1940 ? 2010: Brief history of hybrid helicopters around ... - Eurocopter
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1940 ? 2010: Brief history of hybrid helicopters around ... - Eurocopter
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All Rights Reserved American Helicopter Society Summer 2006 vertiflite<br />
1947-1949 Gyrodyne: Fairey, Great Britain<br />
• Sixteen-meter-diameter driven rotor operating with a low collective pitch without<br />
reaching the autogyro mode<br />
• One pusher propeller on the right<br />
• 5.08-meter-span wing<br />
• Maiden flight on the Fairey airfield at White Waltham on December 7, 1947, at<br />
the hands <strong>of</strong> Squadron Leader Basil Arkell<br />
• Powered by a 520 hp (388 kW) 9-radial-cylinder Alvis Leonides engine<br />
• Maximum weight: 2180 kg<br />
• World speed record over 3 km on June 28, 1948, with a speed <strong>of</strong> 108 kt
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