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Napier Eland
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The Napier Eland is a British turboshaft or turboprop gas-turbine engine built by Napier & Son in the early 1950s. Production of the Eland ceased in 1961 when the Napier company was taken over by Roll
Napier Eland on display at the Helicopter Museum (Weston).
Napier Eland on display at the Helicopter Museum (Weston).
Napier's Eland testbed Airspeed Ambassador at Farnborough SBAC Show 1955
Napier's Eland testbed Airspeed Ambassador at Farnborough SBAC Show 1955
Fairey Rotodyne
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The Fairey Rotodyne was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military uses. A development of the earlier Fairey Jet Gyrodyne, which
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…Wasp piston engine. Potential production applications which were subsequently cancelled were the Westland Westminster heavy-lift helicopter and the Fairey Rotodyne gyrodyne. The Rotodyne operated as an autogyro in forward flight using the Eland turboprops. For vertical flight the rotor was driven using an auxiliary…
Rotodyne XE521 in flight
Rotodyne XE521 in flight
A wind tunnel model of the Fairey Rotodyne, The Helicopter Museum, 2011
A wind tunnel model of the Fairey Rotodyne, The Helicopter Museum, 2011
The Fairey Rotodyne prototype circa 1959
The Fairey Rotodyne prototype circa 1959
One of the few surviving parts of the dismantled prototype, The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare
One of the few surviving parts of the dismantled prototype, The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare