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Platt-LePage Aircraft Company : ウィキペディア英語版 | Platt-LePage Aircraft Company
The Platt-LePage Aircraft Company was a manufacturer of aircraft for the armed forces of the United States of America. Based in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, the company produced the first helicopter to be officially acquired by the United States Army Air Forces. ==Establishment== Wynn Laurence LePage, a British Aeronautical Engineer living in Pennsylvania, who co-founded the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company in partnership with Haviland Hull Platt, the company's intended purpose being the manufacture of helicopters.〔McGowen 2005, p.18.〕 LePage, impressed by the performance of the German Focke-Wulf Fa 61,〔Francillon 1990, p.48.〕 acquired the manufacturing rights to the aircraft.〔Raines 2002, p.42.〕 Two early helicopter prototypes developed by the company failed to meet with any success;〔Charnov 2003, pp.171.〕 however in 1940, under the terms of the Dorsey-Logan Act,〔Leishman 2006, p715.〕 Platt-Lepage was declared the winner of a competition to supply the Army with its first helicopter.〔Pattillo 2000, p.142.〕
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