Join us for a free webinar exploring the history and development of rotorcraft. Harold Rosenstein, instructor of our Fundamentals of V/STOL Rotorcraft course, will take us from the earliest simplistic attempts at vertical flight to the modern age of tiltrotor transport configuration, composite fuselages and rotors and fly-by-wire control systems.

Webinar topics include:

• How early rotorcraft models incorporated steam, coaxial springs, turkey feathers, whalebone, clock springs and gun cotton - with varying degrees of success.
• Lessons learned from the first "successful" flights, which took place in the early 1900s
• Key developments that solved some of the early problems
• The 1940s - the birth of the industry
• The 1950s - developing technologies for the modern age
• The modern age - bigger and faster
• What challenges do we still face?

This webinar was held on August 8, 2018.
To view the recording of this webinar, visit: https://jayhawkglobal.ku.edu/aero-webinars

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