Author advances proposition that helicopter is potentially capable of entering non-luxury transport market for conveyance of persons, and attempts to prove that it can be reduced in cost to margin within 50% of present day surface transport cost; consideration of "efficiency of sustentation" and "efficiency of locomotion" as they bear on development of helicopter transportation. (See also - discussion p 108-13)


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    Title :

    General survey of helicopters with emphasis on engineering design


    Additional title:

    Liverpool Eng Soc -- Trans


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1955


    Size :

    21 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :