Author Topic: Inspiration (Read 6344 times)

Artoor_K · « **on:** December 02, 2020, 02:13:40 AM »

Any cool choppers or autogyros are welcomed here :)

Artoor_K · « **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2020, 02:20:07 AM »

Twin Harr-Cobra is pretty cool :)

Fast compound Apache as a incarnation of Cheyenne is really exotic :)

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #2 on:** December 02, 2020, 02:37:39 AM »

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2020, 02:47:56 AM »

The Big Gimper · « **Reply #4 on:** December 02, 2020, 09:14:51 PM »

https://theaviationist.com/2020/12/02/first-hh-139b-helicopter-delivered-to-the-italian-air-force/

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2020, 01:02:07 AM »

Dr. YoKai · « **Reply #6 on:** December 03, 2020, 01:56:13 AM »

Ahhh. those are all modern...

Excellent article on the PKZ here: https://oldmachinepress.com/2012/09/24/petroczy-karman-zurovec-pkz-2-helicopter/

Artoor_K · « **Reply #7 on:** December 03, 2020, 02:30:49 AM »

jcf · « **Reply #8 on:** December 03, 2020, 06:38:12 AM »

Raoul Hafner design, late '30s.

Story · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2020, 07:38:36 AM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_WA-116_Agile

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-04401-james-bonds-autogyro--138506

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFozWDLne7c

Story · « **Reply #10 on:** December 04, 2020, 07:41:33 AM »

H.I. Sutton does nice work

When the French submarine Surcouf entered service in 1934 it was the first in the world with an aircraft capability designed-in. It’s compact MB.411 floatplane, which folded to fit inside the integral hangar, was a work of art. But French aviation designer René Dorand had an even more ingenious solution to deploying aircraft from submarines: a helicopter!
http://www.hisutton.com/G20_Gyroplane.html

See also http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6262.msg106612#msg106612

LemonJello · « **Reply #11 on:** December 06, 2020, 04:50:36 AM »

Do Tiltotors count?

Frank3k · « **Reply #12 on:** December 06, 2020, 07:12:45 AM »

Weir W.2 autogyro:

jcf · « **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2020, 09:00:18 AM »

More Weir.

Frank3k · « **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2020, 11:01:05 AM »

William Douglas Weir More on the W.2

Frank3k · « **Reply #15 on:** December 06, 2020, 11:23:33 AM »

From the Aug. 1934 Popular Science, a double gyroplane

From the Feb. 1939 Popular Science, Windmill plane

kitnut617 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 08, 2020, 03:13:10 AM »

Some inspiration ---- still in progress but I think to far into the build to join the GB

jcf · « **Reply #17 on:** December 08, 2020, 11:23:07 AM »

Buhl and Comper

jcf · « **Reply #18 on:** December 08, 2020, 11:30:16 AM »

Pitcairn 'helicopter-autogiro' concepts from the '60s.

Pitcairn started using the term for compound helicopters in the mid-'30s,
at the same time Cierva-Weir started using the term 'gyrodyne' for the
same kind of machine. Post-war the work at Cierva-Weir was taken up
at Fairey.

jcf · « **Reply #19 on:** December 08, 2020, 11:35:18 AM »

Wallis WA-120, Little Nellie's faster brother.

Artoor_K · « **Reply #20 on:** December 08, 2020, 07:21:45 PM »

Kiowa AVX

Frank3k · « **Reply #21 on:** December 10, 2020, 08:03:05 AM »

This PDF has a collection of old school - failed - wingless aircraft designs and others that haven't really been successful on aircraft, like the cyclowing. Some were intensely stupid, and were probably a grift on the naive and dumb.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #22 on:** January 05, 2021, 01:17:28 AM »

Autogyro tanks:

More info

Frank3k · « **Reply #23 on:** January 05, 2021, 04:23:54 AM »

That reminds me of the land, air and sea vehicle from The Three Stooges in Orbit

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #24 on:** January 06, 2021, 01:53:29 AM »

Dare I suggest:

It has been done before.

An earlier iteration also had tracks:

perttime · « **Reply #25 on:** January 06, 2021, 02:40:55 PM »

The Cierva C.30 (and licence built variants) has always looked right to me. I suppose a similar arrangement could be built on many fixed wing fuselages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cierva_C.30