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PESCARA HELICOPTER AND HELICOPLANE 

Mr. Pescara has done a great amount of work to perfect a helicopter and recently won the prize offered by the French Technical Section for the construction of a helicopter that would lift itself and pilot from the ground a distance of at least one meter and return to earth without mishap.

More recently Mr. Pescara has been devoting his energies to the production of a machine embodying the principles of both a helicopter and an airplane which he has styled a helicoplane.  He stated that he had already received an order from the French Government to proceed with the construction.

Three sketches drawn from memory are included in this report as Graph No. 38 on page 162 of the Graphic Supplement.

This machine has upper and lower wings revolving in opposite directions.  They are connected through gearing and clutches to a 300 h.p. engine situated immediately back of the wings in the fuselage.  This motor is also connected through a clutch to a pusher propeller mounted at the rear end of the fuselage.  The pilot sits immediately forward of the wings.  The radiator is located in the front end of the fuselage.  The machine will weigh 850 kilo-grammes 

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