HISTORY OF THE HELICOPTER 1950s SHELL OIL COMPANY FILM 32122

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[@timrussell1559]

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]

Thanks for your comment as we often tend to forget the shoulders we are standing on that got us here!

[@xaguass]

Could not write a better note. Thanks

[@willymac5036]

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!

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[@johndoyle4723]

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]

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]

for anybody interested in helicopters , this historic footage is a must.thank you.

[@danielcruz8347]

Igor '' Sky Rotor '' Sikorsky 1889-1972 USA was very fortunate to have his expertise early on!!! Bless his heart.

[@Optimistic7718]

1928/9/9 Oszkár Asboth 👆🏻

[@Lousysalsero]

Unbelievable how far we've come... This film was made in 1952, the year in which I was born.

[@general5104]

Ah hah...an old man...I was born in 53 🤔😜I feel 90

[@derekstocker6661]

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]

I always love the narrator's voice in these old documentaries.

[@davidb2206]

Why can't we have that dignity again? Same with Walter Cronkite.

[@peterlittlehorse5695]

@@davidb2206 Because anything other than "Vocal Fry" is elitist. LOL.

[@flyingdutchman4794]

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]

You make it sound like they should have gotten the invention of flight in one shot. Many failures before success.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

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]

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]

3. I am addicted to numbering things.

[@DAS-Videos]

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]

You're a little sad.

[@sabre-ub3op]

They say if you worship a man in the sky that you can see down here after you leave Earth

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

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]

@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Oh please....

[@herrakaarme]

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.

[@felixcat9318]

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]

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]

My love of helicopters come from Skippy the Bush kangaroo lol

[@felixcat9318]

@@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]

@@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]

Why wouldn't triple rotors work? Kids play with quad copters now.

[@sambecker2045]

In a nut Shell, thank you! Where have all the good films gone.

[@michaelmartinez1345]

These scenes are very interesting!!! Great stock footage and very descriptive explanations of the basics of rotating wing flight....

[@thejerseyj9422]

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]

Vietnam right?

[@garykerkstra1067]

Whirlybirds was a " can't miss" for me. Full episodes are on KZbin.

[@jaminova_1969]

Korea. There was some limited use of helicopters at the end of WW2 for "Search & rescue".

[@borusa32]

Yes,I loved that show

[@mikedrown2721]

Yes, I remember this show. I was born in 1946

[@alexcarter8807]

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.

[@ArmyOne519]

Thank You for this information about the Helicopter 🚁

[@Popesontour]

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!

[@FourthWayRanch]

The rotor is an airfoil, what's not aerodynamic?

[@general5104]

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.

[@mauricioaraujo9862]

Valeu!

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[@Davett53]

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]

Most of Americas history is in a land fill. Recycle, recycle, blah blah blah.

[@Davett53]

@@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]

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]

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]

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]

@@roywilkowski2326 "whirlybirds" is my favorite.

[@chrisball3634]

Wonderful film footage....thanks, Shell..👍👍👍👍

[@truckerray7533]

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]

Look up 'Mosquito helicopter' and be pleasantly surprised.

[@truckerray7533]

@@stejer211 thankyou. i will. take care.

[@andreschapero3615]

Paramotors, the future of sport aviation. Cheap, safe.

[@truckerray7533]

@@stejer211 Yes i know of the Mosquito helicopter, thankyou.

[@eddyriley2055]

@@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.

[@RobB-vz2vo]

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]

zzzzzz...

[@douglasthompson8927]

my butt itches

[@Optimistic7718]

1928/9/18 Oszkár Asboth 👆🏻

[@FourthWayRanch]

The swash plate is what made it possible

[@rand49er]

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.

[@roywilkowski2326]

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]

That's why you want to keep the mechanics happy and on your side :)

[@stevew6138]

You really should have shown more footage of the German effort. They were flying choppers in Russia by 1943.

[@romaneberle]

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]

@@romaneberle That's a good point, well taken.

[@CJ-nt4cs]

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.

[@brianazmy3156]

My first helicopter flight was in a Blackhawk at ft.Bragg at night. I'll never forget that glittering halo.

[@jonhohensee3258]

That never happened.

[@jonhohensee3258]

@bill conway Oh Bill... switch to decaffeinated.

[@vincentchaza8111]

The Blackhawk is my favorite of all helicopters

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@vincentchaza8111 No it's not.

[@Siriussky22]

The helicopter is the first aircraft to fly on another planet

[@harveyolitsky4341]

The helicopter, Gods gift to mankind.

