Apr 272009
Yeah, an atomic chopper. No idea how serious this was, but it was apparently granted the “development” number of D-1007. Dates from 1960; 300 feet long, 200 mph top speed, 500,000 pounds. No further data, though it looks as if the reactor must have gone in the extreme tail.
Atomic helicopters. Now those were the freakin’ days…
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That is just……. Awesome!
I don’t know if you can get a rotorblade that big going through the air at 200 mph without the ends of the advancing side going supersonic.
The glass nose gives it a distinctly Russian look.
What would you charge to knock out a 3-view from that shot?
> I don’t know if you can get a rotorblade that big going through the air at 200 mph without the ends of the advancing side going supersonic.
There’s always a catch…
> What would you charge to knock out a 3-view from that shot?
One hundred BILLION dollars.
Bit higher than I anticipated. Ah well…
I’ll probably slap together a drawing of it just for giggles anyway. Not exactly in the mood for something as cheery and lighthearted as drafting at the moment, but eventually…
“D” stood for Design. Bell Helicopter engineering assigned D numbers fairly liberally. A Model number had to be approved by the President and were much harder to come by.