Up, Up and Away - The VTOL/Helicopter GB Inspiration thread.

[Overkiller]

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[Mossie]

A few from me:

Early Mil Mi-24 mock up:


Kaman K-140 Rotodyne analogue:


HS Helicrane proposals:




Mi-26 Flying Crane proposal:


Cierva Autogiro.  Autogiro's are unfashionable, maybe a modern version?


Dragon Warrior UAV


Eagle Eye UAV:


Rotodyne!


Avpro Exint pod, ideal addition to a helicopter or V/STOL type:

[Mossie]

Homer:


Dornier AVS


HS P.1214 X-Wing


Spectrum Cloudbase:


UNIT Valiant


McDD JAST proposal (think it would have been F-36?)


Bristol Jumping Jeep proposal:


Folland Jumping Jeep proposal:


Hawker P.1126


Curtiss Wright Air Car (more an air cushion vehice than VTOL, but just give it a bit more thrust)


Flying Saucer Bus:


Westland WG-33 'flying jeep'

[Weaver]

And of course, let's not forget the Moller Skycar: available next year, or the year after that, or the year after that....



(I found a brochure for it circa 1983 while I was looking for something else: it hasn't changed much)

[dy031101]

The titular jet fighter from "Raiden" arcade series can takeoff vertically via tilting main engines and liftjets.  

A picture showing it can be found here.

I brought this up because I'm a fan of the series.

[jcf]

More Brit Flying Jeep weirdness. 

[jcf]

Gloster projetcs.

Transports.








Fighters.




Meatboxes. 

[Taiidantomcat]

I know we have been having issues on the site with excessive pictures so I will post a couple links from elsewhere on the site, and you will have to trust that they are well worth the mouse clicks:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,30133.0/highlight,helicopter.html

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,24903.15.html

[Thiel]

Sharkit does a 1/72 version

[Mossie]

SNECMA Coleoptre:


Focke Wulf VTOL:


BAE 'Antigravity aircraft'


HS P.1141:


Skycat hybrid airship


Hafner Rotabuggy


Soviet convertiplane (anyone know what this is?)


Avpro Avenger UCAV


Avpro UCAV-1


Avro WS606


Avro Silverbug:


HS.681


Flapper Ornihopter.  This one wasn't capable of VTOL, but there's a lot of scope for Ornithopters


Groen Brothers gyrodyne, early version


Groen Brothers Monsoon

[Thiel]

Wow, the Avro Silverbug gives a new meaning to mid-air collision.

[Mossie]

Yeah, the idea behind the Silverbug was it's use as a high speed rammer.  It would have had a max speed of around mach 3.5 & would have had no offensive armament, just a hardened edge to the saucer.  I've never been comfortable with the idea of ramming aircraft, it's alright the designers & brass saying it's largely invulnerable, let them fly it at mach 3 into several hundred thousand pounds of nuke carrying metal!

[kitnut617]

I'm not joining the GB (way to much work piled up) but here's one I was working on as an example.



Project's stalled though (my mind wandered off in another direction)

[Thiel]

Stonking big engines you've got there,

[kitnut617]

They're 1/72 Harrier fuselages (without the cockpit) attached to a 1/72 Canberra, they're about the same length as the Canberra nacelles.

You can see the build to where's it at on this forum if you do a search for "STOVL Canberra"