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List Of Single Seat Helicopters
List of single seat helicopters is a list of helicopters with one seat. They may or may not be ultralight aircraft. Some single seat helicopters are evtols. * Adams-Wilson Hobbycopter *Airbus A³ Vahana (eVTOL) * American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep * Baumgärtl Heliofly III * Chrysler VZ-6 * Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 * De Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle * Eagle Helicycle * Eagle's Perch *Flettner Fl 282 * Gluhareff EMG-300 * Goodyear GA-400R Gizmo *Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle * Heli-Sport CH-7 *Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee * Hoppi-Copter * Jetson One (eVTOL) * Kamov Ka-50 * Kaman KSA-100 SAVER *Lift Hexa (eVTOL) * McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry *MC ONE (eVTOL) * Mosquito Aviation XE * Nagler-Rolz NR 54 * Revolution Mini-500 *RYSE Recon (eVTOL) * Hiller ROE Rotorcycle *Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 See also * List of ultralight helicopters *List of most-produced rotorcraft This is a list of the most-produced rotorcraft. Production runs typically include variants and licensed production. Aircraft still in production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HZ-1 Aerocycle Flown By Soldier
The HZ-1 Aerocycle, also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer's designation DH-5 Aerocycle, was an American one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction, the HZ-1 was expected to become a standard reconnaissance machine with the United States Army. Although early testing showed that the craft had promise for providing mobility on the Nuclear warfare, atomic battlefield, more extensive evaluation proved that the aircraft was in fact too difficult to control for operation by untrained infantrymen, and after a pair of crashes the project was abandoned. A single model of the craft was put on display. Design and development During the early 1950s, Charles H. Zimmerman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) developed a system for control of a rotorcraft in which, with the rotors mounted on the underside of the aircraft, the machi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle
The Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle (originally designated HOG) was a tiny, single-seat helicopter designed under contract for the United States Navy. in the mid-1950s. It later was redesigned for a U.S. Marine Corps requirement for a small personal helicopter that would fulfill an array of roles, including observation, liaison, small unit tactical maneuvers, and which could be dropped to downed airmen behind enemy lines to facilitate their escape. Development Gyrodyne purchased the assets of Bendix Helicopters in 1949, including the Model 2C coaxial helicopter which provided the technology for the XRON-1. In 1951 the Model 2C was demonstrated to the Navy with shortcomings noted in autorotation control. The XRON-1 was demonstrated under a new Navy contract NOas 55-388-c for a lightweight single man helicopter. Design Gyrodyne's design was an open-framework helicopter with coaxial rotors, which was evaluated with three different power plants (two reciprocating, one turbine). The XRON ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ultralight Helicopters
Ultralight helicopters are classified as ultralight aircraft by the FAA and as Very Light Rotorcraft (VLR) by the EASA. File:AERO Friedrichshafen 2018, Friedrichshafen (1X7A4701).jpg, Curti Zefhir File:Df334.jpg, DF 334 File:Heli-Sport CH-7 Kompress OK-PHA 48, Gliwice 2017.06.03.jpg, Heli-Sport CH-7 File:MosquitoAviationXEL.jpg, Mosquito XE File:Helicycle N727X Flying.JPG, Eagle Helicycle File:Helicóptero Ultraligero.jpg, Dynali H3 File:Volocopter,IAA 2017, Frankfurt (1Y7A1911).jpg, Volocopter 2X File:CC-AGF Rotorway Talon A600 (8185310039).jpg, RotorWay Exec The RotorWay Exec is a family of American two-bladed, skid-equipped, two-seat kit helicopters, manufactured by RotorWay International of Chandler, Arizona and supplied in kit form for amateur-construction. Design and development The Exec 16 ... File:Safari kit helicopter.jpg, Safari Helicopter File:Revolution Mini-500 (8544410560).jpg, Revolution Mini-500 File:CompositeHelicoptersInternationalKC518Adventour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vought-Sikorsky VS-300
The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 (or S-46) is an American single-engine helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky. It had a single three-blade rotor originally powered by a 75 horsepower (56 kW) engine. The first "free" flight of the VS-300 was on 13 May 1940.Munson 1968, p. 111. The VS-300 was the first successful single lifting rotor helicopter in the United States and the first successful helicopter to use a single vertical-plane tail rotor configuration for antitorque. With floats attached, it became the first practical amphibious helicopter. Design and development Igor Sikorsky's quest for a practical helicopter began in 1938, when as the Engineering Manager of the Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation, he was able to convince the directors of United Aircraft that his years of study and research into rotary-wing flight problems would lead to a breakthrough. His first experimental machine, the VS-300, was test flown by Sikorsky on 14 September 1939, tether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiller ROE Rotorcycle
The Hiller ROE Rotorcycle is a single-seat ultralight helicopter designed in 1953 for a military requirement. A total of 12 were produced for the United States Marine Corps. And in 1954, the Hiller Helicopters was selected by the US Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics to build this design of a one-man, foldable, self-rescue and observation helicopter.Hiller Museum: ''Rotocycle'' It featured a two-blade system. Its original empty weight was .Apostolo, p. 68 Development The helicopter folded up and could be carried on a sled-like carrier by two people or could be air-dropped to pilots trapped behind enemy lines. The Marines did not accept the YROE due to it ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolution Mini-500
