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Old 27th August 2001 | 04:55
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Arm out the window
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Slightly off the topic, the great photo links listed above by some of the contributors put me in mind of a spectacular contraption that the Americans put together quite some time ago.

It had the front ends of 4 single-rotor helicopters positioned at the corners of a large square lifting frame.
As I remember (saw a photo of it somewhere) it had four pilots all setting power on command from the chief pilot who was sitting in one of the airframes.

A brave effort to come up with a heavy lift machine, but too many problems to be successful, I think.

Does anyone have links to pictures/information about this machine, whatever it was?

Thanks.
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