At the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in Honolulu, a man walked in with an aluminum toy ray gun—unloaded, of course. The water pistol was called the Hiller Atom Ray Gun and was made in 1948, part of the wave of ...

Various helicopter builders at the time in the early 50s heard about this new flying platform concept and sought out the armed forces to win these contracts. If they got it right, the military would ...