Arthur M. Young
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Arthur Middleton Young was an American inventor, helicopter pioneer, philosopher, astrologer, and author. Young was the designer of Bell Helicopter's first helicopter, the Model 30, and inventor of th
Young controlling a model helicopter he built in 1941, photograph by Joseph Janney Steinmetz
Helicopter
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A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, ba
VH-SUF, a McDermott Aviation Bell 214 taking off after refuelling.
Cabin view looking out from a helicopter in flight
Bell 412CF looking forward from the tail, showing its twin turbine engine exhausts
1956 Hiller YROE-1 one-man "Rotorcycle" being tested at NASA Ames Research Center