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Started in 1943, the American Helicopter Society (AHS) is an international technical society for engineers, scientists and others working on vertical flight technology.
NASM.2003.0040
American Helicopter Society
bulk 1905-1990
AHS International / M. E. Flater, Gift, 2003
5 Cubic feet ((7 boxes))
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 333 copy negatives, 51 motion picture films, and publications, including manuals, reports, studies, thesis, and lectures, all relating to the various aspects of helicopters. The 333 copy negatives are from the following work: Rotary-Wing Aircraft Handbooks and History, a series of 18 Volumes, edited by E. K. Liberatore, Prewitt Aircraft Co. This work was prepared for the Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, circa 1954..
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American Helicopter Society Collection, Accession 2003-0040, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
Helicopters
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Copy negatives
Motion pictures (visual works)
Technical manuals
Technical reports