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...confused with the autogiro, which uses an airplane propeller for forward movement, can neither take off vertically, hover (except with the help of a good wind), nor travel sideways or backward...
...what he knew seemed to satisfy him. He had seen an airman's dream come true: the helicopter* (which irreverent Sikorsky disciples, in mock-Russian accent, call the helicopéter) could now do more than take off straight up in the air, land straight down and hover motionless. It could also carry a respectable load (two passengers), enough gasoline to make cross-country flights...
...tail propellers were reduced to one, a seven-cylinder Warner radial engine was installed, the body was decently covered, slicked with windshield and windows. In tests, the Army found that it would do all that Igor Sikorsky had promised and more. It can hover so steadily that once an army man let down a ladder, got out on the ground, got back and pulled the ladder in after him before the pilot sent his craft aloft again...
...helicopter can land safely almost anywhere (newsmen at United Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hartford recently saw one put down atop a mountainous snow pile). It can travel faster than a motorcycle, hover or land where no motorcycle could travel (e.g., a wooded mountaintop). It could also be used for rescuing injured men from plane crashes in inaccessible places, might also be handy for artillery spotting. With floats it can land and take off either from water or land. If its engine fails, the helicopter can land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky...
...security and freedom from political interference still stands between the "free" China of the proposed treaty and the independent China that is the dream stimulating her whole war effort. When China is promised that she will be allowed to survive economically, when she is promised that no gunboats will hover outside her ports determining her domestic policy, then she will feel she has won the support of her allies...