Which Russian-American is credited with inventing the helicopter?
Human-powered helicopter Human-powered helicopter A human-powered helicopter (HPH) is a helicopter powered solely by one or more humans carried on board. As in other human-powered aircraft, the power is usually generated by pedalling. It remains a considerable engineering challenge to obtain both the power-to-weight ratio and rotor efficiency required to sustain a helicopter in flight. On 13 June 2013, the AeroVelo Atlas was the first to complete a flight that lasted 64 seconds and reached an altitude of 3.3 metres, thus winning the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International's Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition. The American Helicopter Society (AHS) International's Igor
Inventing the "American Way" Award. Inventing the "American Way" Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement is a 2008 book by American historian Wendy L. Wall, then a professor at Queen's University, and currently at Binghamton University. It deals with postwar consensus politics and a national unity which developed from governmental response to the rise of communism and fascism. Wall argues that national unity projects were forged, in order to unite Americans around what seemed to be their common values. According to Kevin M. Kruse from Princeton University, Wall shows that "concepts most Americans