-
before the
programme was terminated.
Although the
Helicogyre did not use
tipjets,
being instead powered by
piston engines positioned at the ends of the...
-
Pembroke Percival P.66
President Percival P.74 8-seat
experimental gas turbine/
tipjet powered helicopter P.87
fixed wing DC-3 replacement, not
built Hunting Aircraft...
- The
Hiller YH-32
Hornet (company
designation HJ-1) was an
American ultralight helicopter built by
Hiller Aircraft in the
early 1950s. It was a
small and...
- concept,
showing its free-spinning rotor,
which is ****ed with
integral tipjets, fed with byp**** air from two
Williams gas-turbine
propulsion engines....
-
later evolved into the much
larger twin-engined
Fairey Rotodyne, that used
tipjets to
power the
rotor on take-off and
landing but
which then used two Napier...
-
compensation for the
torque reaction causing yaw,
except in the case of
tipjet drive. One
rotor rotorcraft are
typically called monocopters. Two rotors...
- (valued at $24-28 million)." Due to
issues with
noise generated by the
tipjets, the
program was
terminated by
DARPA in 2008. In 2012,
Groen Brothers Aviation...
- The
Fairey Rotodyne was a 1950s
British compound gyroplane designed and
built by
Fairey Aviation and
intended for
commercial and
military uses. A development...
- The
American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep (known as the XA-8 by its manufacturer) was an
experimental tip jet
helicopter developed in 1951 by the American...
- 2007.
During World War II Focke-Wulf
proposed the Triebflügel, in
which a
tipjet-driven
rotor wing is
located around the
fuselage waist. The
proposed mode...
