Avon Show 2019

The Wooksta! · August 05, 2019, 04:08:14 PM

Is OGL yawning or trying to catch flies?

PR19_Kit · August 05, 2019, 05:11:57 PM

I think he was trying to say 'Don't take the pic now!'

Howard of Effingham · August 05, 2019, 11:04:33 PM

One of those Harriers is mine, Kit! Just saying.

PR19_Kit · August 06, 2019, 12:03:29 AM

Quote from: Howard of Effingham on August 05, 2019, 11:04:33 PM

One of those Harriers is mine, Kit! Just saying.

Sorry Trevor, I didn't know that.

Which one was it?

Howard of Effingham · August 06, 2019, 01:52:53 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 06, 2019, 12:03:29 AM
Quote from: Howard of Effingham on August 05, 2019, 11:04:33 PM

One of those Harriers is mine, Kit! Just saying.

Sorry Trevor, I didn't know that.

Which one was it?

Its next to the Dutch one. a Royal Canadian Navy T4. I keep quiet about this one. Its been around for ages but Thornbury was its first public appearance.

NARSES2 · August 06, 2019, 06:19:37 AM

Some really nice stuff there.

Whose is the Osprey ? Apologies if it's been on site and I've missed/forgotten about it

kitnut617 · August 06, 2019, 07:02:18 AM

Um, what is being called an Osprey please, I know the V-22 is called that but I don't see any V-22s there.

PR19_Kit · August 06, 2019, 10:22:25 AM

What Robert said, we didn't have an Osprey on the stand.

They have two big prop/rotors, one on each end of the wings.

NARSES2 · August 07, 2019, 06:02:53 AM

Quote from: kitnut617 on August 06, 2019, 07:02:18 AM
Um, what is being called an Osprey please, I know the V-22 is called that but I don't see any V-22s there.

Ooooops no there isn't. Mea Culpa.

No idea why but I thought those two Rotodyne wifs were. Obviously wasn't concentrating, appologies.

Nevertheless the question still holds

PR19_Kit · August 07, 2019, 08:17:53 AM

The big green 'dyne is my 'Rotocrane HC4' that has its own thread here somewhere.

The Kamov style FAA SAR 'dyne was given to us at the Cosford Show buy the guy who'd built it for his club's Whiffing GB, but wasn't really interested in it, so who were we to look a gift 'dyne in the intake, eh?

Hobbes · August 07, 2019, 10:19:00 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 05, 2019, 02:57:57 PM

What's the white jet on the left?

Gondor · August 07, 2019, 10:56:22 AM

Quote from: Hobbes on August 07, 2019, 10:19:00 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 05, 2019, 02:57:57 PM

What's the white jet on the left?

It looks like a Tornado with TSR2 wings and intakes

Gondor

JayBee · August 07, 2019, 11:21:32 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 07, 2019, 08:17:53 AM

The Kamov style FAA SAR 'dyne was given to us at the Cosford Show buy the guy who'd built it for his club's Whiffing GB, but wasn't really interested in it, so who were we to look a gift 'dyne in the intake, eh?

I did wonder a bit about that one. What would be the point of co-axial rotors on an autogyro?

PR19_Kit · August 07, 2019, 12:05:09 PM

Quote from: Gondor on August 07, 2019, 10:56:22 AM

It looks like a Tornado with TSR2 wings and intakes

That's pretty much what it was too, in 1/48th as well. VERY impressive.

Quote from: JayBee on August 07, 2019, 11:21:32 AM

I did wonder a bit about that one. What would be the point of co-axial rotors on an autogyro?

Not a question you need ask in a place like this Jim.

It is what it is, to use a current well worn phrase.

Old Wombat · August 07, 2019, 07:39:45 PM

From what I can gather, most helicopters bank better to the left, as most of them have blades that rotate in an anti-clockwise direction, which gives the advancing blade better bite into the air as they turn.

Kamov & Russian coaxial rotor helicopters bank as well in both directions, as they have advancing blades on both sides.

I'd hazard that even with unpowered auto-gyro blades this effect would come into play & coaxial blades would give better agility in turns, at least, & would be a back-up if one set of blades failed for any reason.