SERVED STRAIGHT UP

From: Mechanical Engineering | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Winters, Jeffrey | Copyright information

The Archimedes screw took the flying machine in an entirely new direction.

Its skeletal frame sat chained up in a Connecticut field, looking like a beast that had been left to starve. Indeed, everything about the VS-300 was bare-boned: The cockpit was just a seat in front of the exposed 75-horsepower engine; belts and pulleys drove the blades; the vertical rotor spun at the end of an awkward spar.

But as unlikely as it looked, the VS-300 was a flying machine. In the fall of 1939...

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