Douheret’s early helicopter (1920)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Inventor R. Douheret demonstrates propellor-run flying machine Full Description: FRANCE: EXT SV M. Douheret wheels his strange machine into field. It has a rectangular base, with 6 wheels, two large, four small, at one end is a fin, at the top are two propellers going round and round. flying machine, invention, inventor, demonstration, exhibition, autogyro, helicopter, gyroplane SV machine in centre of field, onlookers gathered round edges of field. flying machine, invention, inventor, demonstration, exhibition, propellor, autogyro, helicopter, gyroplane MV, CU M. Douheret turns wheel at centre of structure. flying machine, invention, inventor, demonstration, exhibition, propellor, autogyro, helicopter, gyroplane SVs M. Douheret sits down on base of structure, the structure appears to be moving backwards. flying machine, invention, inventor, demon