the model and drawings in their museum (Denny's Tank Museum, the tank being a large water tank used to develop ship hulls and propellers) it was a little like modern drones with 4 main rotor discs. Development was put to one side so the yard could concentrate on war work. and never resurrected.
@rodanderson8490
@rodanderson8490 2 года назад
Cierva solved the rotor problem with his autogyro and patented every part of it's continued development. The US government told Sikorski and Bell Helicopters to ignore Cierva's patents when they developed their helicopters. Fairey in the UK developed the Fairey Rotodyne VTOL transport in the early 1950s that was safely flying 20+ passengers between London and Paris at 200+ mph. It was an autogyro with jets on its rotor tips used only for takeoffs and landings. The British government forced a merger between Fairey and Layland Helicopters and Layland had everything to do with the Fairey Rotodyne destroyed so it's R&D would not interfere with Layland building more helicopters. Corrupt POLITICS once again screwed aviation development, just like it is now attempting to do with the SpaceX Starship.
@aj-2savage896
@aj-2savage896 Год назад
Sikorsky. Westland.
@thomaslawrence2210
@thomaslawrence2210 Год назад
Not correct. Sikorsky made use of some of Cierva's ideas, but licensed them and paid appropriate royalties. Westland built Silorsky designs under license.
@PFLEONARDI0906
@PFLEONARDI0906 2 года назад
Nice video. Sikorsky was really the one who understood the physics of the blade and their controls - those physics laws were gyroscopic precession and procession.
@PeriscopeFilm
@PeriscopeFilm 2 года назад
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@JohnDoe-pv2iu
@JohnDoe-pv2iu 2 года назад
My Uncle Donald was an engineer for Sikorsky for over 30 years. He had many patents and was the reason my mother wanted to be an engineer. This wasn't 'Normal' in the 1950s for a woman. She had to travel from New York to Alabama to get into school, it was the only engineering school that would accept her. She wound up being the first woman to attend the University of Alabama's engineering school... Roll Tide! Nice video. Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John
@Optimistic7718
@Optimistic7718 Год назад
Oszkár Asboth 1928/9/9👆🏻
@alexcarter8807
@alexcarter8807 Год назад
This is a great old film. I'm reminded of the book *Brave New World* where the characters have a saying, "Safe as helicopters". That book was published in 1932 and well, at that time, helicopters were barely a thing and certainly not safe! But writing now, in 2022, that's exactly how we think of them now - as something safe, a rescuer in roles like air ambulance or rescues in the wilderness or at sea, or a guardian in such roles as police work or military, or as a benign way to see the sights, like in helicopter tours which most people think no more of than they think of getting on a tour bus.
@jackpontiac52
@jackpontiac52 Год назад
My 1st ride in a Helicopter was in September 1978 in Long Beach California. It was a 'M*A*S*H Type' helicopter. 5 minute ride around the Queen Mary for $5 ! In fact, this was my 1st ever ride in an Aircraft. In December of the same year, I flew to Las Vegas with PWA . Not to many people can say that their first ride in an Aircraft was in a helicopter.
@philipwalker5405
@philipwalker5405 Год назад
Hey I too road with that dude 1977 port o call. I heard afterwards he crashed into the water but I do not remember if was before or after my ride. Seems like it happened a few times. Once we were way up in the sky, I looked over at the pilot and realized I didn't know anything about this dude 😳
@jackpontiac52
@jackpontiac52 Год назад
@@philipwalker5405 It was along time ago ! 44-45 years ago !
@brianazmy3156
@brianazmy3156 2 года назад
My first helicopter flight was in a Blackhawk at ft.Bragg at night. I'll never forget that glittering halo.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
That never happened.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
@bill conway Oh Bill... switch to decaffeinated.
@vincentchaza8111
@vincentchaza8111 Год назад
The Blackhawk is my favorite of all helicopters
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
@@vincentchaza8111 No it's not.
@harveyolitsky4341
@harveyolitsky4341 2 года назад
The helicopter, Gods gift to mankind.
