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The Fairey Gyrodyne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2023

J A J Bennett
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Extract

The success of the helicopter today is primarily the result of a background of rotary-wing experience covering many years of research into the problems of the gyroplane This simple form of rotorcraft, proposed by JUAN DE LA CIERVA, was developed to a stage at which vertical take-off and landing were normal maneouvres and were no longer exclusive features of the helicopter Only the ability to hover remained as the unique advantage of the power-operated rotor—an advantage for which a heavy penalty had to be paid The general problems of the helicopter for civil use are concerned mainly with an alleviation of the penalty that hovering has incurred

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Afternoon Session
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The Journal of the Helicopter Association of Great Britain , Volume 2 , Issue 4: Jan-Feb-March 1949 , March 1949 , pp. 22 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1949

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References

1 Bennett, J A J Aircraft Engineering, January, 1940Google Scholar
2 Bennett, J A J Journal of the Helicopter Association, July, 1948Google Scholar