50 Strangest Aircraft Ever Made

RotorWay Javelin Personal Helicopter

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This is a single-seat light helicopter designed in the early 1960s by B.J. Schramm. Schramm began marketing the aircraft before he built it as early as 1958. People dubbed it the RotorWay or Schramm helicopter. Schramm wanted a simple helicopter to fly that had few components making maintenance easy. Though he did not quite get this chopper manufacturer-ready, it was a great learning experience. The Scorpion, RotorWay’s first production helicopter, was quite lucrative when they began to sell it in 1967. As of 2022, the company still makes helicopters.