@raymondwelsh6028
@raymondwelsh6028 2 года назад
I still think the Sikorsky Dragon Fly is still one of the best looking helicopters around.🇦🇺
@cowboybob7093
@cowboybob7093 2 года назад
I had to look it up, but yeah the Sikorsky H-5 really set a high bar.
@Critter145
@Critter145 Год назад
For all our technology, there are some respects in which we still basically live in the eighteenth century.
@adeladd7638
@adeladd7638 Год назад
I like James May's comment on planes V. helicopters - 'Fixed wing aircraft use the laws of physics to fly,rotary wing aircraft beat them into submission'.
@garyp4374
@garyp4374 2 года назад
20 years before Vietnam and the Huey where they were very valuable to the Australian and American troops
@billruss6704
@billruss6704 Год назад
set a whirled record.
@fishdude666ify
@fishdude666ify Год назад
One of mankind's greatest inventions IMO is the swashplate. It's such a weird, counterintuitive idea.
@allanhughes7859
@allanhughes7859 Год назад
The only thing i seem to have ever done in my life that was outstanding was fly a simulator helicopter during an R.A.F. induction day and got full marks from the off set ??? God knows why but I did and even to this day I remember the controls and what you had to do to fly the machine Sadly I did not take up the offer and contined to work for a super market chain !!!!!! Not all was lost met some great folk and my wife so always a plus to a minus as they say ??????????? But hell just think what I could have been doing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great up load and so so interesting so thanks for that ..
@jeffgrave
@jeffgrave Год назад
Interesting that the first helicopters were quad-copters!
@Oliverdobbins
@Oliverdobbins 3 года назад
That does it! I’m buying a Helicopter!
@eddyriley2055
@eddyriley2055 2 года назад
get a copy of bob masons "chickenhawk" about his experience flying "hueys" in vietnam. you will sell your kids to get one!
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 2 года назад
@@eddyriley2055 I read that book! Aesop's Fables is a close second.
@dirckthedork-knight1201
@dirckthedork-knight1201 2 года назад
There's just something about these extremely old documentaries They feel so ingaging
@PeriscopeFilm
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@MisteriosGloriosos922
@MisteriosGloriosos922 2 года назад
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@PeriscopeFilm
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@hazed1009
@hazed1009 Год назад
All I can say is those early pioneers had very large brass ones!!! 😂 amazing history What's also amazing to me is how helicopters ever became a weapon of warfare. You'd think they are too delicate , too open to the slightest damage to one of millions of interlinked and.vital components. But look at them! Just an amazing invention
@Siriussky22
@Siriussky22 Год назад
The helicopter is the first aircraft to fly on another planet
@plunkervillerr1529
@plunkervillerr1529 Год назад
Definitely worth watching, even those it was made in 1952.
@scyz2807
@scyz2807 Год назад
At around the 6 minute mark there is a full scale version of what today is called a quadcopter. Of course modern quadcopters are typically much smaller, remotely piloted and are battery powered. They are also amazingly advanced compared to the quadcopter shown here at about 6:00 . As is typical, there are companies who are currently developing quadcopters and other multi-rotors toward becoming flying taxis and/or for personal transportation use.
@jasonmorris858
@jasonmorris858 Год назад
Would've been good for more chronological information as to development into mainstream uses
@rthelionheart
@rthelionheart Год назад
Imagine how goofy today's technology will undoubtedly look a century down the line.
@jamesbugbee6812
@jamesbugbee6812 2 года назад
I sense Shell has a prejudice against Bell, maybe something regarding Bell's rotorhead?
@jamesbugbee6812
@jamesbugbee6812 2 года назад
What did Bell do 2 piss off Shell? And I'll bet that guy pulling the Hornet of his garage never got 2 fly it twice, as the neighbors would have killed him re the jet-tip noise.
@jerrypaulwhite
@jerrypaulwhite Год назад
10/10 🍿 This is why I like RU-vid.
@williammorris3303
@williammorris3303 2 года назад
I cant help but wonder how many people got themselves diced by whirling blades
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Год назад
A lot. There was one quite recently and it’s going to court. I saw it in the news.