[@PFLEONARDI0906]

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.

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[@JohnDoe-pv2iu]

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]

Oszkár Asboth 1928/9/9👆🏻

[@raymondwelsh6028]

I still think the Sikorsky Dragon Fly is still one of the best looking helicopters around.🇦🇺

[@cowboybob7093]

I had to look it up, but yeah the Sikorsky H-5 really set a high bar.

[@jackpontiac52]

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]

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]

@@philipwalker5405 It was along time ago ! 44-45 years ago !

[@Oliverdobbins]

That does it! I’m buying a Helicopter!

[@eddyriley2055]

get a copy of bob masons "chickenhawk" about his experience flying "hueys" in vietnam. you will sell your kids to get one!

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

@@eddyriley2055 I read that book! Aesop's Fables is a close second.

[@hazed1009]

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

[@alexcarter8807]

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.

[@mohairsam9705]

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....

[@allanhughes7859]

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 ..

[@MisteriosGloriosos922]

Thanks for sharing this vid, liked &shared!!!

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[@billruss6704]

set a whirled record.

[@Critter145]

For all our technology, there are some respects in which we still basically live in the eighteenth century.

[@michaeldemarco9950]

At 5:50 it’s like a giant drone. No reason that shouldn’t have worked. 🙂 !

[@andyharman3022]

Helicopters don't fly. They just beat the air into submission.

[@johnarkell4493]

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.

[@garyp4374]

20 years before Vietnam and the Huey where they were very valuable to the Australian and American troops

[@almac2598]

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.

[@fishdude666ify]

One of mankind's greatest inventions IMO is the swashplate. It's such a weird, counterintuitive idea.

[@jeffgrave]

Interesting that the first helicopters were quad-copters!

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

@16:23 "...spraying crops and cattle..." The best!💪😂😂🤣

[@Chris_at_Home]

Back then they were probably spraying DDT.

[@allgood6760]

Such a useful machine!.. 👍

[@scyz2807]

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.

[@jerrypaulwhite]

10/10 🍿 This is why I like KZbin.

[@rickbear7249]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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,

[@rodanderson8490]

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]

Sikorsky. Westland.

[@thomaslawrence2210]

Not correct. Sikorsky made use of some of Cierva's ideas, but licensed them and paid appropriate royalties. Westland built Silorsky designs under license.

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Definitely worth watching, even those it was made in 1952.

[@adeladd7638]

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'.

[@alpacamybag9103]

I tried so hard to concentrate but it just went over my head.

[@mitchdakelman4470]

a fine film!

[@ramishrambarran3998]

Thank you. Trinidad & Tobago.

[@scratchdog2216]

lol 5:50 Yeah, I'd be running too.

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

There's just something about these extremely old documentaries They feel so ingaging

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[@fairfaxcat1312]

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]

????

[@firefly3981]

At 15:00 the pilot is flying in his business suit.

[@jamesbugbee6812]

I sense Shell has a prejudice against Bell, maybe something regarding Bell's rotorhead?

[@mikedrown2721]

I love the Bell 47 and the Chinook

[@paulacornelison243]

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]

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]

@@stevew6138 Thank you for the information. Much appreciated!

[@williammorris3303]

I cant help but wonder how many people got themselves diced by whirling blades

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

A lot. There was one quite recently and it’s going to court. I saw it in the news.

[@Flightstar]

Its obscene to think i was born less than 25 years after the first promising model of the helicopter.

[@jonhohensee3258]

SO obscene!

[@jarikinnunen1718]

The first helicopter to cross the English Channel was a German one, with the spoils of war just received after the war.

[@ElHombreGato]

I really liked that hand wipe transition. Why don't people use that more? Lol

[@LouLope]

Those who try and fail learn what doesn't work, and eventually what does work. Those who never even try... fail all the time.

[@rthelionheart]

Imagine how goofy today's technology will undoubtedly look a century down the line.

[@jasonmorris858]

Would've been good for more chronological information as to development into mainstream uses

[@uwusmolbean]

More like the hell-yeah-copter Am I right !? 😉

[@simeonbain77]

I like that they got the idea from birds

[@RalphDratman]

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.

[@jamesbugbee6812]

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.

[@TylerDWard]

5:38 the first quad copter drone idea

[@grabir01]

Amazing

[@davidrivero7943]

Bummed, no sight of a Hughes 260 / 300 but, still very imformative

[@leroyjones6958]

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]

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.

[@ceejay960]

I thought the narrator was Dave Garroway until I saw the end credits. Sounds kind of like him.

