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All Rights Reserved American Helicopter Society Summer 2006 vertiflite 1947-1949 Gyrodyne: Fairey, Great Britain • Sixteen-meter-diameter driven rotor operating with a low collective pitch without reaching the autogyro mode • One pusher propeller on the right • 5.08-meter-span wing • Maiden flight on the Fairey airfield at White Waltham on December 7, 1947, at the hands of Squadron Leader Basil Arkell • Powered by a 520 hp (388 kW) 9-radial-cylinder Alvis Leonides engine • Maximum weight: 2180 kg • World speed record over 3 km on June 28, 1948, with a speed of 108 kt
All Rights Reserved American Helicopter Society Summer 2006 vertiflite 1949 CGA -2a: Gyrodyne, Gyrodyne Company of America USA • First compound helicopter to fly in the USA • Two coaxial two-bladed rotors driven by a 450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 piston engine • Two pusher propellers each driven by a 100 hp Continental piston engine, and providing yaw control
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