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firefly not the first manned electric helicopter TO FLY[edit]

My apologies for not understanding wikipedia procedures so I've put this here in the talk page

Article claims Sikorsky Firefly to be the first electric heli - unfortunately it is yet to fly - and this chap has just beaten them to it, with a homemade job that is credited with the first 'untethered, manned, electric helicopter flight'

http://www.gizmag.com/first-successful-manned-electric-helicopter-flight/19716/

Article date is 5 Sep 2011 and I found about it via slashdot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.174.171.89 (talk) 11:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]