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Helicopters in the Royal Navy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
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“An historian is a prophet in reverse”.
Friedrich Von SchiegelThe advantages to a Navy of an aircraft which can operate from a relatively small deck area are enormous and it is not surprising that the British as a maritime nation were in the forefront of the development of rotary wing aircraft for use at sea. However, the first man to land a rotary wing aircraft on a ship other than an aircraft carrier was an ex-Royal Air Force Officer R. A. C. Brie and the ship was the Italian cruiser Fiume.
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