@ramishrambarran3998
@ramishrambarran3998 2 года назад
Thank you. Trinidad & Tobago.
@patrickgragg5602
@patrickgragg5602 2 года назад
SOME OF THESE MACHINES WERE SO SILLY, HOW ANYONE COULD THINK THEY WOULD FLY IS SO BEYOND ME!
@edwinclements8112
@edwinclements8112 Год назад
At that point they didn't really know, they were learning and trying to find something that would work.
@wadepatton2433
@wadepatton2433 Год назад
You don't know until you find out. But that one pogo-stick ride seemed to go on forever!
@mxp14242
@mxp14242 Год назад
A man who never makes mistakes… never makes anything at all, and the first step towards doing something well is to do it poorly. We owe what we have today to people so stupid that they believed powered flight to be possible. You know what looks silly? Standing here now with the benefit of having gained almost 120 years of experience in aerospace engineering, and saying “Oh come on, of course that ain’t gonna work! What were they thinking? LOL!”
@arvbergstedt3303
@arvbergstedt3303 Год назад
Two kinds of attitudes. I can or I can’t.
@davidb2206
@davidb2206 Год назад
YOU try pioneering an entire new field. Please do.
@jarikinnunen1718
@jarikinnunen1718 Год назад
The first helicopter to cross the English Channel was a German one, with the spoils of war just received after the war.
@mitchdakelman4470
@mitchdakelman4470 3 года назад
a fine film!
@paulacornelison243
@paulacornelison243 Год назад
This film should be updated from this point with the continuing upgrades to the Helicopter. I was reading Alastair Macclenny book Where Eagles Dare when I came across a scene with a Helicopter in it. As the story takes place during WWII, I couldn't believe the entry. So I went to an encyclopedia and there it was. The book was sort of factual. The book had a working Helicopter in it but not the style I was Imagining.
@stevew6138
@stevew6138 Год назад
The Germans were using twin rotor helicopters in Russia as early as 1943 as transport and recovery craft. Some U-Boats briefly used a gyro copter on a tether to compensate for their low position in the water in searching for shipping. However, in the event of a "crash" dive the gyro and pilot was cut loose with the hope of surfacing later to recover the pilot. Fat chance......
@paulacornelison243
@paulacornelison243 Год назад
@@stevew6138 Thank you for the information. Much appreciated!
@johnarkell4493
@johnarkell4493 Год назад
My father Basil Arkell flew Cierva C30 Autogiros with the RAF on radar calibration duties during WW2 and later in 1944 worked with Igor Sikorsky on the early helicopters in the USA and returned with some Hoverfly's and was the first commanding officer of the first RAF helicopter pilot training school in 1945. He later held the world airspeed record in a Fairey Gyrodyne of 200kph of which there was film in this film. I still have the world record certificate. His archive of photographs is now in the library of the Royal Aeronautical Society at Farnborough.
@rickbear7249
@rickbear7249 2 года назад
It's a commonly held misconception that helicopters are "blown" into the air on a column of air, blown downwards, by the rotars. Whereas, it's more accurate to say that the helicopter is "sucked" into the air by the lowering of air-pressure over each of its rotating wings. Just like on a fixed-wing aircraft, "lift" is mostly about having lower air-pressure above the wing. Similarly, an aircraft's or ship's propeller "sucks" (or "pulls") the craft forwards.
