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First helicopter on a vintage stand-up foil board - 2003
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First helicopter on a vintage stand-up foil board
- Discipline
Freestyle Foiling 
Vintage Standup Foiling- Class
- Open / Trick
- Measured Result
- First helicopter trick - (First only)
- Date
- 2003-01-01 (year precision)
- Location
- United States, United States
- First Achieved By
- Bobby Taylor
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
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How This Epic Thing Went Down
Tony Klarich's stand-up foil history says Bobby Taylor worked for months to land the first helicopter on the air board, with crashes described as brutal when the foil caught sideways. The same page captions Rush Randle and Bobby Taylor foilboarding in 2003, placing the helicopter milestone in that early stand-up foilboard period.
Rules of the Beast
First documented successful helicopter trick on an early stand-up hydrofoil / air board ridden behind a boat.
How This Got the Nod
The source explicitly credits Bobby Taylor with the first helicopter on the air board. Year-level timing is supported by the nearby 2003 foilboarding caption; exact day and location were not located.