“Increasingly likely event”

Did you mean increasingly UNlikely event? 😀 So what company/country has got design authority over Concord(e)? :diablo:

Hi.
I don’t think the Fairey Rotodyne was at the 1961 Show, It’s not in the
book i have on Farnborough.
Phil.

Only one Rotodyne prototype was built, but it performed admirably. It set a world speed record for a helicopter, at 190.9 mph (307 km/h) on 5 January 1959, over a 100 km closed circuit. As well as being fast, the craft had several safety features: it could hover with one engine shut down and its propellor feathered, and the prototype demonstrated several fully autogiro landings. The prototype was demonstrated several times at the Farnbourgh and Paris air shows, regularly amazing onlookers. The Rotodyne’s tip drive and unloaded rotor made her performance far better when compared to pure helicopters and other forms of ‘convertiplanes’. The aircraft could be flown at 175 knots (324 km/h) and pulled into a steep climbing turn without demonstrating any adverse handling characteristics.

Not conclusive proof, but the project was cancelled in 2/62. Below is a link
on W/Cmdr. Wallis’s page to the Rotodyne video.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Features/WallisKen/020110wallis.asp

by making another appeal for any more photos of the Fairey Rotodyne, especially anything taken at Farnborough in 1961 showing it in RAF markings?

Did it appear in RAF colours? My searching makes it look like looking for hens’ teeth! But I did find this interesting photo which shows the Rotodyne with three tail fins.

Similar situation to that C150 that crashed into a building soon after 11/09/01. Do you recall where it was?

Believe it was Miami, certainly Florida.

G-EBIR ex VP-KAA, ‘Miss Kenya’ was first registered 22/1/24 and is current until 12/9/06 with the Shuttleworth Collection.

Pilot witness on ground reporting a light plane doing unusual movements prior to the crash, possibly an urgent return to an airport. Fire department report at least one dead. Building contains 180 apartments which are now being evacuated.

Addt. info. The plane took off from Teterboro airport, about twelve miles from the crash site.

General agreement about its look from the posts of last year! 😀

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34745&highlight=MB5

Looks like an adult’s pedal car to me. :p