{"id":167425,"date":"2025-01-16T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sikorsky-s-47-remembering-1st-flight-1st-us-military-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:03:27","slug":"sikorsky-s-47-a-look-back-at-the-1st-flight-of-the-1st-us-military-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=167425","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky S-47: A Look Back At The 1st Flight Of The 1st US Military Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sikorsky S-47 was the first US military             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"185576\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopter\/\"  >helicopter<\/a><\/span> designed by             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257505\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sikorsky\/\"  >Sikorsky<\/a><\/span> and designed without any US Government assistance during the height of World War II. The S-47, also known as the R-4 and VS-316A, would go on to provide the world\u2019s first helicopter rescues and was the first mass-produced helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of the Sikorsky S-47 83 years and a day after it&#8217;s first flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,595,816,408,8994,6438,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-helicopter","category-history","category-rescue","category-sikorsky","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167426,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167425\/revisions\/167426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}