Winged helicopters

[Rheged]

Ahhhh, they gave it some leftover Lysander bits for its birthday 

They were just found hanging about in a shed at Yeovil.............

I wonder how they will use the Welkin wingset that was stored at the back of the hanger?.........A helicopter at 50,000 feet???

[zenrat]

Ahhhh, they gave it some leftover Lysander bits for its birthday 

They were just found hanging about in a shed at Yeovil.............

I wonder how they will use the Welkin wingset that was stored at the back of the hanger?.........A helicopter at 50,000 feet???

We'll leave to Kit to build that one...

[PR19_Kit]

Ahhhh, they gave it some leftover Lysander bits for its birthday 

They were just found hanging about in a shed at Yeovil.............

I wonder how they will use the Welkin wingset that was stored at the back of the hanger?.........A helicopter at 50,000 feet???

We'll leave to Kit to build that one...

Hehehe, just up my street, yes. 

[JayBee]

I remember an episode of Airwolf in which it had to fly at extreme altitude, can't remember the plot. However it sadly did not have any wings at all.

[PR19_Kit]

I remember an episode of Airwolf in which it had to fly at extreme altitude, can't remember the plot. However it sadly did not have any wings at all.

You mean there WAS a plot? 

[jcf]

I remember an episode of Airwolf in which it had to fly at extreme altitude, can't remember the plot. However it sadly did not have any wings at all.

You mean there WAS a plot? 

 

[Weaver]

Might want to increase the bar on that high-altitude helicopter Rheged: the official FAI world record's already at just under 41,000ft (set in 1972) followed by a flameout, followed by the official world's longest autorotation (not kidding...). Looks like it's been broken unofficially since too.

I remember an episode of Airwolf in which it had to fly at extreme altitude, can't remember the plot. However it sadly did not have any wings at all.

They probably retracted invisibly into the cockpit...

[McColm]

I've gone the other way and converted a 1/72 Lockheed C-130E into a helicopter /heliplane. The tail of the C-130 was removed and a Constellation tripe tail fins added instead.  The rotor head is a Mil Mi-26 Halo (rotor blades trimmed to fit). Radome replaced by a resin BAe Nimrod AEW3 nose radar.
Wings not fitted but I found two 1/48 t urbofans from a Lockheed S-3A (spares and repairs) glued in wing stubs.

[KiwiZac]

I've seen an artist's impression of a Helicules, weird-looking beast!

[ysi_maniac]

BeauWessex: VTOL autogyro intended for special operations

[Joe C-P]

BeauWessex: VTOL autogyro intended for special operations

This must be built!

[Mossie]

BeauWessex: VTOL autogyro intended for special operations

This must be built!

If you dropped the cockpit it'd have the look of a Beaufighter.

[martinbayer]

In 1970, Boeing modified a CH-47A Chinook into the winged experimental Model 347: https://travelforaircraft.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/winged-chinook-write/

Martin

[ysi_maniac]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting.

[Weaver]

BeauWessex: VTOL autogyro intended for special operations

Nice one! 

Since that style of helicopter had the engine(s) in the nose, you might imagine it with a big single prop on the nose, or two smaller props in side pods as in the Do.28. The power could then be clutched from the rotor blades to the props once it was in forward flight and getting wing lift. If you had two side pods, they could either be on the side of the nose, taking power from a gearbox and clutches inserted between the engine and the main drive shaft, or they could be behind the cockpit, with the power take-off inserted between the drive shaft and the main rotor gearbox.

EDIT: yes I have just seen the first post in the thread and my year-old response to it, AFTER I posted....