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Old 18th Apr 2005, 18:49
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I was admiring the Sikorsky VS300 at the Henry Ford museum last week and was surprised to note that the rotors turned the "French" way , something that was not continued with the later R4 and subsequent Sikorsky models. I wonder what made him change his mind?

VS300 is an exceptionally neat piece of engineering, not an ounce of excess weight and made for development from the start, you can see all the control run adjustment features designed into it to allow easy handling and response refinement during its initial development phase. Must have been fun to fly, I walked away wishing I had one!

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