Tip Jet - Rotorcraft Using Tip Jets

Rotorcraft Using Tip Jets

  • Percival P.74 - underpowered, it never took off
  • Hiller YH-32 Hornet 'jet jeep' had good lifting capability but was otherwise poor
  • Mil V-7 - soviet turbojet helicopter
  • Fairey Jet Gyrodyne - provided data for the Rotodyne
  • Fairey Rotodyne - 48 seater short-haul airliner design
  • Fairey Ultra-light Helicopter - four built for military use but no further orders
  • Fiat 7002
  • Focke-Wulf Fw Triebflügel World War II interceptor design — not built
  • McDonnell XV-1
  • Hughes XH-17 - flying crane (largest rotor of any type on a helicopter)
  • Nederlandse Helikopter Industrie NHI H-3 Kolibrie (ca 11 built)
  • SwissCopter of Innosuisse Corp. (DragonFly)
  • Rotary Rocket Roton ATV
  • Sud-Ouest Djinn - compressed air tip jets
  • JK-1 Trzmiel (polish prototype one-seat helicopter)

None apart from the Sud-Ouest Djinn have made it into production.

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