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Helihome: The Insane 1970’s Flying Camper (Video)


You can convert an old helicopter become a camper. But here’s another concept entirely on another level: how about you spend your vacation on a helicopter aka a helical odometer?

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Of course, there are many crazy engineering ideas out there. Most of them never become real projects. But the idea of ​​a flying house is an exception to this rule. In the late 1970s, a small airline company received an order to build a recreational flying vehicle that even today might be called an exotic, or perhaps the most extraordinary development in the world. aviation field.

“Helihome” is actually a fully equipped flying camp based on the fuselage of a decommissioned US military helicopter “Sikorsky S-58”. Watch the full story of this machine in the video below: