Convertible Helicopter, concept begun early 1938. A wooden mock-up was built and destroyed in WW IIÂ
Power:two Daimler-Benz DB 601 or 605 engine mounted on the wings. Later a single air-cooled BMW 132 K twin-radial engine with about 1000 hp (745 kW) coupled/linked with a central reduction gearbox was planned; it would have occupied most of the center of the fuselage.
Design Speed: 0-600 km/h
Wing Span: 10 m (32.8 ft)
Length: 8.90 m (29.2 ft)
Propeller: Two three-blade propellers with diameters of 4 m (13.1 ft)
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ====================================================== Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
Design begins during 1944, it called the Rochen ('ray', as in the aquatic animal). A wooden wind tunnel model was built and tested in the mid-1950s with a simulated propulsion system installed. Focke filed a patent for the design in September 1957.
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ====================================================== Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ====================================================== Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ====================================================== Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ====================================================== Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
A might have been...Platt and LePage proposed extensive modifications to the FA-224 design, before abandoning the project to pursue what would become the Platt-LePage PL-3/XR-1.
There was no designation in Dr. LePage's papers, once it became apparent that no deal with the German govt. was possible, they started the layout that would become the XR-1. (The PL-3 went through a number of changes as the design progressed into the Dorsey Bill competition)...One early PL-3 configuration can be seen in this image:
At some point there should be a thread for PL-LP I suppose.
Platt-LePage wrote:At some point there should be a thread for PL-LP I suppose.
 You bet there should! But who would be better qualified than you to handle it?
Your picture doesn't show on my computer (filtered by my company's firewall). It's always best to attach the pics, or better, do both (attached pic will be small, but at least it will always be visible).