the italian machine before it could barely reach the roof of a five story building chiyo mickens helicopter flew as high as today's tallest skyscrapers but with to secrecy that surrounded his work at the central aero hydrodynamic institute sunday the soviet record went long unrecognized despite increasing agreement on the rotor and fuselage design not all the test flights were soaring success the meteoric rise of airplanes and the interruption of world war two delayed the wider application of pioneering ideas but the foundation of an industry and in really. today's modern aircraft are under careful control a far cry from the primitive machines that made the first big aviation breakthrough we traded in the limited manual systems for gyroscope orientation technology. for those used to modern gadgets it may be hard to imagine a world with gyroscopes they found their way into everything from space ships to smartphones and they're also behind the balance and control systems of these toy helicopters pushing the company into lots is at the forefront of the industry it's making this both possible a