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)
General survey of helicopters with emphasis on engineering design
Liverpool Eng Soc -- Trans
Liverpool Engineering Society -- Transactions ; 76 ; p 87-107
1955
21 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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