Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] This was Star Trek stuff yesterday

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuß)]

Sorry - the first operable helicopter flew before the WWII in germany in 
a big hall with thousand of looking people inside the hall. The pilot
was a woman.
The first serial built helicopter flews also in germany - during WWII. 
Some of these units gets to US - short after the war.. 

Carsten

Coalbunny schrieb:
> 
> No joke man!  My grandfather was raised on a farm in Missouri and they
> didn't use any tractors.  Mules and he stuff they dragged.  He is still
> to this day amazed at all this new stuff they have out.  Though he
> disagrees with the history archives on some stuff.  Like the first
> helicopter.  History says the first experimental flew AFTER WW2.  Well
> he says he saw one just a few weeks before he was discharged in early
> '45.  He was in the navy and saw this ugly God-foresaken craft hovering
> in the air over a ship just outside Phily (I think it was Phily).  He
> was USN on a refridgerator ship in the Europian theater.