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Airspeed Hardrada - Airborne Autogyro

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Buzzbomb:
How things can change in the space of an hour.
While ratting around for parts for my first thought bubble I found a kit that just might do the trick for this GB as it a triggered a "wait a minute...." moment.

I have read a bit around the Hafner Rotachute concept Linky  for delivering Airborne Troops. Nice concept.
How about if they upscaled to make it a full on Autogyro using the proven Horsa glider as the basis to deliver more troops.
So some quick tape cobbling together with a left over 1/48 rotor head


This concept might deliver a more controlled landing maybe

Still very early days and the path betwixt concept and production is oft strewn with wrecks and dashed plans.

GTX_Admin:
Liking this idea

jcf:
As long as it's a towed free-wheeling glider you're golden, try to power that rotor
and you'll have the same ground resonance issues as every other period attempt
at a "big" autogyro.
 ;D

Robomog:
Oooh this is a bit left field, likeing it already  :smiley:

Mog
>^-.-^<

Buzzbomb:
Quick status update, whilst undertaking round 1 PSR
It looks depressingly similar to the Rotodyne a bit now.


Italeri kit is pretty simple and with a bit of TLC appears that it would turn into a rather nice Horsa, which BTW is a rather large aircraft. I have a Hamilcar 1/72 Glider on the shelf and the Horsa is not that much smaller in span.

Some old school butt joins and clearly more care needed by me to minimize the PSR effort would have been nice. It also needs a quite substantial bit of weight to sit on the nose gear. I am short at the moment it appears and working on some creative weight adding method. Probably use the Drill hole, add weight/glue, plug hole by creating an instant inspection hatch method.

Went for the stub wing so as to not change the undercarriage layout, plus still have the towing points at the wing leading edge. Keeping as much Horsa in there as possible to make the conversion a logical stepping stone.
This is when my lack of Aerospace engineer vs Whiffer builder logic kicks in. The Gyro pilot would need to keep very vigilant to not let the rotor disk drop down below the tow rope or .....  well not the desired mission profile I would think.

JCF, yes fully Gyro, still using the towed glider model operationally.

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