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

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

I should have doubled checked my history Carsten.  Thanks!
Carl


Carsten Standfuß wrote:
> 
> 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.

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