Unusual Historical Rotor/Vtol Craft

Bolkow 102 Trainer ... (Notice, it only has 1 blade (see bo-103))

Saunders-Roe Skeeter - Wood & Fabric MR Blades 1957 Fairey Rotodyne 1960 Bell Rocket Belt - h2o2 powered 1961 Bolkow 103 'One man One Blade' Helicopter 1962 Piasecki Pathfinder, Compound Rotor/Wings 1964 Bolkow 46 'Derschmidt Lagging Blade Rotor' 1964 The prototype Lockheed Cheyenne AH-56A Hiller 'Flying Platform' vtol craft -- (Hiller Museum) Hiller 'RotorCycle' helicopter -- (Hiller Museum)

LEFT: Fairey Rotodyne

RIGHT: Sikorsky S-69 ABC

BELOW: Lockheed Cheyenne AH56A (left) and Bolkow BO-46 (right)