Who / What / Where Game Part 2 - Page 220

Catfish · 03-10-23, 02:26 PM

Yes a tip jet used like this. It is NOT a helicopter, not only..

Eichhörnchen · 03-10-23, 02:30 PM

Tip jet for Fairey Rotodyne?

Catfish · 03-10-23, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Tip jet for Fairey Rotodyne?

We have a winner!

Yes it is a tipjet of the Fairey Rotodyne:

It used the tip jets for spinnning the rotor during start or landing vertically, and they were switched off during normal flight, the rotor being used as an autogiro while two powerful turboprop engines provided thrust during flying.

There were three pipes feeding air and fuel into the jets through the rotor blades, igniting the mixture within the tips provided thrust through the nozzles during vertical take-off and landing; it was not needed and shut off during flight.

The Rotodyne was a very reliable and successful design, with orders coming in internationally from airlines and military, then further funding was stopped and the project vanished in history.
(The US later came up with the Bell Boeing "Osprey" as a multi-versatile aircraft that combined helicopter and-fast-flight capabilities, but it keeps crashing now and then, and never was a real good design when you consider balance and ground effect.)
The Fairey Rotodyne was much more stable and faster, with less fuel consumption.
(I built one of those as an Airfix model

)

Well done and deserved, over to Eichhörnchen

Eichhörnchen · 03-10-23, 03:28 PM

A really good one and a real stinker

What a fascinating aircraft - I also built the Airfix kit as a kid and have three of them even now, in different historical boxings

What is this then?

mapuc · 03-10-23, 04:04 PM

A microscopic picture of some creature

Markus

Eichhörnchen · 03-10-23, 06:20 PM

^ Nope - see you tomorrow (I'm off to bed)

Ostfriese · 03-11-23, 12:58 AM

Is it shown in more or less original size or is it enlarged/zoomed in?

Jimbuna · 03-11-23, 04:01 AM

Fabric?

Eichhörnchen · 03-11-23, 04:15 AM

@ Osty - this cropped image gives you a close-up picture of its surface - and is from a photo taken at a distance

@ Jim - no

Jimbuna · 03-11-23, 04:16 AM

Surface of a planet?

Eichhörnchen · 03-11-23, 06:20 AM

^ No, it's earth

Catfish · 03-11-23, 09:23 AM

butbut earth is a planet

Some rock/landscape from afar?

Aktungbby · 03-11-23, 10:37 AM

A giant religious statue?

Eichhörnchen · 03-11-23, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish

butbut earth is a planet

Some rock/landscape from afar?

butbut I didn't say it was planet Earth - I said it was earth

Anyway - it's not rock or landscape

@ Aktung - nope to that too

Aktungbby · 03-11-23, 11:09 AM

is it an art work?

03-10-23, 02:26 PM	#3286
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03-10-23, 02:30 PM	#3287
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,755 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Tip jet for Fairey Rotodyne? __________________

03-10-23, 03:28 PM	#3289
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,755 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	A really good one and a real stinker What a fascinating aircraft - I also built the Airfix kit as a kid and have three of them even now, in different historical boxings What is this then? __________________

03-10-23, 04:04 PM	#3290
mapuc Fleet Admiral Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 17,919 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	A microscopic picture of some creature Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

03-10-23, 06:20 PM	#3291
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,755 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ Nope - see you tomorrow (I'm off to bed) __________________

03-11-23, 12:58 AM	#3292
Ostfriese Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2004 Location: Northern Germany Posts: 1,174 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Is it shown in more or less original size or is it enlarged/zoomed in?

03-11-23, 04:01 AM	#3293
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,333 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Fabric? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-11-23, 04:15 AM	#3294
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,755 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	@ Osty - this cropped image gives you a close-up picture of its surface - and is from a photo taken at a distance @ Jim - no __________________

03-11-23, 04:16 AM	#3295
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,333 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Surface of a planet? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-11-23, 06:20 AM	#3296
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,755 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ No, it's earth __________________

03-11-23, 09:23 AM	#3297
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,897 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	butbut earth is a planet Some rock/landscape from afar? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

03-11-23, 10:37 AM	#3298
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,880 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	A giant religious statue? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

03-11-23, 11:09 AM	#3300
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,880 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	is it an art work? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"