Helicopters & Other Rotorcraft Since 1907, Pocket Encyclopedia of World Aircraft in Color

"These little handbooks - indispensable to the buff or the researcher- represent a pocket encyclopedia of the principle military aircraft of the world, complete with colored plates and brief but comprehensive descriptions." - The New York Times Helicopters and Other Rotorcreft Since 1907 is an illustrated encyclopedia of rotorcraft from the first primitive, exploratory machines to the latest, fastest helicopters in world-wide service today. From France's pioneer Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.1 of 1907 to America's Sikorsky VS-300, the first fully practical helicopter, to the wide variety of models developed and flown in the 1960s-ranging in size from West Germany's diminutive thirteen-foot Wagner Sky- Trac 3 to the gigantic Russian Mil Mi-6 of Aeroflot, which can carryover one hundred people-the principal rotorcraft developed and flown in the 20th century are illustrated in full color and described in detail in this new volume of The Pocket Encyclopedia of World Aircraft in Color. Eighty-two representative rotorcraft developed by the U.S., Britain, France, the U.S.S.R., Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, West Germany, and Spain are displayed in their major aspects side elevation, plan view from above, and plan view from below-in drawings that combine maximum visual appeal with essential details of construction. The accompanying captions specify important details such as the date of each plane's first appearance, physical specifications, take off weight, speed, operational ceiling. The accompanying text, fully describing each craft's development and service career, rounds out this unique pocket introduction to "the toy that grew up," the versatile aircraft which today is both the principal workhorse of the war in Vietnam and the all-purpose flying wonder of the private and com mercial worlds.