FIRST PUBLIC FILM OF ARMY HELICOPTER - SIKORSKY XR-4 (1942)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The Sikorsky R-4 was a two-seat helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky with a single, three-bladed main rotor and powered by a radial engine. The R-4 was the world's first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces, the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. In U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard service, the helicopter was known as the Sikorsky HNS-1. (In British service, it was known as the Hoverfly.)
The R-4 began as the VS-316, which was developed from the famous experimental VS-300 helicopter, invented by Igor Sikorsky and publicly demonstrated in 1940. The VS-316 was designated the XR-4 under the United States Army Air Forces' series for "Rotorcraft" and is the aircraft the army is proudly showing off in this 1942 film.
The XR-4 first flew on 14 January 1942 and was accepted by the Army on 30 May 1942. The XR-4 exceeded all the previous helicopter endurance, altitude and airspeed records that had been set before it. The XR-4 completed a 761-mile (1,225 km) cross-country flight from Connecticut to Wright Field, Ohio, set a service ceiling record of 12,000 feet (3,700 m), while achieving 100 flight hours without a major incident and an airspeed approaching 90 mph (140 km/h).
Love the old school narration style
I know im 3 years late but I swear I read your comment before the video started imagined his voice and it was exactly spot on 😂 whatever happened to this accent ?
Truely the first modern helicopter.
Amazing how back then they could immagine the endless possibilitys of use for helicopters like this one.
It's a tiny experimental Type with very little use. The Focke Angelis 223 and Sud Est SE3000 were already useful Cargo Helicopters for very heavy Loads, and the Flettner 282 was a useful Combat Helicopter with better Performance at the same Power.
@@MyFabian94 the german helicopters did not see much service ether. Although they probably saw more service then the R-4 they defenetly didnt see more service then the Sikorsky R-5/S-48 which was used extensively by the U.S. navy during ww2 for ship to ship transport at the high seas.
Also the german helicopters all have one thing in common: None of them were modern designs!
Helicopters with a twin rotor configuration like on the Focke 223 and SE 3000 never sucseeded because such a design is simply garbadge and the Flettner 282 never saw any combat so you are just pulling s*** out of your a**.
Sikorsky realy revolutionised helicopter design with his helicopters which all had a single horizontal main rotor and a smaller vertical tail rotor. Given the fact that helicopters are build this day untill today this hands down proves that the U.S. Sikorsky helicopters were supirior to the germans during ww2.
@@jakobc.2558 Except for of course the Chinook, all of Kamov, Kaman, and wherever a large Lift Capacity is required.
@@MyFabian94 whenever a large lift capacity is required? Oh, like on the S-64 Skycrane?
@@jakobc.2558 For some reason you seem so butthurt. The germans built the world's first helicopter with production status (Fa 223) and the world's first series production helicopter (Fl 282). The U.S. developments during WW2 have always been reactions to other's inventions. Same with M4 Sherman. Me 262 was the first jet flying missions. U.S. machinery only got superior after the war when they took german engineers to the USA like von Braun who designed the moon rocket Saturn V.
Dude must be so pleased to be flying one of the first helicopters
He needed a hot cup of rosey lee afterwards thats for sure?..
It’s crazy how helicopters haven’t really changed much in essential design beyond power, size and reliability. Compare a model T to a Mustang, it has 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and a seat. That’s really where similarities end. But this craft is demonstrating essentially what’s inside an apache. Everything else is extra weight for mission operation.
WRONG!
"those rotors keep going, and the helicopter stands still"
oh, it takes a little more than that to keep a helo still
Flying a helo isn't a science, it's truly art in machine. Hats off to anyone who can fly them.
Yessir
🇺🇸thanks from John Robert Bruffett Junior of United States of America !
if this is used for deploying troops at omaha during d-day.. *fortunate son starts playing
Sekitar jam 8 pagi, pesawat Jepang terbang diatas Kota Ponorogo, untuk menjatuhkan selebaran pengumuman. Isinya adalah: supaya rakyat tak khawatir, supaya tetap berada di rumah karena Tentara Dai Nippon saudara tua, Tentara Dai Nippon pelindung Asia, Tentara Dai Nippon cahaya Asia.
Setelah 2 hari dari pengumuman tersebut, Tentara Dai Nippon datang ke Ponorogo. Semua orang Belanda ditangkap dan dinaikkan ke truk, dibawa ke Madiun. Di Ponorogo, orang Belanda hanya sedikit. Selain Asisten Residen, Kontrolir, Kepala Kehutanan di Desa Sukun karena 3 jabatan itu dijabat oleh orang Belanda.
