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Helicopters have been around for much longer than that, as early as 1906 apparently. The first mass produced helicopter was the Sikorsky R-4, introduced in 1943
Apparently the first passenger helicopter service was in 1950, so I was out by 20 years. It's a bit of a grey area when they switched from "weapon of war" to "flying taxi", but it would be somewhere around the 40s.
I still find it insane that the helicopter was invented only 20 years after the car.
Well DaVinci already toyed with the idea (which didn't work obviously), so the idea is much older. It's still impressive indeed how soon we got working helicopters