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give solid matter in order to support the heavier vehicles which traversed them. As the Twentieth Century progressed the number of vehicles increased at a much greater ratio than the improvement of the existing roads causing the frustration of traffic jams and slower transportation and thus increasing the need for a better means of getting from the airport in the country to the heart of the city.

In New York City, this problem of distant airports and heavy traffic is very acute. It can easily take two hours to go the fifteen miles from Newark Airport in New Jersey to Idlewild International Airport in Long Island, New York. It was obvious that there was a great need for some new mode of transportation to meet this multifaceted problem. 
     
During the Second World War, Igor Sikorsky perfected a machine, which could go up and down on the air vertically, that could be used commercially. With the advent of this machine man was able to land in a comparatively small area. Thus the distance between the airport in the country and the center of the metropolitan area could be bridged rapidly and the congestion of the crowded city streets could be eliminated. Because this craft could land on top of a building, no valuable urban property was required (1). This was one of the many vistas opened up with the conception of the vertically-rising aircraft. As time progressed, the Armed Services were presented with some of these new helicopters and found them of inestimable value in the war effort.