[RealDarko]

There are some mods requesting helicopters, but will not be easier to have an AutoGyro?? Thecnically is more a plane than a helicopter and we have all we need to recreate one of them.
In a Autogyro the "wings" are the rotor blades moved by the own wind, so we can create a plane with very good low speed handling and we will have a gyrocopter.
For the blades we can use the same way oleg used for that little props ( electricity generators?? ) on the TB3, Stuka, Ju52...
A couple of WW2 Autogyros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_330

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayaba_Ka-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellett_KD-1



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[F4U-1_Corsair]

A very Good idea!

I have some basic understanding of how these things work, and I see no reason this wouldn't work!

If needed I could make a frankenplane model in fact, based on the painting shown, but I think it would be more appropriate to have a new model, which is out of my league.

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

that plane is real weirdo!

[khirareg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cierva_C.30


Cierva C.30 operational history

Of the 66 non-RAF aircraft built in the UK by Avro, 37 appeared at least for a while on the UK register[1]. Some (maybe a dozen) were sold on abroad, but others were flown by wealthy enthusiasts and by flying clubs who anticipated autogyro training needs. By the end of the decade private flyers were moving back to the comforts and economies of fixed wing aircraft and more C.30s moved abroad, leaving the Autogyro Flying Club at Hanworth as the major UK user. 26 aircraft were directly exported by Avro. These went both to private owners and to foreign air forces who wish to investigate the autogyro's potential.

In 1934, one Spanish navy C.30 piloted by Cierva landed on the Spanish Seaplane tender Dedalo anchored in Valencia harbor and later made a takeoff.[5]
Autogyro C.30 landing over the Spanish seaplane tender D

[asheshouse]

--and there is another surviving Cierva C.30 on display in the Science Museum, London if I remember correctly. They were used for testing and calibrating the radar systems pre BoB.

The rotor on the Cierva could be connected to the engine for vertical takeoff. It was perhaps the first true helicopter?

From: http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/cierva_c-30.php

During 1933 the C.30 prototype, G-ACFI, was converted for jump-start trials with a modified rotor head, and in 1936 a perfected form of this was fitted to G-ACWF when it made the first genuine vertical take-off by an autogiro, by keeping the engine and rotor system engaged throughout the take-off sequence. This machine was, in effect, the prototype for the C.40, five of which were ordered for the R.A.F. as the Rota II to Specification 2/36. These were built by the British Aircraft Manufacturing Co., having side-by-side seats, wooden semi-monocoque fuselages and 175hp Salmson 9NG engines. Two of the original five Rota II's were diverted to civilian customers, replacements being built in 1938-39. The R.A.F. C.40's served with No.1448 Flight (later 529 Squadron). On the outbreak of World War 2 over a dozen civil C.30A's were impressed for military service; these and the surviving Rota I's were allocated singly to R.A.F. radar stations in the United Kingdom for calibration duties. The example illustrated is the former G-ACWP, rebuilt in 1962 by R.A.F. apprentices at Halton and now in possession of the Science Museum, London.

K.Munson "Helicopters And Other Rotorcraft Since 1907", 1968