Floyd Carlson was born in 1917 and died on 9th April 1984. He was a self taught helicopter pilot and the 3rd person in the U.S. granted helicopter rating by the C.A.A. In 1944 he made the first indoor flight in the USA , the second in the world. He was chief pilot and director of flight operations at Bell Helicopter until 1971, when he became special projects engineer.
