Airfix

[Weaver]

Airfix are asking for ideas for the 2023 range on Twitter.

The thread, which is open until the 26th, is here: https://twitter.com/Airfix/status/1472431539241771008?s=20

[McColm]

I think it's the same link on Instagram as well.

[PR19_Kit]

They're about to get BURIED in requests for the Rotodyne from somewhere in Australia! 

[McColm]

They're about to get BURIED in requests for the Rotodyne from somewhere in Australia! 

Wasn't Australia one of the launch customers?

[PR19_Kit]

They're about to get BURIED in requests for the Rotodyne from somewhere in Australia! 

Wasn't Australia one of the launch customers?

I don't think there were any real 'customers' as such. BEA were the primary target, for the London - Paris route, but the noise issues scotched all that. And then the Government forced the Fairey-Westland merger and Westland didn't care less about the 'dyne as they were pushing their Westminster.

In the end neither happened, bar the prototypes sadly.

[Mossie]

There were four companies that made orders, Okanagan (became CHC), JAL, New York Airways and BEA.

[Pellson]

Airfix are asking for ideas for the 2023 range on Twitter.

The thread, which is open until the 26th, is here: https://twitter.com/Airfix/status/1472431539241771008?s=20

Wrote in a catalogue of requests after having read most of the (at the time) 852 earlier requests. Well - a little nagging can't hurt.. 

[Rheged]

I've added to the communal whinge about Rotodynes

[tigercat]

No one mentioned yet they're doing a Vailant  in 1/72

[kitnut617]

It's their Valiant reboxed TC, it will include the accessory recon pack you could get separately before.

[Pellson]

It's their Valiant reboxed TC, it will include the accessory recon pack you could get separately before.

..and I liked that kit a lot. Have built a K.1 and have a B.2 ongoing.

[elmayerle]

There were four companies that made orders, Okanagan (became CHC), JAL, New York Airways and BEA.

New York Airways had some colorful schemes on their VK-107-II's that would look good on a Rotodyne.  It would be worth doing on in Chicago Helicopter Airways livery, too; they flew a triangle route between Midway, Meggs Field - just off downtown Chicago, and O'Hare.

[AeroplaneDriver]

I'm 52 and a half and despite my career in aviation have flown in a helicopter exactly once.  A New York Airways Vertol 107 from LGA-JFK the first time we visited the USA in 1978.  Quite the experience for a young lad.

[Mossie]

New York Airways had some colorful schemes on their VK-107-II's that would look good on a Rotodyne.  It would be worth doing on in Chicago Helicopter Airways livery, too; they flew a triangle route between Midway, Meggs Field - just off downtown Chicago, and O'Hare.

I'm 52 and a half and despite my career in aviation have flown in a helicopter exactly once.  A New York Airways Vertol 107 from LGA-JFK the first time we visited the USA in 1978.  Quite the experience for a young lad.

I did some Rotodyne profiles years back, including a New York Airways machine.  It got photoboxed so might not show:


There are more profiles here, including all the launch customers and more civvy schemes from the bottom of page 3:
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=12245.0

[zenrat]

The one 'dyne i've built (jet powered with a Pegasus in the pylon providing compressed air to the rotor tips) was in a TAA scheme. I should accompany it with QANTAS and Ansett versions.