1920s Early Helicopters

0:00 VS a 'helicopter' with a corkscrew blade takes off at about four feet above the ground 0:20 another aircraft falls over 0:33 an heavy, unusual 'flying' machine that bounces 0:56 a French airplane with twin horizontal blades 1:17 an early unstable blimp

VS a 'helicopter' with a corkscrew blade takes off at about four feet above the ground

In the early twenties aeronauts strode too  perfect a strange windmill on wheels called  

the helicopter this French model flew for only  a few precarious moments and never got as high  

as an elephant's eye in its achievement was a new  world record and an important advance in aviation  

I'll for the war she's running wild a pilot  could easily lose his head which he ran in  

another aircraft falls over

the wrong direction early helicopters were  dangerous careful men watch out for tricks  

in Detroit the first umbrella helicopter makes  its bow as light as lead and cast iron could  

an heavy, unusual 'flying' machine that bounces

make her this under-grown carousel was supposed to  jump into the air try this on your next hangover

back in France there appeared a new kind  of copter driven by a pair of oversized  

a French airplane with twin horizontal blades

pinwheels this aerial bucking bronco had  the stability of an intoxicated chorus  

girl and required a ground crew  skilled in the hundred-yard dash

an early unstable blimp

the pilot were added for control some  control just let her loose and where she  

goes nobody knows they called her the  flying sausage but to that perspiring  

ground crew she was just a lot of baloney  this is how they got airsick back in 1921