More murdercopters, but this time they’re French
I'm fascinated by early helicopters — and the people whose brains created them. I get planes. It's pretty easy to look at a soaring bird and extrapolate that if you made a contraption with the right kind of wing, a human could use it to glide like a hawk. But the whirligig motion required to make rotorcraft fly isn't as obvious. Whose brain thought, "If I attach propeller blades to a blender and hold it above my head, I'll probably fly and also maybe not die?" Ridiculous and terrifying murdercopters are my favorite genre of aircraft. Longtime newsletter subscribers may…