Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobile, and to lower itself vertically into clearings hardly bigger than the circle described by its rotor blades?began proving itself a priceless beast of aerial burden in the early days of the Korean war. In the last 36 months it has altered the whole world's concepts of transport, and has made itself a unique, irreplaceable and increasingly commonplace part of U.S. life...
Rotor-lifted aircraft, able to take off and land from rooftops, parks or squares in the heart of the biggest cities, are already eliminating that most exasperating aspect of fixed-wing air transport, the long surface trip to outlying airports. The Belgian airline, Sabena, is operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment...
...highest award at a Moscow aircraft exhibition in 1912. A huge manufacturing combine, the Society of Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factories, financed him, and with consummate confidence he set out to build the biggest flying machine the world had ever seen. It was "the Grand," the first four-engine transport plane in history?a magnificent affair with a glassed-in cabin, a dining table and an outside observation platform from which Sikorsky liked to admire the clouds as his creation lumbered through the air at 60 miles an hour...
...ended up in a small furnished room in Manhattan, scratching for a living by giving lectures on mathematics to other emigres. By 1923, however, he was back in business; aided by a handful of long-suffering fellow Russians, he built a clean-lined two-engine transport plane in a Long Island farm yard. Sikorsky was too polite to order his workmen out when they scrambled in for the test hop, and the overloaded plane crashed...
...nevertheless proved himself an impressively facile designer, and eventually United Aircraft & Transport Corp. assimilated his Sikorsky Aviation Corp. By 1937 he had made his mark all over again. The Sikorsky amphibian was a famous plane, and Sikorsky's four-engine Clippers were blazing Pan American's transoceanic routes on both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Sikorsky did not rest on his laurels. He rose at a meeting of United's operating committee, bowed and calmly announced that the time had come to perfect the helicopter...