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Helicopters in the Royal Navy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

L. B. Bryson ,
F. E. Heenan  and
C. A. Johnson
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Extract

“An historian is a prophet in reverse”.

Friedrich Von Schiegel

The advantages to a Navy of an aircraft which can operate from a relatively small deck area are enormous and it is not surprising that the British as a maritime nation were in the forefront of the development of rotary wing aircraft for use at sea. However, the first man to land a rotary wing aircraft on a ship other than an aircraft carrier was an ex-Royal Air Force Officer R. A. C. Brie and the ship was the Italian cruiser Fiume.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 76 , Issue 740 , August 1972 , pp. 469 - 500
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1972 

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