The Fairey Ultra-light Helicopter was a small British military helicopter for reconnaissance and casualty evacuation, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company to be low cost and easily transportable. The project was a casualty of the UK defence economies of the later 1950s...
The Fairey Rotodyne (Y) was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military applications. A development of the earlier Gyrodyne which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight, and autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers. Although promising in concept and entirely successful in trials, the Rotodyne program (including the larger Rotodyne Z, seen in the cutaway views below) was eventually cancelled when a combination of politics and the lack of commercial orders doomed the project...
The work carried out by J.A.J Bennett on Gyrodyne design at Cierva pre-war, transferred across to the Fairey Gyrodyne. Still different from the final design, see photo.
The Fairey Rotodyne (Y) was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military applications. A development of the earlier Gyrodyne which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight, and autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers. Although promising in concept and entirely successful in trials, the Rotodyne program (including the larger Rotodyne Z, seen in the cutaway views below) was eventually cancelled when a combination of politics and the lack of commercial orders doomed the project...
Well, it goes without saying that we have all the helos on Stingray's site! Anyone can go and search the database. I only link the outside sites, usually...