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"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful."
- Philip K. Dick

Helicops  
  Small, private flyers for business commuting.  

Below them the giant city contracted as the great ship rode higher. The tiny private helicops were darting about below them like streams of nigh invisible individuals, creeping black lines among the buildings of the city.
From The Black Star Passes, by John W. Campbell.
Published by Amazing Stories in 1930
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Compare helicops to the copter harness from Robert Heinlein's wonderful "juvenile" novel The Star Beast.

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