Aer Lualdi

Aer Lualdi & C. Spa are a manufacturer Italian of helicopters founded with Rome in 1953 and missing in 1964.

Carlo Leopoldo Lualdi , industrialist of the the Friuli ( Lima Spa ), manufactured surgical instruments with Anduins, in the valley of Arzino. Graduate of the Giovanni School of Udine, holder of a Swiss license of mechanical engineer obtained in , it one was also impassioned of aviation. At the 20 years age it had built a single-seater airplane of wood and fabric which had flown with an engine of motor bike. Golds with beginning of the year 50 the press often showed images of helicopters carrying help to the casualties, in particular during the Guerre of Korea. He thought that the helicopter was a means adapted to develop its activities and undertook as an autodidact the realization of an apparatus on vertical takeoff. A prototype, simple metal structure with Continental engine actuating a two-bladed rotor ordered by the system Hiller Rotor-Matic, carried out its first tests in September 1953, from where its designation, ES 53 for Elicottero Sperimentale 53 .

Carlo Lualdi then planned to produce an apparatus cheap and simple to control being able to be produced in series. Associated to engineers Corbellini and Bertuzzi, Carlo Lualdi thus founded in 1956 Aer Lualdi & C. SpA . Aer Lualdi bought a license of production of the system Rotor-Matic and became representing of the manufacturer Hiller in Italy. In 1956 it exposed to the Exhibition of Milan the `flying chair' Hiller and the prototype L.55, which was to accomplish its first flight only in April 1957 (From where the reference to a L.57 in certain works). Four-seater the Aer Lualdi L.59 was to be produced in series by Aermacchi, but the Italian Army renonça with its order, which involved the dissolution of Aer Lualdi in 1964.

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