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New technology?


18 posted on 04/26/2011 1:41:26 PM PDT by McGruff (When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
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I saw the Sikorsky helicopters in 1944-45 in Conn. I called them ``Big Bugs``


20 posted on 04/26/2011 2:06:12 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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That looks like an early Kaman “Eggbeater”, two rotor masts set at a slight angle to each other with the blades intermeshing.

The Sikorsky’s have both counter-rotating rotors on co-axial masts.


24 posted on 04/26/2011 4:36:35 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
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