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Flight testing of a bi-wing Berliner Helicopter in Washington DC.

Test flight of a Berliner helicopter by Henry Berliner. A hybrid airplane helicopter built by Emile Berliner and his son Henry Berliner is shown during a Washington DC test flight. It rises and move forward in short hops. The lighter weight design and high incidence large camber lower wing indicates it was likely built in 1924 or 1925 as one of the last Berliner models, following after a triplane version that was test flown in February 1924.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039279
Testing of an early helicopter-ornithopter invention in Chicago with five rotating wheels like those of a paddle boat.

Test of an early helicopter ornithopter aircraft design in Chicago. A helicopter with five rotating blades that turn sideways in a fashion like a paddle boat. Engineer trying to fly a helicopter and is examining the controls from the tail of helicopter. It never leaves the ground.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039280
De Bothezat helicopter test flight shows the quadrotor aircraft flying just above the ground

De Bothezat helicopter with four rotors rotating at each end of its arms. The experimental quadrotor designed by George de Bothezat is seen in flight at McCook Field in Dayton Ohio. The helicopter rising just above the ground and moving from side to side but remaining just aloft, then descending while a man stands nearby.

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039281
Testing and inspection of Plane-Radial lifting screw and pitch variation of the de Bothezat helicopter.

View of rotor blades revolving on a vertical axis above the fuselage. Engineers working on Plane-Radical lifting screw and inspecting the pitch variation of De Bothezat helicopter during its development at McCook Field in Dayton Ohio, under a contract with Russian immigrant George de Bothezat issued by the U.S. Army Air Service. Engineers inspecting at fuselage. Professor George de Bothezat, the inventor of the helicopter, Lieutenant Colonel J.E.Fetchet and Major T.H.Bane discussing. Professor De Bothezat and four officers sitting on cart to which the screw is attached are lifted as the large rotor turns. The rotor went on to be used in the so called Jerome-de Bothezat Flying Octopus helicopter that featured four 6-bladed rotors.

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1921, July 24
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039283
United States Army Air Service Officers inspecting the helicopter of inventor George de Bothezat

At McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. Army Air Service engineers inspecting Plane-Radial screw (helicopter lift mechanism) of George De Bothezat, a Russian immigrant working under contract with the Army. General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, inspects the radial screw. 1000 pounds of weight is lifted by lifting-rotor utilizing 35 horsepower. View of revolving rotor blade and officers in background. Brigadier General William Mitchell ( "Billy Mitchell" ) also inspects the work and discusses with George de Bothezat. Test flight for then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover of the Jerome-de Bothezat Flying Octopus, equipped with four 6-bladed rotors. George de Bothezat in the pilot seat as the large helicopter lifts. It is held from going up very high and stabilized by men all around it. Another test with de Bothezat's assistant Mr. Eremeff in the pilot seat.

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1922
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039284
Early helicopter by American Leinweber brothers, and one made by Frenchman M. Douheret

Slate refers to Leinweber brothers helicopter in Chicago. View of their helicopter being moved out of a hangar in 1922. Closeup of helicopter controls being demonstrated. Next, a helicopter of M. Douheret, of France, is shown in 1919. Men stand nearby and watch its rotors turn in the breeze. Engine cylinders are clearly visible. Pilot sits in the machine and adjusts controls. Next he stands and starts engine. Suddenly, the running helicopter tips over and he runs for safety but returns to shut the engine down. In a second attempt, the pilot is again seen standing next to the machine, with its engine running. And, again, he must run to safety, as it tips over. This time it stops running by itself, and other men help him tip it back upright.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1922, November
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039285
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