History of the Helicopter (1952) 

It's amazing how easy to follow these old presentations are.

That jumping car was amazing you could tell that dude was like "it's going to work flawlessly and I'll be famous"

This was a fantastic look back in time. Thanks for sharing!

This is how you make an interesting, detailed history video about something without telling the viewer to hit the sub button every 5 minutes.

71 years later, but still very interesting to watch. Great documentary

This was really fascinating.

man, humans are pretty cool

Pretty cool to see this old footage and see how things have changed since then

These will really get big in the Vietnam war! Director: THE VIETNAM WHAT?!?!!?

If they can only see us now, even kids can fly toy helicopters and drones. Thank you for your inventions.

I love how a gas company thought that helicopters would be a household thing that everyone could drive in the future

this was a nice doc, its ancientness lends it a certain charm

All early prototypes weird and wonderful that lead to a modern day helicopter, thumbs up 👍

For such an old film it is surprisingly easy to listen too and understand

5:38 amazing to see a quad copter in 1922, when we think they are so modern. Also, bi-copters 11:34 are often shown in sci-fi (e.g. Avatar) yet this Focke-Achgelis is shown in 1937. There's also a tricopter. Drone enthusiasts will love this.

I love my species

I worked on Sikorsky’s & Bell helos. I was an avionics tech. S-92’s S76’s S300’s. Bell 426’s, 425’s, & the refitted Huey’s with quad blades & more powerful jet engines. It was very cool!

2 things I don't hear talked about enough is "gyroscopic precession" and "autorotating." Gyroscopic precession meaning: with a fast spinning disc, to get the effect you want you have to control the blades 90 degrees BEFORE you want the effect to take place such as if you want to move forward you push the stick forward, but due to physics the mechanics of the chopper actually tilt the swashplate left (or right) because it takes X amount of time for the effect to take place. Autorotation: means a helicopter is it's own parachute. I used to think if you lose power you will plummet to the ground, game over. But in reality if you are falling from the sky a pilot will pitch the blades down and the wind pushing through the blades will make them spin faster, increasing the rotor RPM with 0 power. Then the pilot has one chance (about 100 feet above the ground) before they pitch the blades back up and the heli will float for just a few seconds to make a rough, but safe landing. Think of jumping out of a plane holding a cheap box fan over your head. As you fall the blades will gain alot of speed until they explode. While box fan blades are fixed blades, imagine if you had collective pitch control. At the last second you pitch up and you've created drag, just like a parachute. These are the 2 things that really blew my mind when learning how to fly RC helicopters

Some American while the development: So, how about adding a gun in it?

Plane lore: Throw big wooden birb off a cliff Helicopter lore:

thanks for this video, since i was a child i was really interested in helicopters and how they fly, very interesting to see their history

4:16 was best helicopter

I love all the different prototypes!, it's like something out of a kids imagination. I can only imagine the talks between the people that made these prototypes, definitely a big passion.

imagin being the first person actually flying somewhere in this

if only new documentaries were this good, i didn't skip a second !

Brilliant, this is the way to present an historic interesting video - no annoying ads and no distracting digital clock!!! Up ‘Periscope!’

What a great video

17:03 I just love those intermeshing rotor Kaman/Flettner designs. Also surprised to see the coaxial arrangement used on some of those very early experiments.

Now this documentary itself is a history.

This video injects me with hope

incredible how well researched this was for 1952 with footage also. very intresting

My daily dose of quality RU-vid videos. So refreshing..

Always best to watch these kind of videos at mod afternoons and at the midnights

Magical narration and voice

Each and every second of this video was informative...... 👍👍👍🙌

Helicopter's contribution to humankind is huge!

finaly i know what the back prop is for.. thank you 1952 person in the documentary :D

That Shell advertisement in the beguining sure did age well

Really impressive

Really cool video.

It's interesting to note it was probably not a matter of design but of engine speed that took so long to reach flight.

Juan de la Cierva hinges were key for the helicopter development. Kudos to the documentary for mentioning it.

