Word: copters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harman and another pilot were flying over the plant area when, at the low level of 200 feet, the engine stopped dead. Obedient to the untested theory they had been taught, and against all their natural instincts, the two tilted the copter downward and dived it at full speed straight for the ground. It worked: 20 feet from the ground the rotor blades, spun by the dive, acquired enough lift to break the fall. The craft smashed up, but Harman and his friend walked away, "just as the fire engines and ambulances came roaring...
...Giant Copter. At Philadelphia's International Airport, the Air Force took the wraps off the world's largest helicopter, the YH-16 Transporter, built by the Piasecki Helicopter Corp. of Morton, Pa. Weighing more than 15 tons, the 134-ft. copter, powered by 1,650-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines fore & aft, can carry 40 troops, 32 litter patients, or three jeeps, has a top speed of more than 146 m.p.h. and a fuselage, almost 78 ft. long, about as big as that of a Convair...
Only a few hours after the Air Force offered to donate the helicopter which will transport Magda Gabor, ace Hungarian beauty, to Cambridge Saturday afternoon, City Manager John Curry yesterday refused blood drive officials permission to land the copter in the Cambridge Common...
Last week in new "triphibious" landing exercises at Camp Lejeune, helicopters shuttled to and from an aircraft carrier in formations of six, and brought in 2,000 troops. The 'copter groups flopped in behind theoretical enemy lines, disgorged their cargoes and were gone in less than 20 seconds. Many a Marine visualizes the day when a whole invading force might be shuttled ashore from scattered carriers, taking an enemy by surprise and eliminating the great clutter of small craft which is so vulnerable to atomic blast...
...bushed to fight off possible counterattacks. Six big Sikorsky HR51 helicopters, hugging the valleys to avoid enemy fire, reached the peak and, one after another, hovered 8 ft. above its top. The first marines scrambled down knotted ropes and quickly cleared landing spaces 25 ft. square. Fifteen more 'copters then disgorged the rest of the company. In all, about 220 men and eight tons of gear were moved. Gloated Major W. P. Mitchell, executive officer of the 'copter squadron: "I think this is just the beginning of this type of warfare...