Helicopters built between 1907 and 1935


Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.1 Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.1

1907

When it rose vertically from the ground with its pilot in the late summer of ...

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The first true flight, free of any tie-down ropes, apparently was made by Paul Cornu ...

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Cornu helicopter

1907

Cornu helicopter

Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.2 Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.2

1908

Helicopter-aeroplane, combining the principles of thelifting screw with the aeroplane pure and simple. Thescrews are ...

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In France in 1908, Bertin, a motorcyclist, and Boulline, amechanic from Puteaux, built a machine ...

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Bertin compound helicopter

1908

Bertin compound helicopter

Ellehammer helicopter Ellehammer helicopter

1912

Jacob Christian Ellehammer must surely rank among the most versatile of aviation's early pioneers. First ...

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In 1913 Henry Villard, who had previously performed some direct lift experiments in France, carried ...

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Villard helicopter

1912

Villard helicopter

Decazes "Helicoplane" Decazes "Helicoplane"

1912

Around 1902, Viscount Decazes and G. Besancon hadconducted tests of a 6m diameter vertically mountedpropeller ...

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Papin and Rouilly's "Gyropter" possessed only a single hollow blade with a plan area of ...

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Papin & Rouilly "Gyroptere"

1915

Papin & Rouilly "Gyroptere"

Douheret helicopter Douheret helicopter

1919

The Douheret helicopter of 1919 was the first helicopter with the engine placed between its ...

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At the Royal Air Establishment in Farnborough, England, Louis Brennan conducted experimentson the propeller-driven rotor ...

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Brennan helicopter

1924

Brennan helicopter

Oemichen No.1 Oemichen No.1

1920

Meanwhile, work had resumed in France where in 1920 Etienne Oehmichen flew a helicopter somewhat ...

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Etienne Oemichen, a young engineer with the Peugeot motor car company, began to experiment with ...

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Oemichen No.2

1922

Oemichen No.2

Oemichen No.3 Oemichen No.3

1924

Oemichen's third helicopter which appeared in 1924 had a single large rotor with two blades ...

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In stiff competition with Oemichen, Spanish engineer MarquisRaul Pateras Pescara began building rotary wing machines,initially ...

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Pescara Stoppable Rotor-Wing

1922 - project

Pescara Stoppable Rotor-Wing

Pescara No.3 Pescara No.3

1923

It is unfortunate that more complete records have evidently not survived of the later Pescara ...

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Dutchman A. G. von Baumhauer built a helicopter in 1925 that flew in a very ...

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Baumhauer helicopter

1925

Baumhauer helicopter

Chauviere "Gyroptere" Chauviere "Gyroptere"

1927

Lucien Chauviere, a well-known propeller designer, built amachine dubbed the Gyroptere in 1927,based on the ...

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As early as 1908 von Asboth had set about building a biplane, and during World ...

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Asboth helicopter

1928

Asboth helicopter

Florine helicopter Florine helicopter

1930

The first twin tandem rotor machine to fly was built by Nicolas Florine in Belgium ...

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In Italy, Corridion D'Ascanio built a machine with two 13m counter-rotating coaxialrotors, each with a ...

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Ascanio helicopter

1930

Ascanio helicopter