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Old 2nd Nov 2017, 17:07
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Heathrow Harry
 
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The Rotodyne cruised at 180 kt and had a range of 450 miles - assume that a modern version could do better on range - but not on speed due to the rotor (which provided half the lift in autogyro mode)

So where could you use it? London - Paris you'd be up against the Eurostar and in th erest of Yurop the TGV and similar

Even if it was a lot quieter than the prototype it would still be noisy so you could never run it from a location close to housing - somewhere like Docklands would be OK but then you have to add in the ground transport time v. a city centre to city centre train - and you'd still have modern security checks as well
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