The Revolution Mini-500 is a 1990s American single-seat light helicopter, designed and built by Revolution Helicopter Corporation as a kit for homebuilding. Revolution Helicopter went out of business in November 1999 and kits are no longer available.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 214. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Development The Mini-500 was designed as a light helicopter that resembles a scaled-down Hughes 500, powered by a Rotax 582 two-stroke engine. The Mini-500 design was initially based upon Augusto Cicaré's control system design as incorporated in his CH-6 prototype helicopter, but company president Dennis Fetters and Cicaré were unable to agree on licensing terms. Fetters instead elected to design and patent a "newly improved control system".Armstrong, Kenneth: ''Choosing Your Homebuilt — the one you will finish and fly! Second Edition'', page 202-205. Butterfield Press, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagler-Rolz NR 54
The Nagler-Rolz NR 54 is a German experimental foldable backpack helicopter developed during World War II. An enlarged variant, the NR 55, was also built. Design and development The NR 54 was developed by Austrian engineers Bruno Nagler and Franz Rolz. The helicopter featured a three-legged Landing gear, undercarriage design and a single seat. The NR 54 V1 prototype featured a Single-blade propeller, single-bladed Helicopter rotor, rotor, while the V2 prototype had a more traditional two-bladed unit. Both prototypes were powered by a piston engines mounted on the rotor blades, with the V1 having a single engine driving two contra-rotating propellers, and the V2 having two single-cylinder variants of the Argus As 8. This configuration eliminated torque, negating the need for a tail rotor. The enlarged NR 55 a proof of concept aircraft based on the configuration of the NR 54 V1 and was powered by a 40 hp engine in an aerodynamic fairing. Operational history The NR 55 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosquito Aviation XE
The Mosquito Aviation XE is a single seat Homebuilt aircraft, homebuilt helicopter. By 2015 Mosquito Aviation was out of business and the design was being produced by Innovator Technologies of Rockyview, Alberta, Canada.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015–16'', page 208. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. By 2019 the design was being produced by Composite FX of Trenton, Florida. Design and development The XE is a development of the Mosquito Air, with a cockpit fairing and a more sophisticated exhaust system, plus a rotor diameter increased by to support the higher gross weight. The aircraft was designed to comply with the US ''Experimental – Amateur-built'' and European microlight aircraft rules. It features a single main rotor and tail rotor, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with a windshield, skid landing gear and a two-cylinder, air-cooled, two stroke MZ 202 engine. The aircraft fuselage is made from composites and metal tubing. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry
The McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry is a 1940s American experimental lightweight helicopter designed and built by McDonnell Aircraft. Development The McDonnell Model 38 was a lightweight experimental helicopter sponsored by the United States Army Air Force to test the concept of using small ramjets at the tips of the rotor blades. As a functional helicopter it was a simple open-frame steel-tube construction. Allotted the military designation XH-20 the first of two first flew on the 29 August 1947. Although the XH-20 flew successfully the ramjets were noisy and burnt a large amount of fuel and plans to build a larger two-seat XH-29 were abandoned. Variants ''Data from:'' U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909 ;Model 38 XH-20 Little Henry :experimental lightweight helicopter, two built. ;Model 79 XH-29 Big Henry :proposed two-seat ramjet-powered development, canceled. Operator ; *United States Air Force Aircraft on display *''46-689'' the first XH-20 is on displ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaman KSA-100 SAVER
__NOTOC__ The Kaman KSA-100 SAVER (Stowable Aircrew Vehicle Escape Rotorseat) is an American aircraft-stowable gyroplane An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), gyroscope, gyrocopter or gyroplane, is a class of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. A gyroplane "means a rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-dr ... escape device designed and built by the Kaman Aerospace Corporation for the United States Navy. Designed to be used in naval combat aircraft to deploy as part of the ejection sequence, only one was built and it did not enter service. It was the first jet-powered gyroplane. Design and development The United States Navy Air Development Center awarded a number of contracts to aerospace companies to find a method for ejected aircrew to escape from the scene of the crash. Kaman proposed a turbofan powered gyroplane it called the Stowable Aircrew Vehicle Escape Rotorseat or SAVER. The SAVER was an aircraft ejection seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamov Ka-50
The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" (, English: kitefin shark), NATO reporting name Hokum A, is a Soviet/Russian single-seat attack helicopter with the distinctive coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995. The Ka-50 is manufactured by the Progress company in Arsenyev. It is used as a heavily armed scout helicopter and has a rescue ejection system, rare for helicopters. During the late 1990s, Kamov and Israel Aerospace Industries developed a tandem-seat cockpit version, the Kamov Ka-50-2 "Erdogan" (, ), to compete in Turkey's attack helicopter competition. Kamov also designed another two-seat variant, the Kamov Ka-52 "Alligator" (, NATO reporting name: Hokum B). The Ka-52's unit cost is US$16 million as of 2023. Development The Ka-50 is the production version of the V-80Sh-1 prototype. Production of the attack helicopter was ordered by the Soviet Council of Ministers on 14 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jetson One
The Jetson ONE is a type of personal ultralight known as an eVTOL. It is a 102-horsepower battery-operated ultralight with eight electric motors. A Polish startup company, Jetson, produces the personal ultralight, which is manufactured and tested in Arezzo, Italy. To fly the single-seat ultralight, the operator does not need a pilot licence or special training in the US. It is equipped with a parachute. Background Late 2017, Tomasz Patan built a working "proof of concept" of an electric VTOL personal flying vehicle with the goal of "making everyone a pilot." In 2018, Patan designed a personal flying car. The design was improved, and in 2021, Patan invented a new model called the Jetson ONE eVTOL. In 2022, the company offered the Jetson Ones for US$92,000 each. In 2022, the company began manufacturing the Jetson One in Poland. In 2022, the company moved production and testing of the Jetson ONE from Poland to a facility in Arezzo, Italy. The company's CEO is Stephan D'haene, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
