Pilot

Helicopter Pilots

By erm6883
  • 400 BCE

    Bamboo Flying Toys

    Bamboo Flying Toys
    Chinese children begin to play with bamboo flying toys, the forerunners of today's choppers
  • 1480

    The Aerial Screw

    The Aerial Screw
    Leonardo Da Vinci draws up plans for a "aerial screw", sort of like a water screw that flies

  • Aerodynamic

    Aerodynamic
    Mikhail Lomonosov created a small rotercraft to be used to lift meteorological instrument

  • Steam Powered Model

    Steam Powered Model
    The term "helicopter" is coined by french inventor Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt when he made a small steam powered model that never lifted of the ground.

  • Rubberband Helicopters

    Rubberband Helicopters
    Alphonse P'enaud develops toy helicopters powered by rubberbands

  • Jan Bahyl

    Jan Bahyl
    Ján Bahýľ, a Slovak inventor uses a internal combustion engine that lifts his helicopter half a meter of the ground.

  • First Piloted Helicopter

    First Piloted Helicopter
    They very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu, however this design was not successful.

  • Successful Flight

    Successful Flight
    French inventor Etienne Oehmichen was more successful. he built and flew a helicopter on kilometer

  • Focke-Wulf FW 61

    Focke-Wulf FW 61
    The Focke-Wulf FW 61 regarded as the world's first functional helicopter is flown for the first time

  • Focke-Wulf FW 61

    Focke-Wulf FW 61
    The Focke-Wulf FW 61 breaks all of the helicopter world records.

  • Bell Model 47

    Bell Model 47
    Arthur Young of the Bell Aircraft company, designed the Bell Model 47 helicopter, the first helicopter to have a full bubble canopy

  • Hiller 360

    Hiller 360
    American inventor Stanley Hiller Jr. piloted the first helicopter flight across the United States, piloting a helicopter that he invented called the Hiller 360

  • Turboshaft

    Turboshaft
    The first turboshaft engine was used in a helicopter.

  • Lockheed Model 186

    Lockheed Model 186
    On November 26th 1962, African American inventor Paul E. Williams patented a helicopter named the Lockheed Model 186

  • Sikorsky

    Sikorsky
    Igor Sikosky, the man who invented on of the first helicopters for the U.S dies

  • UH-60 Black Hawk

    UH-60 Black Hawk
    The UH-60 Black Hawk was fielded by the Army

  • SH-60B Seahawk

    SH-60B Seahawk
    The Navy received the SH-60B Seahawk

  • HH-60J

    HH-60J
    The HH-60J Jayhawk makes its first flight

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    34,751 people are rescued by helicopter after hurricane Katrina.

  • Mil V-12

    Mil V-12
    The world's first helicopter(18 rooms with 5 star facilities)- a customized and refitted Soviet-built Mil V-12 helicopter