One of these Rotodyne built with new smaller engines (yet more powerful and reliable), components made of composites would be feasible today. I am sure the sound decibels could be lowered within an acceptable range. The gyro copter idea seems better than the Osprey's plagued twin rotors that causes more often a dangerous Vortex ring state.
Naw, just knowledge and skill. When they went to school, they learned things pertaining to their chosen trade, not time wasting touchy feely garbage. In the 70's, 95% of my university education was trade specific. In 2012-15 I did Systems Sngineering and around 55% was trade specific. Hehehe some of the crazy credits I got were "Bad Women in Society" , "Small Cities in History" , "Witches and Witch Hunts", " People and Their Pets: The Psychology of Companion Animals". Give someone a machine with a carburetor now-a-days and they'll spend a hour or two trying to find the port to plug in their laptop/scan tool
@@GoofieNewfie69I've got a set of textbooks for mechanical engineering printed in the 1930s. The most comprehensive collection of mechanical knowledge I've ever seen, a smart guy could build anything with the stuff in those textbooks.
It’s not easy to build a quiet helicopter in the first place, but to build one with afterburners on the rotor tips-for use in cities!-was truly a lost cause from the start.
Bristol Olympus should still be producing engines too, it's an absolute national disgrace how our industry was destroyed yet crooked banks and businesses bailed out, just disgusting
@@sarahmanalapan8443 It will never be popular - IOW economically viable - because of the time factor. Airline profits depend on the "cheap seats", so turnover time is essential, and airships cannot deliver on that.
I saw her at Farnborough and was very impressed. The way that officialdom was not behind a larger version when Canada wanted it and the way it was cut up and data 'dispersed' reminds meof many innovative British products. Sadly, I saw a scrap lorry, by chance coming past my old school at Rickmansworth loaded with very recognisable chunks of Rotodyne.
This machine was approved by the U.S. Army and Japan which are very strict , the Noise thing was Bullshit! Every Country should display and capatalize on there key engineering!
I was thinking similarly. It would seem the English came up with this idea, and a lot of other 'ideas' first but just didn't have the money available to develop it. Ahead of its time; arguably too far ahead. Like the B-58 Hustler, the technology wasn't available yet to make it successful.
The Osprey is a Tilt-Rotor craft- using the same engines and propellers for both vertical and horizontal flight. The Rotordyne had two separate rotor systems essentially powered by the same engines. It was a Technological dead end- kind of like Autogyros in general. It's too bad- it's a cool looking design that had a lot of Potential...
@@Dbusdriver71 Pan Am briefly tried using a Commercial version of the Boeing Chinook helicopter to ferry passengers to and from Downtown NYC to LaGuardia and other Metro Airports- but they ran into the same noise pollution issue as the Rotordyne...
Although definitely very impressive looking and innovative for its age, that aircraft had to be a maintenance nightmare for its engine and hydraulics crews.
Imagine what could have been with 60 years of evolutionary development on that ? What a shame . How many incredible things would we have if bureaucrats weren't so short sighted.
Did they really only have that one option for the behemoth rotors? That being the end mounted propulsion system? Wouldn’t a typical turbo shaft engine that could produce the same thrust necessary as the tip mounted propulsion systems have worked? Then they could have just disengaged the main rotor from the shaft when autorotation was applicable? Unless such an engine concept was not available at the time? Any way, just a thought
With that setup, the machine would also need a tail rotor to counter the reverse torque on the fuselage. The whole beauty of the tip jets was no tail rotor was needed.
Now that there are Helipads on top of buildings, it might be time to revisit something like this especially in the US where people still live in suburbs and work downtown. I’m hopeful the noise could be mitigated although I live near a military base and helicopters still cause conversation to stop until they are gone!
Ivan put it on the Chopper. But Demetriy it's to much of load for the helicopter. I've got this cousin in aerodynamics department. He make us bus that Flys like plane and is helicopter. Your a mad man Demetriy
It was a victim of the Airline "consolidation" of socialist England and the fear it would make air travel accessible for working folk. The aristocracy didn't want Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny to be able to commute with them and soil their experience.
These Could Lift 18,000+ lb 💪 And Held The World Speed Record for Rotor Wing Air-Craft for a Few Decades 😲 Had Multiple Back-Up Safety Redundancy ✔ No Tail-Rotor ✔ Even If It Had Both Engine's Failure 😨 It Would Glide to The Ground, Safely ✔ The Huey 10 Years Later could Lift 4,500 lb Bacon-Foil Protection Against Bullets for Crew in Vietnam 😨 Wha...?
This would have been good business for airports. People could board the Rotodyne at interurban helipads, fly to the main airport, then transfer to their airline flight. Then, the airport could sell fuel and ramp charges to the Rotodyne commuter company. The Rotodyne was perfect for this. It was not fast enough for long-range flight.
