Avro Rotodyne
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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.
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ta demorando pra fazer uma beleza dessa aki em cara ae sim em!!!
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dear santa....
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Updated Fairey Rotodyne from the 50's a great idea but nobody bought it , although many cities expressed interest.
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"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!!!
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@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.
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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.
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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
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@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
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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.
djcahill4 3 weeks ago
@djcahill4 Perhaps someone will include a rotodyne in the next release of the MS Flight game .. if there ever is one.
DPSflight 3 weeks ago
Superb - but why Air France ?
workrestandplay 4 months ago
@workrestandplay I already had an Air France texture so I just re-used the bitmap.
DPSflight 4 months ago
Where do I find this?
ApexAurajin 11 months ago
@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.
DPSflight 11 months ago