Helicopter

Period

1936

Map

Inventions map

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, backward and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of short take-off and landing (STOL) or short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft cannot perform without a runway.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. 1830–1831Belgian Revolution
2. 1916Battle of Verdun
3. 1918–1919German revolution of 1918–1919
4. 1936HelicopterThis page
5. 1936Anti-Comintern Pact
6. 1940Battle of France
7. 1941–1945Eastern Front of World War II

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