[@bigdambluesband6295]

I'm a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan so you will never get me on one of these flying coffins.

[@archangel0564]

5:24 - The future of the Osprey is born.

[@allgood6760]

We think Richard Pearse flew before the Wright Brothers and he also experimented with helicopter flight.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿✈️

[@mikearmstrong8483]

I've heard anecdotal tales about that, but nobody has accepted my challenge to reference any evidence of it.

[@allgood6760]

@@mikearmstrong8483 He had eye witness accounts they are here on KZbin 👍🇳🇿✈️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJfWmGechrNlm5I and kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6KlhY1qprJljcU

[@mei6487]

Man created aircrafts, & then he realized he can attach explosives to the aircrafts & fly them up into the sky & then drop the explosives on the poor children on the ground. Humanity is great. Isn't it?

[@jonhohensee3258]

You poor thing.

[@mei6487]

@@jonhohensee3258 , so u like the idea to drop explosives on poor children. Then believe me the only poor thing is u.

[@roywilkowski2326]

And way before that, there was a caveman across the valley from another caveman. The first caveman coveted the other caveman's cave, his woman, and his possessions. The first caveman had a much bigger club than the second caveman, so, one day, the first caveman marched across the valley and killed the second caveman and took all his stuff. Ain't humanity great? Nothing has changed. Blaming aircraft is like blaming the first caveman's larger club.

[@mei6487]

@@roywilkowski2326 , at first I thought you're being sarcasticly criticizing my point, but towards the end you complemented it. True, only our clubs are getting more technologically advanced, but we're still the same cavemen w clubs, ready to be aggressive violent dominating beasts we are deep inside. Before we call ourselves "civilized" we should understand what it means; nothing but city dwelling creatures. But that doesn't change our wild human nature, but to disguise it for us w civilized illusions & toys & games. A barbaric caveman woul club you to death, but a "civilized" man takes you to the court & uses civilized system to destroy your life much harsher & painful. Darwin was WRONG we're NOT "evolving"(whatever he meant by this word); we're just learning how to over up our beasts inside more creatively I do NOT feel "pride" for human inventions;.they're just making this sh t called life with much more suffering, and most of the inventions unnecessary. Believe me we don't need aircrafts without them our lives would've been much better & cleaners & much much much less dangerous. But since they're invented they get hold of our lives because civilization makes aircraft inseparable parts of our lives(we're stuck with these monsters, like it or not we should endure their added suffering to our naturally suffering lives). Our inventions aren't reducing our suffering but to increasing them manifold. Usually here people who are "proud" to be human & believe "humanity" is the greatest thing (even w all our per ver sions), tell me that, "So you like to go back & be a caveman; you hate civilization." And I just feel sorry for them that everything for them is either this or that; they never have the wider imagination that there can be a third or fourth or fifth options. I truly wish the cities were never invented 10,000 years ago(developed so big to the cra py mess they are today), & at the same time I see & believe the tribal living is much worse. I just wish humans had never created societies more than Two (a man & a woman in love); even our offspring are more suffering makers.

[@sidsimon5844]

We learned in flight school that helicopters don't really fly... It's that Earth rejects them.

[@jacksutherland846]

That's one hell of a copter!

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Funny to think how we’ve only had helicopters for such a short time, yet they were invented hundreds of years ago.

[@claudelannois8821]

DES CENTAINES D'ANNÉES ? 🤔

[@alexcarter8807]

It came down to having engines, and not just any old engines but with a suitable power to weight ratio.

[@landofstan246]

Then, Gasoline, an easy to handle fuel. Still is.

[@jeffhyche9839]

The helicopter "20,000 parts flying in lose formation."

[@NLynchOEcake]

If the wings are travelling faster than the fuselage it's probably a helicopter, and therefore unsafe

[@Chris_at_Home]

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.

[@d.jensen5153]

I wonder they would have thought about an autonomous solar-powered helicopter flying on Mars.

[@jaminova_1969]

Not the DDT! 16:30

[@lakhbinderjitsingh7795]

Our Entity teaching how to fly on the heaven's like our Father 🎅 type smile and laugh too right

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

You humans sure do the funniest things.

[@darrellevans4334]

Do you think you could enhance the video so we can see?

[@PeriscopeFilm]

We don't enhance or alter the films we post. For historical reasons, they are presented as they were originally seen by audiences. Consider becoming a channel member kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXWliGami8abi6c

[@landofstan246]

At 5:30, the first quad copter.

[@Pork-Chopper]

I was waiting for the cartoons afterwards..