What fighter?

Some great and very timely drawings there! I am in the process of gathering information on the Rotachute for a forthcoming modelling project so this thread was right on the money for me!

Martin

Likewise. All my experience is three axis and I have decided I’m too old to try to come to grips with controls which operate the opposite way.

Do you know if any film of it actually free flying exists?

Prior to me discovering these drawings (put aside for burning!) at Boscombe Down I found a reel of poor quality 16mm film which showed a Rotachute landing.
The early Rotachutes without the wheeled undercarriage tended to fall over afte landing, and the film shows this. What struck me on seeing the first time was just how small the thing was (or just how tall Sqn Ldr Little was) especially when the pilot stood up climbing out of the Rotachute on its side.
The film was offered to the Museum at Wallop but the curator at the time didn’t want it although he did take a VHS copy I had made. In the end the reel went via the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (it was afterall filmed at Ringway) to the North West Film Archive where I presume it still is.

Flying that thing? Funnily enough, SWMBO and I both looked at the Focke-Achgelis (?) rotary-winged kite at Cosford last weekend and thought “Wouldn’t that look good being towed down the runway at old Warden?”. Same comment applies!

Adrian

(does my mind deceive me, or is there footage of the Rotajeep in the air somewhere?)

Do you know if any film of it actually free flying exists? I’ve seen the pictures of it being towed but am curious what it’s descent and landing looked like.

But I’m not volunteering to fly it

Neither would I, but only because the controls operate like a weight shift microlight and I know that I’d end up pulling when I should be pushing.:stupid:

Cracking stuff. But I’m not volunteering to fly it 😀

Rotachute it is.
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This data would have given it away too early.
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You can see the gun sight and the compass (the only instrumentation?) mounted on the forward tube.
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This was one of a collection of original Hafner drawings presented to the latest BAPC meeting at Middle Wallop.

Sounds like a Rotachute variant to me.

What era?

(Don’t say the cold war! 😀 )

Hafner Rotachute?

Stirling or dak

Not a Horsa but I like your thinking.

Airspeed Horsa?

Dave