The Bleecker Helicopter was designed by
Maitland B. Bleecker, a junior engineer from the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The aircraft was constructed by Curtiss Wright for $250,000 over the course of four years at Garden City. The aircraft featured a rotary wing design with a single engine. Each rotor, painted silver and yellow, had an individual propeller for thrust and a trailing control surface called a "stabovator" to change pitch of the rotor. The aircraft was controlled by a stick that operated like a modern helicopter collective control. Yaw was controlled with a "spin vane" that used downwash from the rotor to pivot the aircraft with foot pedals. ==Operational history==