Interesting Helicopter and Fixed-wing Facts for Escondido, CA

A landing via autorotation is also sometimes necessary if the rear rotor blades stop functioning properly, no longer countering for the torque of the main rotor blades, so the helicopter will spin if the engine isnt turned off.

Aviation Quotes for Escondido, CA

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

Sikorsky soon became a successful aircraft manufacturer in his adopted homeland. But his dream was vertical take-off, rotary wing flight. He experimented for more than twenty years and finally, in 1939, flew his first flight in a craft dubbed the VS 300.