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Old 28th Dec 2001, 22:16
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Talking The Great "Igor"

A little help my friends, during this recent enforced holiday period, I was watching one of these Docu's on thing that have happend in the last century, and flickering into view came a Crane like structure with wheels on each of three corners,and two possibly three Rotors, all seemed to be driven by rubber bands and angular hung pulleys, this was said to be the very first helicopter, designed and piloted by "Igor Sikorski", the thing is, his head was adorned with a Trilby hat which stayed on for the entire 15 seconds of the flight, two questions, did Igor test his first Heli?, and was it in USSR or USA?, I hope someone else saw it as well!
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