Brennan Helicopter up for 15 Minutes: Passengers and a Load of 1,000 Lb.
Mr. Louis Brennan, the inventer, who has been State-aided in his researches, has succeeded in so perfecting his - helicopter aeroplane that it has hovered for nearly a quarter of an hour at a height of 20 feet. All the time the machine was in perfect control. It carried passengers and a military load of 1,000 Ib.
This achievement marks the most important and far-reaching step yet made in aeronautics and places England ahead of al] other countries in the search for a machine which will rise vertically and fly horizontally. The Brennan helicopter has been designed and constructed in the monster airship shed at: South Farnborough, Hants. It was in this shed that the flight took place. The utmost secrecy has surrounded the work. An-armed guard has been on duty night and day for months. The invention when perfected—and Mr. Brennan now will devote himself to the question of horizontal and vertical flight—will entirely -revolutionize flying, since aircraft will no longer need large aerodromes. for getting away and alighting. It renders quite possible a future in which there will be hotel aeroplane ranks on the roof, just as now there are taxicab ranks outside the door. For military purposes its possibilities are enormous. The Air Ministry experts are delighted with the success accomplished at Farnborough.
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