The personal helicopter from 1950's ("Aerocycle")

"Aerocycle"
Picture I

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Here we can see, that every flying vehicle in the world is very dangerous if it is used for the wrong purpose. If the security personnel would not expect that enemy might use miniature combat helicopters, would the protected person in big trouble. Those miniature helicopters can transfer the snipers very precisely in the roofs and other places, where normally is very difficult to go. And if the assassin would use this kind of device, would this person slip thru the security. If the seals have put to the roofs, and the sniper would go there after the check, could that person pass the security, and be dangerous for any target in the world.


The idea of the personal helicopter is not new, and here is one of the most successful models of the miniature aviation. In 1950's CIA and United States military created this kind of helicopters for multi-purpose usage, and they are the base of the modern miniature aviation devices. The developing of those miniature devices stopped because of accidents, but the idea of the vehicle was very good, and only the lack of suitable technology, like computers, what could stabilize this vehicle was caused the termination of this interesting project.


Sometimes there have been rumors that some special forces operators have used this kind of miniature devices in their operations, and if the device uses autorotation, it might be the good thing for land silent in the operation area. When this tiny helicopter is in the right altitude, the blowers under the system start to make the air cushion, that the device would not touch the ground. In the right altitude, the operator could jump to the ground, and then this tiny helicopter would fly away.


This kind of miniature devices can be used to raise the agent to the roofs, and the snipers could use them as the shooting platform, and they can be used to avoiding minefield. The operators could also use machine-guns, and the Pentagon hoped that they could be used as the miniaturized combat helicopters, where the operators would use assault weapons from the hand. Those devices would also be made in the form of "X-helicopter" what makes them more stable.


Another thing, what Pentagon wanted to use those devices was to carry bombs to the enemy lines, and also the electronic surveillance and cameras were hoped to install to those devices. Somebody sees the thermobaric explosives in the middle of the "Aerocycle", and this device could be ideal to deliver that kind of ammunition. Modern technology makes those devices easier to handle, and the technology, what is planned to use in those new devices, is actually the same, what is used in the miniature helicopters. And there are claims, that the CIA has the trunk, where could be put the four rotors what are hidden in the carbon fiber rods, and this device could be used for raise the agents to the roofs.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle

Films about this machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBHM1vZLzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oYS_5SgU_0

Picture I

https://www.ripleys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Aerocycle.jpg