@@rescue270 Airports would be reduced by 90% to mainly international flights, domestic flights up to 500km away could have been set up anywhere by anyone. Not good business for the airport monopolists. The rich kill innovation with a commitment few comprehend.
Two excellent examples of the downfall of the UK aircraft industry... the brits developed planes that were so seriously flawed that no one wanted to buy them,
One of these Rotodyne built with new smaller engines (yet more powerful and reliable), components made of composites would be feasible today. I am sure the sound decibels could be lowered within an acceptable range. The gyro copter idea seems better than the Osprey's plagued twin rotors that causes more often a dangerous Vortex ring state.
Agreed. These in a modernized version would be better than the Osprey.
Using modern electronic methods to lower the decibels would probably help alot.
It's amazing how they did this without CAD/CAM
Naw, just knowledge and skill. When they went to school, they learned things pertaining to their chosen trade, not time wasting touchy feely garbage. In the 70's, 95% of my university education was trade specific. In 2012-15 I did Systems Sngineering and around 55% was trade specific. Hehehe some of the crazy credits I got were "Bad Women in Society" , "Small Cities in History" , "Witches and Witch Hunts", " People and Their Pets: The Psychology of Companion Animals". Give someone a machine with a carburetor now-a-days and they'll spend a hour or two trying to find the port to plug in their laptop/scan tool
Slide rule's and brains back then
@@GoofieNewfie69I've got a set of textbooks for mechanical engineering printed in the 1930s. The most comprehensive collection of mechanical knowledge I've ever seen, a smart guy could build anything with the stuff in those textbooks.
Remember that the SR-71 was designed with a slide rule.
It would be interesting to see if modern design tools could solve some of the problems that kept this from succeeding, like excessive noise.
I really wish they'd keep working on this. Such great potential.
Thx for the video!
"And we'll add afterburners!"
"Afterburning turboprop? I like it!"
"No, we'll put them on the rotar"
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It’s not easy to build a quiet helicopter in the first place, but to build one with afterburners on the rotor tips-for use in cities!-was truly a lost cause from the start.
My Grandfather worked on this aircraft, always pleased when more people get to see it.
Bristol Olympus should still be producing engines too, it's an absolute national disgrace how our industry was destroyed yet crooked banks and businesses bailed out, just disgusting
Britain's aircraft industry was doomed after the country's defeat in WW2,
Would genuinely love to see an aircraft manufacturer out there that’s brave enough to make this. Absolutely amazing and so far ahead of its time.
Hey! You guys put out a decent vid! 😮
I'm still waiting for the rigid airship industry to "revolutionize" passenger air transport.
Aaaany day now...
Britain's aircraft industry crashed and burned....
Like anything else money and time, currently the lacking factor money.
@@sarahmanalapan8443 It will never be popular - IOW economically viable - because of the time factor. Airline profits depend on the "cheap seats", so turnover time is essential, and airships cannot deliver on that.
I had the good fortune to fly on an airship industries one in the late 80’s….. absolutely awesome unlike any other form of flight I’ve tried.
I recently received the 1/72 model kit of this. I'm looking forward to building it.
That will be a fun build.
“I made a model…”
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Is that the Arifix or the Revell one?
I've offered the Arifix one to my father last year. Such an amazing aircraft to display.
I saw her at Farnborough and was very impressed. The way that officialdom was not behind a larger version when Canada wanted it and the way it was cut up and data 'dispersed' reminds meof many innovative British products. Sadly, I saw a scrap lorry, by chance coming past my old school at Rickmansworth loaded with very recognisable chunks of Rotodyne.
Bring back the rotodyne
you sabotaged it so they use your ch47?
could this project have succumbed to the supressive anglo-american "close relationship"
concorde, comet, chlorinated chicken
Britain's aircraft industry was doomed after the country's defeat in WW2
This machine was approved by the U.S. Army and Japan which are very strict , the Noise thing was Bullshit! Every Country should display and capatalize on there key engineering!
That is completely false, the Rotodyne had no serious buyers. Unacceptable Noise levels was never resolved..
That looks like a Early version of The v22 osprey
100%
Exactly what I was thinking.
I was thinking similarly. It would seem the English came up with this idea, and a lot of other 'ideas' first but just didn't have the money available to develop it. Ahead of its time; arguably too far ahead. Like the B-58 Hustler, the technology wasn't available yet to make it successful.
The Osprey is a Tilt-Rotor craft- using the same engines and propellers for both vertical and horizontal flight. The Rotordyne had two separate rotor systems essentially powered by the same engines.
It was a Technological dead end- kind of like Autogyros in general.
It's too bad- it's a cool looking design that had a lot of Potential...
@@Dbusdriver71 Pan Am briefly tried using a Commercial version of the Boeing Chinook helicopter to ferry passengers to and from Downtown NYC to LaGuardia and other Metro Airports- but they ran into the same noise pollution issue as the Rotordyne...
