Canada’s First Successful Rotorcraft
Canadian Home Built Helicopter By Don Dwiggins – 1986 Although it was never developed into commercial applications, this counter-rotating, ground-shaking contraption is now recognized as…
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Buford J Schramm Rotor Blade Patent
PATENT 3,356,153 Patented December 5th 1967 Rotor Blade Design This invention relates to a rotor blade for helicopters. Rotor blades for helicopters involve complications not…
The Riddle Of Rickety VHF Radios
Essential Aircraft Radio Communications How To Keep Them Working? Repair Or Replace? The Experts Have Some Hints — And Conflicting Views (December 1968) It’s easy,…
The Driven Rotor
Helicopter Main Rotor Systems DYNAMIC ROTOR ADJUSTMENTS WITH POWER Wouldn’t it be just great if the first time you ran your blades up to 350…
Understanding The Rotor System
The Homebuilt Helicopter Rotor System The rotor system of any helicopter encompasses three main areas — the hub itself, the control of the hub and…
RotorWay Pro Drive Belt Modification
Pro Drive Replacing Old Technology Pro-Drive gets the oil out of the RotorWay helicopter drive system In the beginning, the RotorWay series of helicopters incorporated…
Fairey Rotodyne Rotorcraft
Evolutionary Revolutionary Rotodyne The Fairey Rotodyne still holds the world speed record for convertiplanes. It was a superb aircraft, with enormous potential. At one stage…
Life At Rotorway Helicopters
Rotorway International Exec Helicopter Chief Pilot I left Rotorway Helicopters aka RotorWay International (RWI) a little over five years ago to pursue other adventures including…
Fairey Ultra Light Helicopter
Early Military Ultralight Helicopter Prototypes Built by Fairey Aviation, the manufacturer of the previously featured Rotodyne, at it’s factory in Hayes, UK, near today’s Heathrow…
Flying Helicopters In Clouds & Smoke
Night Flying Helicopters For VFR Pilots This past summer there were several accidents flying helicopters in which multiple fatalities resulted from the helicopter pilot’s decision…