Our heavyweight helicopter equal in the world does not have
In Rostov started production of the most load-lifting rotary-wing car The Russian holding «Helicopt[...]
The need for an alternative
Attempts to build really large piston-engined aircraft were thwarted by the lack of power. The Bristol Brabazon (Fig. 6.16), which had eight large engines coupled in pairs through massive gearboxes to contra-rotating propellers, was a good example of the impractical result of such attempts. Imagine changing the sparking plugs on that lot! It was designed to carry around a mere
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100 passengers; rather less than a typical modern small feeder-liner such as the BAe 146 (Fig. 6.26).
