100 Years Of Rotary Lift

Credit: AGUSTA WESTLAND
To usher in a new era, 20 sec. and 30 cm. (11.8 in.) may seem small measures, but the two together heralded the beginning of human rotary-powered flight. One hundred years ago—on Nov. 13, 1907—Frenchman Paul Cornu is generally held to have become airborne, if by the slightest of margins, and for a...

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