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Autogyro

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finsrin:
A most interesting post Jon. :)
Like to see what current tech autogyro would be like. 

Weaver:
Film of Japanese autogyros including shipboard ops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EFt7cLCRSY

The take-off run is pretty short.

Even if a shipboard autogyro did require a low-powered catapult to get airborne, the ability to land back aboard would still be a huge advantage over seaplanes.

Jeffry Fontaine:
Do not recall the name of the company but the German Navy had a small autogyro that was intended to be deployed on their submarines.  It would be used as a search platform while tethered to the submarine as it cruised on the surface.  A search platform with room for one observer/operator that would be winched back down to the submarine and stowed in a watertight container before the submarine submerged. 

I read about that in an old Popular Science or Popular Mechanics, or maybe the Mechanics Illustrated published during the WW2 that I had many years ago.  It was all quite interesting, interesting enough to remember all these years later :)

The Big Gimper:
This one Jeff?

Focke-Achgelis Fa 330



Note there are no pontoons so ....  :o

Jeffry Fontaine:
Thanks Carl.  Yes, that is the autogyro that was described in the article.   

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