FAIREY ROTODYNE

AEROPLANE DATABASE 16 IN-DEPTH PAGES Development Flight Testing Technical Details Insights Cancellation ● Fairey’s vision of the city-to-city transport future ● Test pilot Ron Gellatly on flying the Rotodyne ● Killed off before its time, or an inevitable demise? XE521 captured air-to-air during the 1959 SBAC display at Farnborough. AEROPLANE The sole flying Fairey Rotodyne prototype, XE521. CHRIS SANDHAM-BAILEY DEVELOPMENT FAIREY ROTODYNE Fairey’s vision of the future The Helicopter Association Garden Party at Ripley, Surrey, on 3 June 1958 witnessed