Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
THE HELICOPTER(SIKORSKY, IGOR.) United Aircraft Corporation. Patent Specification 551,156 . . . Improvements in or relating to Aircraft. 5 plates, all but the last double-page (rehinged with cloth tape). 8 pages. 4to, disbound.<\t>(London, 1943)

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First printing of the British patent for Sikorsky's single-rotor helicopter, which became the standard configuration and marked the beginning of practical vertical flight. <