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  • Last flight of 6-story Roton forced to abort

    05/11/2003 7:23:26 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 21 replies · 346+ views
    Antelope Valley Press ^ | May 11, 2003 | ALLISON GATLIN
    It was to be "The Last Flight of the Roton," but the flight was not nearly as long as organizers hoped. The last vestige of an attempt to create a low-cost space-launch system, the Roton ATV was headed from its birthplace at the Mojave Airport for display at Classic Rotors, a helicopter museum located at the Ramona Airport. But like many flight experiments before it, this one ended in disappointment Saturday morning. The effort to carry the six-story, cone-shaped vehicle, created by Rotary Rocket, beneath an Army helicopter ran into unexpected difficulties once airborne and the two never left the...