|
The Fairey Jet Gyrodyne was a British experimental gyrodyne aircraft, a form of compound helicopter related to autogyros, built by Fairey Aviation. The Gyrodyne Company of America was founded by Peter J. Papadakos in [1946], using the assests he bought from the bankrupt Bendix Helicopter Company that was developing a one-man synchronized co-axial rotor helicopter. ...
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ...
The Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Heyes (Middlesex) and Heaton Chapel/Ringway in Greater Manchester. ...
The Maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord. ...
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ...
The Gyrodyne Company of America was founded by Peter J. Papadakos in [1946], using the assests he bought from the bankrupt Bendix Helicopter Company that was developing a one-man synchronized co-axial rotor helicopter. ...
A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ...
Modern Autogyro, ELA-07, Casarrubios del Monte Airfield, Spain, 2004. ...
The Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Heyes (Middlesex) and Heaton Chapel/Ringway in Greater Manchester. ...
The Jet Gyrodyne was a conversion of the second prototype Fairey Gyrodyne aircraft registered G-AJJP, building on the lessons learnt from that design.
The appearance of the Jet Gyrodyne is part way between a small aeroplane and a helicopter. A helicopter type cabin is the front of the aircraft. The engine, an Alvis Leonides 9 cylinder radial, is in the middle of the fuselage. Above the engine is a two bladed rotor. There is a simple tailplane with no tail rotor as might be expected on a helicopter. Two short wings carry rear facing wingtip propellors and also the main wheels of the tricyle undercarriage. The Alvis Leonides and Leonides Major were British piston aero-engines that found most use in helicopters The Leonides was developed at the start of the Second World War. ...
A rotor is the rotating part of a helicopter which generates lift, either vertically in the case of a main rotor, or horizontally in the case of a tail rotor. ...
In aviation, the undercarriage or landing gear is the structure (usually wheels) that supports an aircraft and allows it to move across the surface of the Earth when it is not flying. ...
The engine performs two functions; the first is to power, through gearboxes, the two wingtip propellors, the second is to drive two superchargers (taken from Rolls-Royce Merlin engines) whose output goes up through the rotor blades and exhausts through jets at the tips of the rotors. At the jets the compressed air is mixed with fuel and burnt to give more power. As this means of powering the rotor gave no reaction torque, a separate tail rotor was not needed. The rotor jets could be used to power the rotor for vertical takeoff and landing and for the rest of the time, the rotor would autorotate like an autogyro giving lift but not needing power while the forward drive came from the wingtip propellors. A supercharger (also known as a blower) is an air compressor used to force more air (and hence more oxygen) into the combustion chamber(s) of an internal combustion engine than can be achieved at ambient atmospheric pressure. ...
The Merlin was a 12 cylinder, 60° V, 27 litre, liquid cooled piston aircraft engine built during World War II by Rolls-Royce and under licence in the United States by Packard. ...
The Jet Gyrodyne (serial XD759 later XJ389) on loan from the RAF Museum collection is preserved at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation. An Avro Lancaster in the main hangar of the RAF Museum London The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular. ...
The Museum of Berkshire Aviation is a small aviation museum located in Woodley, a suburb of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. ...
Specification
Data from British Aircraft Director[1] General characteristics - Length: 25 ft (7.6 m)
- Rotor diameter: 51 ft 9 in (15.8 m)
- Height: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
- Disc area: ft² (m²)
- Empty weight: 3,600 lb (1,600 kg)
- Loaded weight: 4,800 lb (2,200 kg)
- Powerplant:
- 2× wingtip compressed air/fuel burning, lbf (kN) each
- 1× Alvis Leonides 9-cylinder radial engine, hp (kW)
- Propellers: 3-bladed propeller, 2 per engine
Performance The Alvis Leonides and Leonides Major were British piston aero-engines that found most use in helicopters The Leonides was developed at the start of the Second World War. ...
The radial engine is an internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders point outward from a central crankshaft like the spokes on a wheel. ...
VNO of an aircraft is the V speed which refers to the velocity of normal operation. ...
The maximal total range is the distance an aircraft can fly between takeoff and landing as limited by its fuel capacity. ...
References For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ...
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
External links |
Feeds |
Contact