Identify a Homebuilt?
Back in the '70s there was a homebuilt helicopter displayed outside a car breaker's yard on the road between Shepperton and Lower Sunbury-on-Thames.
It was single seat, two bladed, used a Triumph twin motorbike engine and a Sunbeam S7/8 rear hub featured somewhere in it, I'd originally thought t/r gearbox but it would be far too heavy so maybe m/r gbox, a deck to overhead screen from bent perspex sheet in two or three triangular "gores" and a skeleton or tubular tail boom, so general layout was a bit similar to a Bell 47.
It was in poor state by then and disappeared in the late 70s/very early 80s. I believe it was locally built but never heard if it flew. From it's condition (rotten wooden blades) it must have been built in the 60s or perhaps even earlier.
Anyone know more about it, or what it was, or a resource listing such exotica?
Last edited by Agaricus bisporus; 21st December 2010 at 01:08.