a helicopter serving as a taxi
In the 1943 quotation, referring to a small helicopter for personal use.
The ‘helicab’, a streamlined helicopter for family service…will have all the advantages of Igor Sikorsky’s helicopter for vertical ascent, the capacity to hover, and landing in a very small space.
I'm a hack, and I'm looking for a new helicab—something in fair condition. What have you got?
The helicab was parked in front of the house.
It was ten minutes past high noon when I paid off my helicab, ducked under the air blast from the caged high-speed rotors…and looked around at the sun-scalded, dust-white, mob-noisy bazaar of the trucial camp-city of Tamboula, Republic of Free Algeria.
One moment he and Billy were stepping from the elevator onto the darkened rooftop of the Merriman’s apartment and walking across to board the waiting heli-cab.
After a few more deep breaths she took the bullet train to London, Ontario, a helicab to Chatham, and a hoverbus where she got off at the end of an avenue lined with gnarled fruit trees, and walked a long way to a big old brick house with a veranda halfway around it.
Overhead, the whirring of rotor blades suddenly drowned out the hunters’ cries. He jerked his head up to see a helicab swooping down and thought petulantly: it wasn’t fair, using a helicab to hunt him from the air—it ought not to be allowed!
antedating 1943
N.Y. Times
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