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Igor Sikorsky piloting VS-300 helicopter and setting a new record for suspension flight.

Shows Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter taking off vertically and in flight. Shows early helicopters, the Ornithopters, and Igor Sikorsky piloting VS-300 on May 6, 1941, setting a new record of one hour and thirty two minutes for suspension flight.

Location: Stratford Connecticut

Date: 1941, May 6

Duration: 2 min 0 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

US fighter aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky sets a record for hovering in air for 1½ hours in a VS-300 in Connecticut.

Designer of US fighter aircraft Igor Sikorsky sets a new record for hovering in air for 1:32 in Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in Stratford, Connecticut. People stand around the VS-300. A three-blade rotor rotates. VS-300 raises up from the group. The VS-300 hovering in the air. The VS-300 lowers down on the ground. People cheer and wave to Sikorsky for setting a record. People stand around Igor Sikorsky. A man approaches Sikorsky to congratulate him.

Location: Stratford Connecticut

Date: 1941, May 6

Duration: 41 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Igor Sikorsky, in Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter, sets new record for sustained flight,at Stratford, Connecticut

Igor Sikorsky seated inside Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, an experimental helicopter at a field behind the Vought-Sikorsky plant off Sniffens lane, Stratford, Connecticut. Sikorsky takes off in his VS-300 helicopter attempting to set a new world's endurance record for sustained flight. At one point during the flight, Robert Mackellar III, an employee, in white lab coat, holds up a sign reading "Worlds Record BROKEN, 1 hour 20 mts, as the helicopter continues to hover, breaking the record of 1 hour, 20 minutes and 40 seconds, set in 1937 by Heinrich Focke in Germany. Judges check their watches to confirm the airborne time of the helicopter. The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter sets a new record of 1 hour and 32 minutes sustained flight.

Location: Stratford Connecticut

Date: 1941, May 6

Duration: 46 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English