You would think that it could be built / tested now with current technology and materials.
ah.. NO.
Noise is an indicator of inefficiency.
Before it's final cancelation, they had refined the design and had much reduced the noise.
Tell that to the Super-Screech.
@@philalcoceli6328 That is entirely false rumor... the noise problem of tip jets has never been solved.,
Although definitely very impressive looking and innovative for its age, that aircraft had to be a maintenance nightmare for its engine and hydraulics crews.
Imagine what could have been with 60 years of evolutionary development on that ? What a shame . How many incredible things would we have if bureaucrats weren't so short sighted.
Yet again blame a Labour government .
@@johnreed8336- It's the Tories who run out of other people's money .
@@johnreed8336
As a Yank, I can only say "labour" type political parties are the cause of a lot of problems across the globe
unmitigated technical failure, and a hopeless dead-end concept..
Did they really only have that one option for the behemoth rotors? That being the end mounted propulsion system? Wouldn’t a typical turbo shaft engine that could produce the same thrust necessary as the tip mounted propulsion systems have worked? Then they could have just disengaged the main rotor from the shaft when autorotation was applicable? Unless such an engine concept was not available at the time? Any way, just a thought
With that setup, the machine would also need a tail rotor to counter the reverse torque on the fuselage. The whole beauty of the tip jets was no tail rotor was needed.
@@mandolinic I suspect running a single propulsion engine/prop would be sufficient to counteract the rotor torque
Now that there are Helipads on top of buildings, it might be time to revisit something like this especially in the US where people still live in suburbs and work downtown. I’m hopeful the noise could be mitigated although I live near a military base and helicopters still cause conversation to stop until they are gone!
Ivan put it on the Chopper. But Demetriy it's to much of load for the helicopter.
I've got this cousin in aerodynamics department. He make us bus that Flys like plane and is helicopter.
Your a mad man Demetriy
He, He, Remember when Pan Am would fly you from the East River to Kennedy??
one wonders what modern technology could do with this design
Yeah the thing with tip jets is, they're hella loud. Not something you want in an urban environment.
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It was a victim of the Airline "consolidation" of socialist England and the fear it would make air travel accessible for working folk. The aristocracy didn't want Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny to be able to commute with them and soil their experience.
Thats why we dont have bullet trains!
Sounds like faffery.
Blaming socialism and aristocracy at the same time? Apart from Tony Benn, not much cross over.
You're contradicting yourself there. Was it the aristocracy's fault or the "socialist" government's? Make up your mind.
Papa osprey 😂😂😂😂
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This ideas and design more realistic to day with new upgrade bladed rotor know propeller toroidal least sound
I wonder if they learned stuff about stubby wings from this, and that’s why we see them on the F/A18…?
Lol... very unlikely.
These Could Lift 18,000+ lb 💪
And Held The World Speed Record for Rotor Wing Air-Craft for a Few Decades 😲
Had Multiple Back-Up Safety Redundancy ✔
No Tail-Rotor ✔
Even If It Had Both Engine's Failure 😨
It Would Glide to The Ground, Safely ✔
The Huey 10 Years Later could Lift 4,500 lb
Bacon-Foil Protection Against Bullets for Crew in Vietnam 😨 Wha...?
Epic failure... completely dead-end concept. Fairey made claims it could not deliver..
When the monopolists who own the airports realised this would be their end they got together and killed this innovative marvel.
This would have been good business for airports. People could board the Rotodyne at interurban helipads, fly to the main airport, then transfer to their airline flight. Then, the airport could sell fuel and ramp charges to the Rotodyne commuter company. The Rotodyne was perfect for this. It was not fast enough for long-range flight.
@@rescue270 Airports would be reduced by 90% to mainly international flights, domestic flights up to 500km away could have been set up anywhere by anyone. Not good business for the airport monopolists. The rich kill innovation with a commitment few comprehend.
Guess it was not practical
*GREAT* idea. Too bad it screamed like a banshee...
Too bad it disappeared!
Watching your channel is like a vacation for my mind and soul. Thank you for your fun and creative content!🦐🏹⛏
Begone, thotbot!
Unmitigated failure... hopeless dead-end concept,
Background music sucks on this one
yea I asked for it
Elon musk needs to fix it and make it work
Like that id10t fixed Twitter? You Muskrats are pathetic.
Fortnite WISHES.
1960s sorry too noisy , late 60s earlt 70s let's build concorde yeah right
Two excellent examples of the downfall of the UK aircraft industry... the brits developed planes that were so seriously flawed that no one wanted to buy them,
only a person who believes in a Queen would build such a hideous aircraft.
third
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Yey another ai channel
Lol no ,the guy just sounds like that, he's been doing these videos way way before AI became a thing.
You are wrong, however, you may feel free to leave. Or IOW,
Bye Felicia
If it has any financial viability as technology progresses, it will not die.
Its a completely hopeless, dead-end concept