And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It was billed as air taxi. Also able to use short fields to evacuate civilians during emergency. A photo from the mid-1960s showed it taking off from a dock in NYC.
As it says on the tin, it's the Fairey Rotodyne, only one was ever built in the '50s. It took off and landed vertically like a helicopter but once it reached sufficient airspeed the rotor was unpowered and it flew as an autogyro with both the wing and rotor providing lift. It had tip jets, bleed air from the engine compressors was sent through the blades and mixed with fuel in a small jet engine mounted in the tip of each blade. The noise of the tip jets and British politics eventually killed the project. Al_in_Ottawa
It seems to have worked, though.
ReplyDeleteIt was billed as air taxi. Also able to use short fields to evacuate civilians during emergency. A photo from the mid-1960s showed it taking off from a dock in NYC.
ReplyDeleteI suspect this was to get the Port Authority to dedicate landing fields. I don't know how successful that effort.
Deletewhat dickery be this...
ReplyDeleteAs it says on the tin, it's the Fairey Rotodyne, only one was ever built in the '50s. It took off and landed vertically like a helicopter but once it reached sufficient airspeed the rotor was unpowered and it flew as an autogyro with both the wing and rotor providing lift. It had tip jets, bleed air from the engine compressors was sent through the blades and mixed with fuel in a small jet engine mounted in the tip of each blade. The noise of the tip jets and British politics eventually killed the project.
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