@rowerwet
@rowerwet 2 года назад
There is no such thing as suction, it is all pressure, I work for a helicopter operator, I doubt you could stand up underneath the rotorwash, which is the massive amount of air being forced down by the rotor
@rickbear7249
@rickbear7249 2 года назад
@@rowerwet Technically, you're correct, but I was writing so as to convey the "sense" of the concept, rather than writing a scientific paper for those who are already familiar with how helicopters work. Would you prefer I gave all of the mathematical equations of the physics? 😜 Do try not to be so pedantic. And, by the way, as an aeronautical scientist (at the beginning of my career) I've often stood underneath a Westland Wessex, hooking on a load. Yes, there is a rotar downwash, but the main Principle of Flight of the rotary wing is that it's sucked up into the air (as you say, by differential air pressure) rather than rising on a cushion of air. I suspect I have a lot more knowledge and experience in the design and maintenance of aircraft than yourself -- having been involved since the mid-1970s -- so, kindly, don't be impertinent
@rowerwet
@rowerwet 2 года назад
@@rickbear7249 it's still not suction, it's the difference in pressure underneath pushing upwards, especially when you rotate the wing relative to the direction of airflow, deflecting air downwards off the bottom of the wing and fuselage. Yes faster moving means Lower pressure, but props and rotors work because they push,
@LouLope
@LouLope Год назад
Those who try and fail learn what doesn't work, and eventually what does work. Those who never even try... fail all the time.
@Flightstar
@Flightstar 2 года назад
Its obscene to think i was born less than 25 years after the first promising model of the helicopter.
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
SO obscene!
@davidrivero7943
@davidrivero7943 2 года назад
Bummed, no sight of a Hughes 260 / 300 but, still very imformative
@alpacamybag9103
@alpacamybag9103 Год назад
I tried so hard to concentrate but it just went over my head.
@michaeldemarco9950
@michaeldemarco9950 Год назад
At 5:50 it’s like a giant drone. No reason that shouldn’t have worked. 🙂 !
@mikedrown2721
@mikedrown2721 2 года назад
I love the Bell 47 and the Chinook
@allgood6760
@allgood6760 Год назад
Such a useful machine!.. 👍
@fairfaxcat1312
@fairfaxcat1312 Год назад
By photographing the blades in slow motion they can be seen to rise and fall with the influence of the airflow and centrifugal forces (10:21).
@jonhohensee3258
@jonhohensee3258 Год назад
????
@andyharman3022
@andyharman3022 2 года назад
Helicopters don't fly. They just beat the air into submission.
@grabir01
@grabir01 Год назад
Amazing
@ElHombreGato
@ElHombreGato Год назад
I really liked that hand wipe transition. Why don't people use that more? Lol
@d.jensen5153
@d.jensen5153 Год назад
I wonder they would have thought about an autonomous solar-powered helicopter flying on Mars.
@TylerDWard
@TylerDWard 2 года назад
5:38 the first quad copter drone idea
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 2 года назад
@16:23 "...spraying crops and cattle..." The best!💪😂😂🤣
@Chris_at_Home
@Chris_at_Home 2 года назад
Back then they were probably spraying DDT.
@simeonbain7742
@simeonbain7742 Год назад
I like that they got the idea from birds
@leroyjones6958
@leroyjones6958 2 года назад
I watched the TV show "Whirlybirds" when I was a kid growing up in the early 1960s. Chuck and PT flew an early Bell helicopter that had the round bubble front. The TV show "MASH" also featured helicopters of a similar design. It seems to me that those earlier helicopters had controls that involved much larger inputs than the type of inputs used now. Any comments about that?
@FrankBenlin
@FrankBenlin Год назад
Yea, Whirlybirds. I think that was the Bell 47. Also featured on High Patrol with Broderick Crawford. Whirlybirds and Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges played together here in Dallas. Both good shows.
@RalphDratman
@RalphDratman Год назад
You say the invention of the gasoline engine made heavier-than-air flight possible. That is true, but I would say the availability of a new, lightweight, high energy density fuel called gasoline made it possible for a clever inventor to use the new fuel to power an engine, thus making both aviation and the automobile practical.
@scratchdog2216
@scratchdog2216 3 года назад
lol 5:50 Yeah, I'd be running too.
@embededfabrication4482
@embededfabrication4482 Год назад
The swash plate is what made it possible
@mattjohnson9743
@mattjohnson9743 3 года назад
No, the date was September 14, 1939. (Encyclopædia Britannica)
@firefly3981
@firefly3981 2 года назад
At 15:00 the pilot is flying in his business suit.
@jacksutherland846
@jacksutherland846 Год назад
That's one hell of a copter!