Wonderful documentary

great footage! kudos to you

That last helicopter with the flaming rotor tips was the best!!

Thanks for this still used today ✈️

Hi guys amazing work on making the film look brilliant

Hola, se puede decir que el helicóptero fue y será una aeronave que le dio otro sentido a la humanidad. Excelente vídeo y muy explicativo, te felicito. 👍👍👍👍🇨🇱

Thank You, Alberto Santos Dumont, You are the relly gennius !!

9:15 That looks so freaking cool. If only I could be there and feel the awe and wonder of the crowd

Kids born at the time of this release will have witness the flight of a helicopter on Mars.

What an era!! And, were it not for the wars, what a time to be alive! So much hope for the marvels of the near future!

Imagine being one of these people, It would be mind blowing for that that time.

Great film! I didn’t know any of this!

Repeat repeat repeat never gets old ❤️

Brilliant !

Looks like something I'd build in bad piggies lol

Those guys really had high expectations about their aircraft

though its old and some are failed but it's kinda exquisite to see their mechanical design in person it would really be fascinating

Great! Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for sharing ,many wouldn't have thought at that one could also fly using rotating wheels mounted at the top .

3:55 me trying to get my grades up like:

It's really awesome and amazing to think that if somebody ended up actually cracking the nut of gravity and created efficient, workable antigravity devices, this and so many other transportation technologies would become moot (as a point :-) As that's not necessarily likely to happen anytime soon, this continues to be very relevant!

Imagine the people that were down seeing something up in the sky

Legend has it this guy at 3:56 is still bouncing around trying to get this thing to hover and fly with the birds.

Dude the slow mo footage is astonishing for its age.

Fascinating

they failed and try and again failed and try and again failed and try and again failed and again try .... because of these genious people today we have lots of aircraft's

It's a great information man....

Damn, why is it so entertaining and understandable at the same time?

Muito bacana esse vídeo !

6:02 that was honestly it, what theyre doing in this clip is miles ahead of their time

I've been watching old episodes of "The Whirlybirds" TV series here on RU-vid (which I loved as a kid). I put this on my "watch later" list just in case I'm called upon to take over a 'bird in an emergency!

Amazing

Very useful

Awesome

1920s quadcopter guy was 100 years ahead of his time so unreal!

I love the Sikorsky S-51. They had them on the USS New Jersey during the Korean war. The same ship my grandfather served on during WWII.

Thank you for mentioning Sir George Caley

12:56 this could be the first cargo Helicopter. 💪🏻

How say you Mr. Johnson? Should we add guns to it?

pretty cool

great docu

It was Cool seeing that small helicopter on the movie Road Warrior.

autogiros are my new fav flying machine

Really pretty cool ❤

The 19 century slow motion camera is better than today flagship phone slow motion

It is fantastic to see the early helicopter looked like a modern drone

Those guys trying to hold those machines down while the propellers are spinning crazy. What a life

2021 : Helicopter Helicopter

Those first guys to get off the ground rotary wing style: "What is this strange song in my head?" "How does it go?" "Something about 'I ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no'...something "

Fantastic helikopotvora!

I think I remember a tv show from the 50's in USA called Whirlybirds. It was great Very exciting.

Fantastic comp, some clips I've never seen. But I think some where confused in their timely ranking?

The whole sequence of early prototype videos starting at 5:00 is quite scary. Just look at those dudes holding these very unstable machines with their heads only a meter away from rotating blades ! They would have to be very stupid or passionate (or both :p ) to even think about getting under those flying butcher knives :D

12:01 there is one of these Westland Dragonfly helicopters belonging to the Royal Navy in Lough Foyle, Londonderry, Northern Ireland that came down on 25 November 1958, nobody was killed in it. You can walk out to it but its a fair distance and the helicopter is lying on its right hand side.

I'd love to see the actual whole credits screen.

Seeing a quadcopter from 100 year ago is cool

This gives me an idea

i know now why my dad love to learning :o its so fun to learn