Hoppicopter is the name given this first really personal flying machine by its inventor, Horace T. Pentecost, of Seattle, Washington, in 1945. Resembling a helicopter, it is powered by a 20-horse-power, two-cylinder engine that is strapped on the "pilot's" back. He operates the flight stick with his right hand and the throttle with his left. The CAA licensed the device as an experimental type of aircraft.
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