The Fairey Rotodyne was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military uses.[2] A development of the earlier Gyrodyne, which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight and autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers.
One prototype was built. Although the Rotodyne was promising in concept and successful in trials, the programme was eventually cancelled. The termination has been attributed to the type failing to attract any commercial orders; this was in part due to concerns over the high levels of rotor tip jet noise generated in flight. Politics had also played a role in the lack of orders (the project was government funded) which ultimately doomed the project.
Not totally my design. I have taken some parts from
SimpleFlow's "Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey"
Controls
AG1: Start horizontal props.
Instructions:
50% while vertical take off.
Specifications
Spotlights
- ThePrototype 5.1 years ago
- goxictamer88 5.1 years ago
- Typhoon03 5.1 years ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor ''V-44'' Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor
- Successors 1 airplane(s)
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 56.7ft (17.3m)
- Length 58.3ft (17.8m)
- Height 18.0ft (5.5m)
- Empty Weight 4,275lbs (1,939kg)
- Loaded Weight 22,000lbs (9,979kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.612
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.181
- Wing Loading 35.2lbs/ft2 (171.7kg/m2)
- Wing Area 625.7ft2 (58.1m2)
- Drag Points 14305
Parts
- Number of Parts 138
- Control Surfaces 6
- Performance Cost 683
Just made one myself! This is cool
Thanks for making this I love the Rotodyne!
@SimpleFlow thank you very much for considering. i will make sure to give proper credits. do u have discord?
@T7real Dont worry about it, you can keep it but
for the future, make sure to make your posts successors, or at least give some credit in the description.
@SimpleFlow About the auto credit, all this 3 planes should have been your plane's successor. I take complete responsibility of it. It wasnt done intentionally. I deeply apologise for it. If you want to take this planes down, i am completely fine.
@SimpleFlow I have copied some aspects of your build. But much changes and modifications have been made. Talking about the credit. I think credit was given in all the builds.
@SimpleFlow Damn lol I was gonna hype on this build but seeing that it's copied I turned full Meh mode
Also tag a moderator to get everything done
And again you copied my Plane.
You didn't even give any credit and it is not a successor.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/j8FDpt/Bell-Boeing-V-22-Osprey
Yes!!! Someone finally made this.
@TrislandianAlliance ok sorry bro
@ssenmodnar Oh You Surely Doesn't Want To Mess With Me Because Trust Me, Im A Mean Guy If I Had Enough...
@TrislandianAlliance no u
@ssenmodnar @asteroidbook345 I Watched Him And Pay Every Single Attention To Small Detail Even In The Plane Design If You See Throughly
@TrislandianAlliance no u
The Rotodyne Y Is The Experimental And The Rotodyne Z Is "...A Larger, More Capable Rotodyne..."
Mustard ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I do to@T7real
@TOMJeb117 yes
Do you watch Mustard?