Genious
Igor Sikorsky ~ Native Ukrainian , Born in Kyiv Capital of the Ukraine since 482 year , and the Ukraine are the Heart of the Kyivan Rus ( which means the Unity of the Lands ) Helicopter Designer And Inventor , which was Ukrainian Founder in the United States the First & Famoust Company Sikorsky AirCraft , which was beginning produce the First in the World Helicopters
Но вообще-то это русская инженерная школа.
@@Tolianchig lol The Nazi also invented helicopters and they deployed it
Igor Sikorsky was a native of Russia specifically from the Russian region of The Ukraine (The Borderlands). The Ukraine was never existed as a country, until a sentimental Khrushchev who was from the region and was tired of it not getting it's due respect, made it a sort of honorary country in 1954 (Russians used "The Borderlands", like Americans use "Flyover Country" for the Midwest).
No one really took The Ukraine seriously as a country separate from Russia, until after the fall of the USSR, when NATO pumped it full of relentless anti-Russian propaganda, to keep both Russia and The Ukraine weak by creating a wedge between them, while Western carpetbaggers exploited both The Ukraine and Russia. When Vladimir Putin began to build up Russia, so it would no longer be under Western control, NATO turned up anti-Russian propaganda in The Ukraine even more and then sponsored Nazis to take control of The Ukraine in 2014. These were the same Nazis who dated back to before World War II, who were propped up by Western intelligence in The Ukraine all throughout The Cold War, so that they would be a thorn in the side of the USSR.
It a damn shame, that the West now is further exploiting The Ukraine to the "last Ukrainian", in NATO's proxy war against Russia.
@@mynamenameless6265 They couldn't mass produce them
lol, one minute on wikipedia and this is DEBUNKED!!!!!! Igor was RUSSIAN.
Stay. Mad.
Superb
Nice
how far we have came
I don't need a helmet: I'm in a helicopter!
Sorry what
Tally ho old boy, need a lift?...here warm ones self up with a hot cup of rosey lee..
Noicez
2:47 Show Charly a thing or two,... 25 years later.
الموسيقى👍👍👍👍👍👍
Imagine mounting an M1919 30 caliber on the door
2:30 😂
The Germans had a plane with 2 rotors it was a prototype during WW2 but wasn’t mass produced because us Americans and the Russians bombed their factories 😂
Still considered the world's first helicopter with production status. ;)
@@GrandTheftChris yep the Germans were good at making weapons and vehicles
Neither of them did actually it was destroyed by RAF halifax's bombers in early 42...at Delmenhurst... Cherio old boy.. Need a lift....
The good old days...just flying a experimental aircraft, in formal military atire without hearing protection or safety equipment...😅
Old school
Pilot must hate his wifes nagging !!!!! No ear protection . Please doc make it stop .
This has only 165hp!!
No ear protection at all . Who need there hearing anyway .
Real men dont need ear protection all they need is tea...😜😂.
Legendary Ukrainian AviaEngineer Born in Kyiv Capital of the UKRAINE
But there was no Ukraine before. Only Imperial Russia.
@@jwm6314 Did so already during Imperial Russia. He built the world's first four-engined aircraft and later also the innovative Muromets bomber of WWI. Listen. Nothing can stop a genius or invention. The only real difference was that his projects were *funded* in the USA. Makes sense. It was the world's largest market back then already so it's not like he could have had his projects funded in France, the United Kingdom or Canada.
Also, it just happened to be a war so the U.S. Government gave *anybody* with an interesting idea for new vehicles or arms the funding they needed. Heck, Howard Hughes's giant white elephant - the Hercules H-4 (mockingly called "Spruce Goose") started as a project to try and airlift cargo rather than shipping it and risk the (at the time) very dangerous German wolfpacks of submarines. After the war the plug was pulled on this project and Hughes was accused of wasting tax payer money for an aircraft nobody needed and which probably couldn't fly...
No war? The development of the helicopter might have been delayed for an another decade if not more.
Context, context, context.
And OP is wrong. He might have been born in what is today Ukraine but Sikorsky himself considered himself ethnically Russian. His father was even an ardent Russian nationalist. Bit this is nothing new, all kinds of countries try to claim the birthright for different inventors. For instance even though there was no Croatia back in the 1850's when Nikola Tesla was born and the fact that he was an ethnic Serb a lot of Croats seem to believe that him being born in some town which today happens to be located in modern day Croatia makes him "Croatian". The city he was born in belonged to Austria back then and he even spoke German so Austrians would have more right claiming him, but they don't because they're not some Balkan country trying to claim any inventor as their own.
Legendary Maloross -«little Russian» AviaEngineer Born in Kyiv Capital of the Imperial Russia.
they should build a replica
Yes, definitely.