Higgins EB-1

The Higgins EB-1 was an experimental American helicopter built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans, Louisiana. Enea Bossi, whose initials give the type its name, designed it at the Isaac Delgado Trade School, which became part of Higgins Industries in 1943, and Higgins pushed the project forward after its aircraft contracts were cancelled. It was a two-seat machine with a single four-bladed main rotor of 32 feet, a two-bladed tail rotor, fixed tricycle landing gear and a 180 horsepower Warner piston engine, and it weighed 1,951 pounds empty. Only one was built, and it flew. Higgins planned larger versions, including a four-place twin-engine helicopter and a 14-passenger airliner, but he could not interest commercial or military buyers, and work stopped.