@Ironwench68
@Ironwench68 Год назад
I get a kick out of the crank on the side of the Hiller Hornet that makes it look like a wind up toy.
@jaminova_1969
@jaminova_1969 2 года назад
Not the DDT! 16:30
@ceejay960
@ceejay960 Год назад
I thought the narrator was Dave Garroway until I saw the end credits. Sounds kind of like him.
@Paul-ou1rx
@Paul-ou1rx Год назад
Back in the mid-1800s, we had electric cars. Imagine if we would have stuck with that where we would be today. Now if we also focused on rotary flight wings, we would have had our flying cars by now.
@jeffhyche9839
@jeffhyche9839 2 года назад
The helicopter "20,000 parts flying in lose formation."
@NLynchOEcake
@NLynchOEcake 2 года назад
If the wings are travelling faster than the fuselage it's probably a helicopter, and therefore unsafe
@Chris_at_Home
@Chris_at_Home 2 года назад
I remember the first time in a helicopter. It was a 212 and watching everything shake left an unsettling feeling in my stomach. I got used to it as my job took me to mountain tops and drill platforms.
@Pork-Chopper
@Pork-Chopper Год назад
I was waiting for the cartoons afterwards..
@yaseenmunno8580
@yaseenmunno8580 Год назад
Good
@allgood6760
@allgood6760 Год назад
We think Richard Pearse flew before the Wright Brothers and he also experimented with helicopter flight.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿✈️
@mikearmstrong8483
@mikearmstrong8483 Год назад
I've heard anecdotal tales about that, but nobody has accepted my challenge to reference any evidence of it.
@allgood6760
@allgood6760 Год назад
@@mikearmstrong8483 He had eye witness accounts they are here on RU-vid 👍🇳🇿✈️ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zfsg4fQN2e0.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qqBTZ4qM2Wc.html
@archangel0564
@archangel0564 Год назад
5:24 - The future of the Osprey is born.
@jamesfrost7465
@jamesfrost7465 3 года назад
I think Sikorsky flew his helicopter, @12:00 in America on December 7th 1941. Yes, that December 7th.
@jimdebarr5616
@jimdebarr5616 2 месяца назад
I had over 300 hours as crew or passenger in hueys. I miss flying.
@darrellevans4334
@darrellevans4334 2 года назад
Do you think you could enhance the video so we can see?
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@mauricioaraujo9862
@mauricioaraujo9862 Год назад
Valeu!
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@mohairsam9705
@mohairsam9705 Год назад
The Rotor Plane was invented 1933..?? may have been earlier .. An was displayed at shows across the Midwest ... It was the Brain Child of a WW1 pilot ... Just lost his name, it'll come back .. It came to him when he was lieing on the ground injured, he noticed a wagon on its be side in proximity ... How the wheel would rotate, when the wind blew ... He realized that wagon wheel could climb on the wind, shaped advantageously of course ... When he left the Military he set to an built one, it was a success ... He wasn't going down this road, it was just a means to a End ... From that invention he progressed to a Round Winged Airplane, or Flying Saucer ... Being a military person, a current Military Gentleman, observed his craft operating, an informed the W.H. Roosevelt, He immediately commandeered this blokes invention put him on a $10k a yr salary, Set him up at Wright Patterson, An 1936 was the start of the highest security in the U.S. ... It was Project Jefferson, the Development of the Round Winged Airplane ... Late in the WW2 a Radar Observer on a Beaufighter night Patrol, nicknamed them Foo Fighters...after a 40s, U.S. Comic book Character, Smokey Stover, Fire Fighters....
@Howoldareweanywayyipes
@Howoldareweanywayyipes Год назад
You humans sure do the funniest things.
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Год назад
Funny to think how we’ve only had helicopters for such a short time, yet they were invented hundreds of years ago.
@claudelannois8821
@claudelannois8821 Год назад
DES CENTAINES D'ANNÉES ? 🤔
@alexcarter8807
@alexcarter8807 Год назад
It came down to having engines, and not just any old engines but with a suitable power to weight ratio.
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