ROTARY PIONEERS

The first RAF helicopter pilot trainees learned their craft on the Sikorsky Hoverfly during 1945 A very neat formation of the Helicopter Training Flight’s Sikorsky Hoverfly Is in the hover. In the foreground is KK990. ALL PHOTOS AEROPLANE AEROPLANEARCHIVE: SIKORSKY HOVERFLY When the RAF started flying helicopters, there was really only one model it could turn to. After a maiden flight in January 1942, the Sikorsky R-4 had become the first machine of its type to enter true series production,