Avro Rotodyne

[34122fernando]

ta demorando pra fazer uma beleza dessa aki em cara ae sim em!!!

[youngjisue2000]

dear santa....

[djcahill4]

Kaman was going to build a version of the Fairey ship for domestic commercial flying and also a model for the USMC. But Viet Nam orders swamped the company's production capacity/capability, so it was shelved and dropped. A real shame. They would have served the roof of the Pan Am building in midtown manhattan from JFK, LGA, Newark.

[DPSflight]

@djcahill4 Perhaps someone will include a rotodyne in the next release of the MS Flight game .. if there ever is one.

[usmctanks1]

Updated Fairey Rotodyne from the 50's a great idea but nobody bought it , although many cities expressed interest.

[Justwantahover]

"SLAGGING IT OFF"! YOU WOULD HAVE TO STOP THE ROTOR TO MAKE IT GO THAT FAST. SEE MY CHANNEL FOR A STOP-ROTOR TECHNOLOGY THAT'S BASICALLY A NORMAL CHOPPER (WITH WINGS). OH! ROTORS ARE ENCLOSED AND IT IS A FLYING CAR ( BUT NOT A ROAD ABLE AIRCRAFT)... BUT STILL, IT'S BASICALLY JUST A HELICOPTER!!!

[Justwantahover]

480 mph with the rotor windmilling? The Europcopter x3 only does about 260 mph and has 4,500 hp to do it and it would probably carry about eight people.

[dannyfivefifty]

Fantastic theory.I wish aircraft of this type would be put into the production mode upon testing for flight characteristics and useful load.Good Luck

[Justwantahover]

@dannyfivefifty The problem is that jumbo jets cost about 300 million each! I really doubt if any airport would cost that much (except Heath Row). So the extra cost of these things (if we had a lot of them) would be far more expensive than having airports.

[RunningSwimmingMan]

480...? come on now...? as an autogyro...? Do you know much drag you would create, just trying to break 200..? I don't even think it's possible, to break 200, it would probably rip itself apart... Now if you had wings, and could "feather" the rotor blades, that would be another thing... So obviously, this is only for CG / SciFi effect...

[kineticdeath]

@RunningSwimmingMan the original rotodyne from the 50's and 60's in cruise had already topped 190mph. With modern materials technology and aerodynamics i see no reason why an up engined and streamlined variant couldnt push it to near jetliner speeds. Maybe not match or exceed but certainly come close

[bestamerica]

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this helicopterplane is so coool,,,

maybe ussr russia did help air france

[strassj]

Why not try with turboprops with winglet? Then you can see different between it. Just suggest.

Nice video! I like it very much!

[BRITSIMdotCOM]

Great military applications as well...

[JBofBrisbane]

Why not BAe Turbodyne?

[oiseautempete]

Modern Fairey Rotodyne?

The Rotodyne was abandonned because the noise...

[strassj]

@oiseautempete Yes, you right, I wish they are not because they are planning to install the silence mode on it so it can reduce from 100 dB to 96 dB... Which is good start but sad you are right, fund was cut and turn down. Because of too much nosie and concern.

[tigertonten]

Excellent, but why Avro? The original Rotodyne was built by Fairey, and the aviation interests of Fairey were eventually merged with Westland, who became Agusta Westland, so would it not be more appropriate to label it as the Westland, or Agusta Westland Rotodyne? Just a thought, as Avro ceased to exist as an independent company a long time ago.

The original Fairey Rotodydne concept was brilliant. It was noisy, but development could have solved that, I'm sure.

[3593893]

Very nice work

[workrestandplay]

Superb - but why Air France ?

[DPSflight]

@workrestandplay I already had an Air France texture so I just re-used the bitmap.

[MrAgusto331]

this plane can takeoff anywhere!!even at the top of the mountain!!very smart!!

[1fsnl1]

@MrAgusto331

Then you will need a flat topped mountain

[Kitfugl]

NICE JOB!!

[Peorhum]

it would likely be very much safer then the Osprey due to simpler mechanical systems.

[Plane5O]

Can I Get one For Flight Simulator? Because it is a Super concept and i like the normal rotodyne to

[bangbuddy]

U better keep the blades or the Turbos, why waste them putting it together. the design is flawed , very risky when midair. the blades may just snap on the body.

[CovertAgenda]

heya dpsherry.... good thought but imagine the mass flow needed from the bleed to counteract that turbofan spinnin even at idle (single engine ops)..... not saying it wouldnt work... but with the turbofans so far out on the winglet and the related moment of inertia.... maybe not too much of a problem with some forward movement making the tail more effective... but 'at the hover' i think she would spin like a top. remember the harrier is a 1 engine with counterrotating shafts to minimise torque

[CovertAgenda]

really guys...think about it.... 2 turnbofans....still generating thrust at idle.....asymmetric thrust (?).... single engine out..... them little tailfeathers wouldnt be enough..... spinnin round.

thats why the original used turboprop setup, 0 AoA 0 torque, even use 'reverse pitch' for single eng op yaw axis control. the littleun diverted jet efflux.

[dpsherry]

@CovertAgenda Bleed nozzles off the main jets as per Harrier perhaps.....? 

[piersbowlan]

It was noisy but in the 50's noise wasn't the issue like it is today. BesIdes, by the time it was scrapped some quieter tip nozzles had been developed. The project was killed by politics, ignorance and shortsightedness. Westlands had just bought heavily into Sikorski technology (S51 Dragonfly) and the government (Duncan Sandys the aviation minister) felt there wasn't room for two UK companies (Westerland and Fairy) producing Helicopters.

[peepeevagi]

A modern day Rotodyne? LOL. The only problem with it is that it'd be a fuel hog.

[ApexAurajin]

Where do I find this?

[DPSflight]

@ApexAurajin I gave the gmax file to someone a couple of years ago to complete it as an add-on for the FS9 game - it required a panel/gauges. Can't remember who, and as I've had an HDD fail recently I don't think I'll be able to find out.

[headells]

Sadly, the economics would not work for it to be feasible to airlines due to the amount of fuel which would be used.

[Chilternflyer]

Yep, sadly the British governments over the years have made some pretty bad decisions when it comes to industry and technology.

Well done that's a nice piece of work Now all we need is some bight spark to make a real flying model of it!

[oiseautempete]

Eurocopter work on a near project, the X3 helicopter (a realy hélicopter not a autogyro like the Fairey rotodyne), but the rotodyne was a billiant conceptt but abandonned in 1959 on UK governement decision to switch to STOL aircraft for Stansted London airport

[idjumdjum]

Why would anyone want to slag off a brilliant concept ? Sadly the British who developed this idea, abandoned it in the 1950's.

Imagine city to city air transport direct to the city centre! Richard Branson should get on it.

Good informative graphic to.

[DPSflight]

@idjumdjum Brilliant.....but noisy.

[kineticdeath]

@DPSflight but noisier than 4 engine turbojet terrors that were if not already in service, soon would be? I reckon the British aero designers were onto a winner, and though the original was indeed noisy, designs were being made to reduce noise to within acceptable limits. Even if ultimately beaten out on long haul flights the rotodyne would have been great on shorter domestic flights, competing against turboprops that need proper runways - yet flying just as fast