Frank Piasecki (1919 to 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter pioneer who developed tandem rotor helicopters and created the compound helicopter concept of vectored thrust using a ducted propeller. Born in Philadelphia to an immigrant Polish tailor, he worked for autogyro manufacturers while still at high school, studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and took his degree at New York University. After working as a control engineer on the Platt-LePage XR-1 twin-rotor project he formed PV Engineering Forum in 1940, and on April 11, 1943 he flew his single-person PV-2 helicopter, which won him a United States Navy development contract. The firm became the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation in 1946; forced out in 1955, he formed the Piasecki Aircraft Company, where he took part in the 16H-1 compound helicopter, the AirGeep, the PA-97 Helistat and the X-49. He received the Franklin Institute's Philip H. Ward Jr. Medal in 1979 and the National Medal of Technology in 1986.
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He built a single-person, single-rotor helicopter designated the PV-2
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Piasecki pioneered tandem rotor helicopter designs
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In 1940, he formed PV Engineering Forum with former Pennsylvania classmate Harold Venzie.
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October 24, 1919, February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer
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October 24, 1919, February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer
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was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer
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then studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
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formed the Piasecki Aircraft Company
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