In what year did the first helicopter flight take place?

Question

In what year did the first helicopter flight take place?

Answer 1

1937

First successful helicopter flight. Hanna Reitsch, a German pilot, flew Dr. Heinrich Focke's FW-61 in free, fully controlled flight at Bremen (July 4). Ms. Reitsch was also the first woman civil and military aviation test pilot.

Answer 2

In 1906 French inventor Paul Cornu designed and built a helicopter that used two 20-foot (6-meter) counter-rotating rotors driven by a 24 hp (18-kW) Antoinette engine. On 13 November 1907, it lifted its inventor to 1 foot (0.3 meters), and remained aloft for 20 seconds. It was the first true free flight with a pilot. In 1942 Igor Sikorsky was the first helicopter designer to enter full production.