📚 Helicopters

Wings that turn instead of fly: the rotor theory, the rescue and offshore work, and the machines that proved it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject helicopters in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Operation of aircraft	International Civil Aviation Organization. Council	1970	12
	Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook	Derek Wood	1979	11
	The International Directory of Civil Aircraft	Gerard Frawley	1995	11
	Helicopters	Mari C. Schuh	2017	10
	How do helicopters work?	Jennifer Boothroyd	2012	8
	Jane's aircraft recognition guide	David Rendall	1996	7
	The story of the Winged-S	Sikorsky, Igor Ivan	1938	6
	Reduction of high-speed impulsive noise by blade planform modification of a model helicopter rotor	David A. Conner	1982	6
	The UH-1H helicopter icing flight test program	Robert J. Shaw	1985	6
	Plane	Chris Oxlade	1996	6
	Aerodynamics of the helicopter	Alfred Gessow	1952	5
	Helicopters and autogyros of the world	Paul Marcel Lambermont	1958	5
	Helicopters of the world	Michael John Haddrick Taylor	1976	5
	UH-60A Black Hawk engineering simulation program	J. J. Howlett	1981	5
	Self-tuning regulators for multicyclic control of helicopter vibration	Wayne Johnson	1982	5
	Validation of a real-time engineering simulation of the UH-60A helicopter	Mark G. Ballin	1987	5
	Helicopters	Ian Graham	1989	5
	Helicopters	Darlene R. Stille	1997	5
	Mil Mi-24 Hind gunship	Alexander Mladenov	2006	5
	The helicopter and how it flies	John Fay	1954	4
	The world's helicopters	Joan Bradbrooke	1972	4
	Helicopter theory	Wayne Johnson	1980	4
	Helicopter Performance, Stability, and Control	Raymond W. Prouty	1986	4
	Full-scale transmission testing to evaluate advanced lubricants	David G. Lewicki	1992	4
	Helicopter flight dynamics	G. D. Padfield	1995	4
	Helicopter	Chris Oxlade	1996	4
	Apache AH-64 Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) 1976-2005	Chris Bishop	2005	4
	Helicopters on the Move	Jeffrey Zuehlke	2010	4
	Helicopters work like this	Basil Arkell	1956	3
	Bristol aircraft since 1910	C. H. Barnes	1964	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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