Early helicopter projects


Lipkowski Lipkowski's Helicopter

1905

Jozef Lipkowski, a Polish engineer and inventor working in France and Russia, designed a huge ...

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Igor Sikorsky's first attempt at building a helicopter. The airframe was a wire-braced woodencage, enclosing ...

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Sikorsky S-1

1909

Sikorsky S-1

Sikorsky S-2 Sikorsky S-2

1910

Built and tested in February to May 1910, Sikorsky's second helicopter was more sophisticatedthan the ...

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Twin-rotor helicopter with tractor propeller. All rotors powered by single 50hp Argus engine. Construction started ...

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Sorokin helicopter

1909

Sorokin helicopter

Tatarinov "Aeromobile" Tatarinov "Aeromobile"

1909

In the very year that Sikorsky was working on his first helicopter, Tatarinov started to ...

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In 1907 military engineer K.A.Antonov applied for, and in 1912 obtained a patent for his ...

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Antonov "Helicoplane"

1910

Antonov "Helicoplane"

Yuriev helicopter Yuriev helicopter

1910


In 1911 B.N.Yuriev (then student) completed development of theoretical concept of the helicopter with single ...

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Yuriev helicopter

1912

Yuriev helicopter