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From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Dr. Santiago Duarte" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:58:13 -0800

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

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Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
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Sing like nobody's listening.
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  From: Dr. Santiago Duarte 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 7:10 PM

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  "1/72 Sikorsky VS-300" 
  by Santiago Duarte 
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  This is the Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter, made by ExtraTech in a very rare 1:72 scale, this is a resin kit with a plenty of so tiny photoetched parts, that was a nightmare to cut & manipulated them. Any way, it was a delightful to see it finished, because as an helicopter fan, I know that the U.S. Sikorsky V300 became the first successful helicopter and had a very important role in the development of all further VTOL machines.

  Mr. Igor Sikorsky made himself, the first free flight on this machine on 13 May 1940, by July he was making useful 15 minutes of free flights, and on 6 May 1941 the further revised craft, now called oficially called VS-300A, beat the helicopter endurance record by staying aloft for 1 hour 32 minutes 26.1 seconds.  By this time the cyclic pitch had been perfected and made operative, and the "A" was added to its formal designation when Mr. Sikorsky felt he had reached a suitable configuration.  In all, there were 18 visibly different configurations of this machine; at on time, in mid 1940, it had no nose wheel, but only a curved skid under each end.  In april, Mr. Igor Sikorsky fitted two large rubber fabric floatation bags (the model version I choose) and carried out a successful flights from water enviroments.  Another change was a further increase in power, the 90hp Franklin engine being exchanged for a flat six of the same make and rated at 150hp.  Mr. Sikorsky continued to improve this historic machine through out the 1942, and the following year it was placed on view in the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, Michigan, where it remained and where I could capture some reference images for my project.

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  Photos and text © by Santiago Duarte