GOODBYE PATROL SQUADRON 65!

[FLYBOYJ]

I actually know someone that dropped a wrench in a Intermediate Gearbox and mind you it has a screen cover and only about an inch wide. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

See how good of a fisherman they can become to get it out!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

No it was my aircraft so I replaced the gear box. I dont play around with those on helicopters.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

No it was my aircraft so I replaced the gear box. I dont play around with those on helicopters.

Yep - good call!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

You have to take care of it yourself most of the time anyhow. When I gave over my aircraft to maintenance I norally would find tools in places that they should not be and so forth. I actually called my aircraft "The Toolbox". To bad they would not let me paint that on the nose.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

 

[evangilder]

Hover...

Not yet anyway...

Groen Brothers has received $3 million from the federal government to study converting C-130 cargo planes into giant gyrodynes (gyrocopters with jet engines at the rotor tips). The company says it will be a cheap and easy way to supply the Army with heavy-lift VTOL capability...

GBA JOINS GEORGIA TECH TEAM IN JHL PROPOSAL FOR US ARMY

A "Best Value Team" led by Georgia Institute of Technology, a top five U.S. graduate engineering research university with the top public aerospace engineering program in the country, including a world renowned rotary wing technology program, developed and presented a proposal in July to the United States Army for the US Military's Joint Heavy Lift vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft Concept Design Analysis (CDA) competition. The team included GBA along with Shafer Corporation, one of this nation's most capable systems engineering and integration technology firms, and Dancila LLC., developer of important new piezoelectric, flow control, and "smart-material" technology.

The proposal based upon the "gyrodyne" concept long espoused by GBA and extensively researched by Georgia Tech was not, regrettably, awarded one of five contracts worth roughly $3 million for CDA development. However, in the debriefing by Army and NASA personnel following the decision, we were encouraged by the reception our proposal had received and by the potential for future participation in the project. The proposal called for using a C130 Hercules as a test vehicle, fitting it with a tip-jet powered rotor designed by the Team. GBA continues to promote the gyrodyne concept and is pleased to have had the support of Georgia Tech, Shafer Corporation and Dancila LLC. Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of the Hercules, and Rolls-Royce, manufacturer of the engines in the C130 had pledged support had the proposal been chosen.

http://www.groenbros.com/whatsnew/nest.htm

Now won't that be something!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I dont know if I would trust that!

 

[evangilder]

Me either.

 

[Gnomey]

May not be trustworthy but if they did it, it would be really cool and something I would definitely what to see. However I'm not sure it will happen

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Same here.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think the Fairey Rotodyne was pretty cool.........

www.vstol.org/wheel/ VSTOLWheel/FaireyRotodyne.htm

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I did an article on this one that appeared in Aviation Heritage Magazine in 1993, I had the only surviving maintenance manual, got a great price on E Bay...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

wow, do you still have it?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

wow, do you still have it?

No - sold it, I think I got 3 or 400.00 for it.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Wow that is a good looking plane there.

 

[evangilder]

Are ther any surviving examples of the airplane?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

XC-142A - it was like a baby C-130. It viabrated too much and basically shook itself apart. There were 4 or 5 built before the project was cancelled, NASA operated one into the late 70s.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Is that a little propelor behind the tail....cute.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i fail to see the baby C-130ness about it though.........

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

It sort of looks like one...