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Fairey Rotodyne

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Fairey Rotodyne - "Farnborough Air Display" - 1959

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The Fairey Rotodyne - "A Loving Tribute"

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Fairey Rotodyne - "Farnborough Air Display" - 1958

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Fairey Rotodyne at 1958 Farnborough Airshow

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RC Fairey Rotodyne gyroplane Crash

The Fairey Rotodyne 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.