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作者簡介

洪婉婷
 
　　美國聖荷西州立大學經濟碩士
　　日本東海大學
　　政治經濟學部經營學士
　　曾任職日商駐美辦事處
　　高階主管9年
　　多年英語教學經驗
 
　　【著作】國貿與新多益一魚兩吃

Unit 19
 
19-1 Helicopter by Igor Sikorsky
 
Helicopter
 
Different from an airplane, a helicopter relies on rotors to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward backward and laterally. Because of its flexibility, it allows taking off and landing at limited areas. Therefore, helicopters are often used for rescues or ironically wars.
 
The earliest reference for vertical flight originated from bamboo copter  developed in 400 BC. The theory of the bamboo copter is to spin the stick attached to a rotor. The spinning creates lift, and the toy flies when released.  This is the origin of the helicopter development which scientists all over the world spent hundreds of years developing so that we can have helicopter today.
 
About a thousand years later, Leonardo da Vinci created a design that was made towards vertical flight called “aerial screw”. Another 300 years later, Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov developed a small coaxial modeled and demonstrated it to the Russian Academy. It was another 100 years later, in 1861, the word “helicopter” was named by a French inventor, Gustave de Ponton dAmecourt, who made a small, steam powered helicopter made with aluminum, although this model never lifted off the ground.
 
Since then, helicopter development was going on all over the world. From the United States, to England, France, Denmark and even Russia. But it was not until 1942 that a helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky reached a full-scale production. The most common helicopter configuration had a single main rotor with anti-torque tail rotor, unlike the earlier designs that had multiple rotor.
 
Centuries of development later, the invention of helicopter improves the transportation of people and cargo, uses for military, construction, firefighting, research, rescue, medical transport, and many others. The contributions are uncountable.