When a decision in the Past results in an unnatural road in the Present, on the way to the inevitable Future.
The following excerpt is from;
'Heelicopter : pioneering with Igor Sikorsky : based on a personal account'; by William E. Hunt.
Bill Hunt was the main design engineer for Igor Sikorsky and was responsible for most of Sikorsky's advancements in rotor design.
"The entirely unexpected and unfortunate delays suffered by the prime contractor, Platt-Le Page with its
XR-1 ...... suddenly thrust the Sikorsky
XR-4, YR-4, R-4 into the entirely unplanned limelight."
A yearend reflection on how much more advanced today's rotorcraft would be, if only the American rotorcraft industry had continued with the German
adjacent configurations.