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KarlJ

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Joined: 19/05/2008
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Posted: 11:07am 19 Nov 2009

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http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/Edwards09/Edwards09.html

a mate sent me this, pretty good stuff here the old and the new.

mmmm
RAPTOR

Luck favours the well prepared

philb

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Joined: 05/07/2008
Location: United States
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Posted: 06:50pm 21 Nov 2009

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I'd like to borrow the prop off the YO-3 Quiet Star.

Great site!

philb

Greenbelt

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Joined: 11/01/2009
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Posted: 02:05am 23 Dec 2009

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KarlJ;

Lots of new aircraft being built in unlikely
places, Here is a link to a very promising design,
Kind of a (JETSON flavor) <Cartoon.
Get Me out of here
EDIT;

Here is a better Picture of this craft.and take a look at the pusher prop on this one.Edited by Greenbelt 2009-12-24

Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True?

KarlJ

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Posted: 10:21am 26 Dec 2009

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I've flown one, not dissimilar, certainly needed fwd speed to keep rotor turning but OK for the singular landing with inertia, very responsive too.

we call then gyrocopters, obviously this one is different or they wouldnt have signed that contract

Luck favours the well prepared

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