Your Flying Flivver 67 



home," declares Mr. Sikorsky. "By the use of a helicopter 

 shuttle service, oranges that yesterday were on the trees in 

 Florida and California will be moved today to the big air- 

 freight terminals and dropped off. They will then reach your 

 grocer the next day by the freight-helicopter connecting 

 lines to small centers of the population and from your grocer 

 they will come to your door by his helicopter service." 



It seems more than probable that helicopters will also expe- 

 dite the settlement of vast areas of land in this country that 

 are as yet sparsely populated, and incidentally increase the 

 value of summer-resort property within a radius of three hun- 

 dred miles of the large cities. That cabin in the mountains 

 that you would visit more often if the trip did not mean such 

 a long drive will become accessible within a couple of hours 

 by helicopter. 



"I am convinced," Mr. Sikorsky declared, "that within a 

 decade after the war there will be hundreds of thousands, and 

 possibly a million, helicopters in actual use in this country." 



This prediction seems reasonable enough considering that 

 Mr. Sikorsky is making it about a machine of his own design. 

 It is well known among designers that Sikorsky has a mania 

 about making his planes safe to fly. This is nothing new. He 

 was fuming and fretting about adding safety measures and 

 devices to his huge land planes back in the early days of the 

 first World War when most designers were still congratulat- 

 ing themselves that the flying machine would actually stay in 

 the air for a reasonable period. Evidences of this fetish are to 

 be found in every plane he ever designed, including the fighter 

 planes. 



The De Bothezat Helicopter 



Stranger-looking and more revolutionary in design than 

 Sikorsky's helicopter is the new-type helicopter designed and 



