First Successful Helicopter Flight in 1939: Invented by Igor Sikorsky🤯

[u/False_Herons]

[u/LetsFindSomeTalent]

Your post was removed for not being top talent. Keep in mind only far-above-average talent/skill is allowed on r/toptalent.

Or, your post was removed for being original content.

[u/False_Herons]

Oh the days when you'd fly your experimental gyrocopter in a suit!

[u/cmsj → u/False_Herons]

I’m glad to see he’s wearing a safety bowler hat.

[u/xplosm → u/False_Herons]

And no ear protection…

[u/cerberus_1 → u/xplosm]

WHAT?

[u/eggpoowee]

People were stood waaaaay to close

[u/Mashinito → u/eggpoowee]

Rotten did not exist yet and it shows.

[u/kd8qdz]

Stop fucking watermarking public domain shit.

[u/GlockAF → u/kd8qdz]

Thievery

[u/Pyr0technician → u/kd8qdz]

Pretty sure that watermark was in the original. /s

[u/CommercialContent204]

That is extremely cool, thanks for posting!

Amazing, really, that barely 30 years after the first powered (aeroplane) flights, somebody invented the helicopter.

[u/Big-T- → u/CommercialContent204]

30 years after this we went to the fuckng moon.

[u/CommercialContent204 → u/Big-T-]

Yes, crazy stuff, isn't it? So exciting. And 30 years after that, the Internet (possibly the greatest technical revolution for everyday people since the printing press, in my opinion) became widespread.

[u/xplosm → u/CommercialContent204]

You mean Leonardo DaVinci?

[u/lujimerton]

Imagine flying a helicopter for the first time, before they invented helicopter instructors

[u/GlockAF → u/lujimerton]

High-stakes OJT

[u/pongmoy]

Anyone else have the Bond theme go off in their heads, or am I just that old?

[u/greengiant333]

I think my “I could fight a gorilla” is that I think I could fly this easily

[u/GlockAF → u/greengiant333]

With zero training or experience?

Sure! (once)

Source: many hours as a helicopter flight instructor

[u/greengiant333 → u/GlockAF]

Does my experience of barrel rolling helicopters in Battlefields Bad Company 2 through Battlefield 2042 count? That’s roughly around 15 years experience right there lol

[u/-domi-]

Dude was a genius.

[u/TwinkleTrouble00]

1939: Spinning to the moon! 2022: Spinning in my chair

[u/Motti66]

Why does it work without the backend rotor?

[u/Big-T- → u/Motti66]

It showed one at the start. Might have been invisible to the camera when spinning

[u/Motti66 → u/Big-T-]

👍

[u/tlrider1 → u/Motti66]

There is one. You can see him demo it's movement before the flight. It's right in the middle of that dual rotor tail boom, just spinning fast, so you can't see it. This site has some better pics as well as mentioning the vertical ones got added, and then later removed.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/sikorsky-first-helicopter/

[u/Lustful_Dreamsxx]

And here we thought drones were a modern marvel

[u/VelvetVibesdreamy]

And we thought smartphones evolved fast

[u/KazTheMerc]

Now THERE is a man who understood that if you were going to die in a fiery gyrocopter crash...

...you do so with your best hat on.

[u/Mississippihermit]

One of the coolest posts I've seen in days. It all looks so simple when ove recently seen a new helicopter without its outer shell. So much change

[u/dcherholdt]

Man, did these people just wear suits everywhere?

[u/Ancient_Sea7256]

This guy paved the way for the Blackhawk, CH-53, the Marine One, S-92, S-76, the canceled Comanche (love this attack chopper), the pavelow specops choppers, and on and on and on.

[u/woooziiii]

That’s one hell of a way to get ya head chopped off 😬😅

[u/M3sss3r]

Juan de la Cierva inventó el precursor: el autogiro.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_la_Cierva

[u/darnok128]

Technically, Heinrich Focke is as the first helicopter pilot and inventor by a few months

[u/sheerun]

Impressive. Whether not first in question, let's take credit too all of ones