The Volocopter VC1 would conduct the first manned flight of an electric multicopter according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The VC1 was flown by Volocopter co-founder, primary designer, inventor and builder, Thomas Senkel on 21 October 2011.
Multicopter builder
On Dec. 30, Volocopter announced that it was filing for bankruptcy in German courts in order to receive the financial protection necessary to stay operational and still launch in 2025 as planned.
Early in 1914 Villard built a second model with a frame made of steel tubes. An Anzani 100hp radial engine was mounted on top of a central tripod structure to which the rotor blades were attached. Movements of the pilot’s seat enabled the aircraft’s centre of gravity to be shifted. There was also a small tail rotor 60 centimetres in diameter.
Villard ‘s tests were brought to a swift end by the German invasion of Belgium.
In 1913 Henry Villard, who had previously performed some direct lift experiments in France, carried out various trials in a balloon hangar near Brussels with an aircraft which he had designed. It was a lifting device 2.7 metres in diameter, driven directly by a 100hp type 1912 Anzani engine. The device weighed 400 kilos, and during its tests the rear wheels left the ground.
Félix Henri Villard submitted his first patent application on April 22, 1901, and by July he built his helicopter in metal.
A round fan with a diameter of 7.22 meters was driven by an internal combustion engine of 12 hp.
The craft weighed 320 kg and could stand on its leg without falling, but only.
Félix Henri Villard was born on August 14, 1869 in France, in the village of Torteron. He trained to be an engineer, and on April 22, 1901, he submitted his first patent application, and by July he built his helicopter in metal.
On September 26, 1916, Felix Henri Villard died from wounds received on the fronts of the First World War at his mother’s house in Cahors.
The 1930 Plane-a-copter built by Jerry Vidal in the USA was described a “windmill” with counter-rotating wings. A single-place, open cockpit helicopter, it crashed, was modified and rebuilt, then shelved.
Engine: 98hp Curtiss OX-5
Australia.
Initially producer of 2-stroke engines and lawnmowers; Aviation Division established September 1959 to manufacture Airtourer, two-seat aerobatic lightplane designed by Henry Millicer, chief aerodynamicist of Government Aircraft Factories. Prototype built by Air Tourer group of Australian Ultra Light Aircraft Association and first flew March 1959; production deliveries began mid-1962. Also that year produced prototype Victa 67A two-seat autogyro. Aviation Division closed 2 January 1967; manufacturing rights in Air tourer and later Aircruiser obtained by Aero Engine Services Ltd of New Zealand.
In 1958 New York Airways introduced the Vertol 44 single engine, tandem rotor helicopter into scheduled service, in and around the New York metropolitan area.
44
Engine: 1275hp Wright R-1820
Rotor diameter: 44’0″
Length: 52’6″
Useful load: 5420 lb
Max speed: 127 mph
Cruise speed: 101 mph
Range: 360 mi
44A
19p cargo version
44B
15p passenger version.
44C
Deluxe version of 44B
USA
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Vertol Aircraft Corporation, the Canadian Company was operated as completely independent. It was formed in February 1954, on former RCAF airfield at Arnprior, Ontario, initially to service and overhaul helicopters. Vertol Aircraft Corp was the title from March 1956 of former Piasecki Helicopter Corporation of Morton, Pennsylvania.
Entered production with the Model 42A, a modified version of the Piasecki (Vertol) H-21 helicopter. A tandem-rotor general-purpose helicopter, it accommodated a crew of 1/2 and 18 passengers.
Helicopter products included Model 107 (civil), and CH-46 Sea Knight for naval supply. The latter was built by Kawasaki in Japan in 1978 as KV-107/II. Nearly 600 Vertol H-21 Work Horse military transport helicopters, Model 43 (military export version) and Model 44 (commercial transport based on H-21) were completed. Tilt-wing Model 76 VTOL research aircraft evaluated by USAF as VZ-2. Model 114/CH-47 Chinook heavylift military helicopter begun by Vertol, but primary development and production by Boeing Vertol.
Vertol was acquired by Boeing Company and became Vertol Division of the Boeing Company on 31 March 1960, later known as Boeing Vertol Company.
Canadian Vertol Aircraft Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vertol Aircraft Corporation, was formed February 1954 at the former RCAF air base Arnprior, west of Ottawa, to repair and overhaul RCAF/RCN Vertol helicopters. Sizes and weights
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