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Fairey Rotodyne

David Gibbings
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british compound helicopter
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fairey aviation company
Hampshire Libraries Special Collections Award 2010
heliports
RAF 100
rotodyne project
vertical take-off

Product details

  • ISBN 9780752449166
  • Weight: 420g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 250mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 2009
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The Fairey Rotodyne was a large British compound helicopter designed and built by the Fairey Aviation Company and intended for commercial and military applications. It was considered to be one of the iconic aviation projects of the 1950s/60s and a bright future was planned for the aircraft. Widely accepted to be a revolutionary design, it was economically viable, fast and capable of vertical take-off and landing from city centre heliports. However, despite the proven feasibility of this bold concept, the Rotodyne project was terminated in 1962 due to escalating development costs and unresolved technical issues. This book seeks to fill a gap in aviation literature on the history of the Rotodyne, an aircraft ahead of its time. Winner of Hampshire Libraries Special Collections Award 2010.
About David Gibbings
David Gibbings is a retired RAF engineer/navigator and flight test engineer for helicopters and aircraft. He worked on the Rotodyne with Fairey and subsequently was a Flight Test Engineer with Westland. Awarded the Kelly Johnson award for outstanding achievement in his field by the Society of Flight Test Engineers, he was the first recipient of the award outside the US. David Lives in Somerset and continues to work as an aviation artist, flight test consultant and flight historian.

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