Early attempts at creating a helicopter. The Pitts Sky Car Back in the 1920s, John W. Pitts had a wild dream of vertical flight. The famous Pitts Sky Car. The Design: It featured a massive circular rotor with sixty hinged blades



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    1. There are definitely simpler ways to cut off your own head. That seems to be the clear intention of this death trap.

    2. Nervous-Pay9254 on

      If I made this the seatbelts would have been an after thought, but at least I would have died doing what I loved. Getting decapitated by a massive circular rotor, with sixty hinged blades.

    3. This looks like something Frog and Toad would try on their third attempt to generate lift.

      “Well Toad, if the Car bit isn’t enough to generate lift, and the Spinny bit isn’t enough to generate lift, then surely the car-based bouncy spinny bit is sure to work.”

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