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    A tip jet is a jet nozzle at the tip of some helicopter rotor blades, used to spin the rotor, much like a Catherine wheel firework. Tip jets replace the...
    23 KB (2,859 words) - 04:34, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep
    The American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep (known as the XA-8 by its manufacturer) was an experimental tip jet helicopter developed in 1951 by the American...
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    drones and use on aircraft with a human pilot is rare.[citation needed] Tip jet designs let the rotor push itself through the air and avoid generating...
    103 KB (10,951 words) - 01:33, 19 August 2024
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    helicopters. Except for tip jets driven by unburnt compressed air, very high noise levels is the single most important reason why tip jet powered rotors have...
    56 KB (6,871 words) - 13:47, 6 August 2024
  • directional control as it is not required to counteract torque, as the tip jet system does not require torque compensation. The aircraft fuselage is made...
    4 KB (327 words) - 16:16, 18 January 2022
  • The Gluhareff Pressure Jet (or tip jet) is a type of jet engine that, like a valveless pulse jet, has no moving parts. It was invented by Eugene Michael...
    4 KB (506 words) - 16:43, 8 June 2024
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    development of the earlier Fairey Jet Gyrodyne, which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned...
    42 KB (5,051 words) - 11:19, 4 April 2024
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    house the power plant or thrust of an aircraft. The EWR VJ 101 used tip mounted jets, the V-22 uses tilting wingtip mounted engines, and the Harrier uses...
    5 KB (563 words) - 03:13, 8 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for SNCASO SO.1221 Djinn
    helicopters to be produced. The Djinn was also the first rotorcraft to harness tip-jet propulsion to enter production, and the first production turbine powered...
    17 KB (1,967 words) - 11:48, 16 May 2024
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    NOTAR (redirect from Direct jet thruster)
    Coaxial rotors Fenestron Intermeshing rotors (synchropter) Tandem rotors Tip jet rotor Youngcopter Neo NOTAR is an American-designed system and so this...
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  • The Vortech Kestrel Jet is an American tip-jet helicopter that was designed in the 1980s. Kits for amateur construction were originally provided by Vortech...
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    A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines. Whereas the engines in propeller-powered...
    21 KB (2,793 words) - 04:01, 31 July 2024
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    than any previous rotorcraft, but the program was terminated due to the tip-jet noise and complexity of the technology which gave only a modest gain in...
    14 KB (1,464 words) - 20:55, 20 February 2024
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    experimental tip jet helicopter designed and produced by Wiener-Neustädter Flugzeugwerke. It was the first helicopter to take off and land using tip jets to drive...
    12 KB (1,164 words) - 10:01, 20 February 2024
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    a jet-powered helicopter using ramjets. Before that there had been experiments with the XH-26 Jet Jeep tip rotor pulse jets. The HJ-1 ramjet tipped rotor...
    13 KB (1,255 words) - 11:45, 24 August 2024
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    rebuilt as the Jet Gyrodyne and used to develop a pressure-jet rotor drive system later for the Rotodyne transport compound gyroplane. At the tip of each stub...
    16 KB (1,950 words) - 17:03, 9 June 2024
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    Piasecki Helicopter 1952 1954 707 American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep Experimental tip jet observation helicopter American Helicopter 1952 Never 5 Sikorsky...
    16 KB (354 words) - 19:55, 26 June 2024
  • Gluhareff EMG-300 is a single-seat helicopter with a rotor powered by tip jet engines. It was designed and built by Eugene Michael Gluhareff in the 1990s...
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  • The American Air Jet American is an American homebuilt tip jet helicopter designed and built by American Air Jet of Woodland Park, Colorado for amateur...
    2 KB (229 words) - 15:46, 18 January 2022
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    V-1 flying bomb. Focke-Wulf "Triebflügel" (Powered Wings) – a planned tip jet rotorcraft, tailsitter interceptor Focke-Wulf Ta 183 "Huckebein" – a planned...
    24 KB (2,832 words) - 17:58, 21 August 2024
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