Sikorsky S-58 and Westland Wessex

[ysi_maniac]

BeauWessex: VTOL autogyro intended for special operations

[ysi_maniac]

Attack helo with:
-Vestigial wings intended to carry weapons or tanks.
-Jet based in Pegasus that moves rotors too. Nose intake. Maybe 2 or 4 swivelling nozzles.
-Aden cannon ventral pods.

[zenrat]

Cool.
I used Lysander stub wings.
Wessex - Sky Pirates 9 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

There wouldn't be much room for the crew in there, the fuselage would be stuffed with Pegasus! 

[ysi_maniac]

^^^^^
Hi, PR19_Kit

IMHO there is room for a Pegasus, but I was wrong adding windows to cabin. Anyway I was thinking that something like a down sized and down rated Pegasus will be enough.



In this image, scale is correct and Pegasus is not down sized

[PR19_Kit]

Nicely done. 

I'm glad I'm not the crew though, the Pegasus turbine is almost exactly in line with those guy's vital parts. 

[ysi_maniac]

Land King: land based Sea King (with bits of Wessex)

[NARSES2]

That works for me 

[PR19_Kit]

I like the concept of a 'Land King'. A pity the FAA called theirs 'Commandos' really.

[ysi_maniac]

You take two RW models



... and then you get two nice whifs

[AS.12]

Sud Bi-Bastan S-58, two coupled Bastan VI turboshafts each of 950 shp.  First flew 5 October 1962, the same day as the RAF's first coupled-Gnome Wessex!

Conversion kits were to have been manufactured along with similar packs for the Piasecki 44 / H-21, but ALAT was more interested in the forthcoming Puma.

https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1963/1963%20-%202533.PDF

[AS.12]

Brief but revealing view of the US Navy's twin-T58 HSS-1F from 45 seconds into this video, including details of the access doors:

https://youtu.be/4H0IUH8R5s4?t=45

Quite different to the Wessex installation that used the same basic engine.  The HSS had them mounted horizontally and both exhausted to port.

[zenrat]

A very simple Wessex/S-58 whiff, which might slip unnoticed past many a JMN, is to cut a second door into the port side.

[Knightflyer]

I know it's probably wrong sizewise, but the top one makes me think of a Westland Wesminster ? (although having just looked at photos the tail-boom is 'plumper' more of a Blackhawk shape?

[Caveman]

Land King: land based Sea King (with bits of Wessex)

I do like that!