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[P51vsFw190]

Liteco Hydrogen Peroxide powered helicopter.

Quite the strange bird.......

Powered by Hydrogen Peroxide tip jets on the end of the rotor blades.

If my memory serves me right, they were embroiled in a lawsuit about rotor blades or something like that.

There is a great article about it on Wired.
https://www.wired.com/2010/08/one-man-rocket-powered-helicopter-emits-only-water/


James

[Unca-Fester]

Well I was also hoping for the name  the Dragonfly DF1 but you're correct.

[P51vsFw190]

I’m being a bit evil today so here you go:



Sorry for being a bit devious.


James

[SAS~Storebror]

Quest solved?

[BalDaddy]

No Mike, it's not a 'Statson' (Stetson you mean?) but a Fedora, also known as an F-35

[SAS~Ghost129er]

No Mike, it's not a 'Statson' (Stetson you mean?) but a Fedora, also known as an F-35

Well at least that makes me safe from Mike's gunfire on the SAS server THIS time... Hopefully... Maybe... 

[sniperton]

Said to be Jess Dixon's flying automobile c. 1940.

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/17346

[P51vsFw190]

That’s correct!

It was also known as the “Flying Ginny”.

Sniperton, you're up!



James

[Unca-Fester]

I’m being a bit evil today so here you go:



Sorry for being a bit devious.


James

Nope quite alright.   I'm looking at the engine on the counter-rotating micro 'copter and it looks like an old Wisconsin V4 industrial engine?

[SAS~Storebror]

No Mike, it's not a 'Statson' (Stetson you mean?) but a Fedora, also known as an F-35

Nice catch, yes indeed, that's the F-35 and indeed the "a" is a typo.
Quest solved.

Cheers!
Mike

[Unca-Fester]

Ah it's an old L-head Conti A40.  Only 40 h.p. and it was able to go 100 mph?  Is this possible?

 The AS315 Lama has a 450 shaft hp turbine and can only just make about 100-110 knots forward.

[sniperton]

To make it a bit more difficult, I show here the frontal view only: