Sikorsky's VS-300 Helicopter

Aeronautical engineer Igor Sikorsky is shown in his 75-horsepower helicopter during its

first successful, fully controlled vertical flight in 1939. Equipped with a variable pitch

windmill rotor, the device went straight up for 9.5 m (30 ft), flew 62 m (200 ft) and

came straight down. The two additional tiny rotors in the rear of the fuselage act as

elevators and the third serves as the rudder.