An intermeshing-rotor helicopter (or synchropter) is a helicopter with a set of two main rotors turning in opposite directions, with each rotor mast mounted...
4 KB (350 words) - 22:24, 23 July 2023
(1952) Coaxial-rotor aircraft Intermeshing-rotor helicopter Rotorcraft Tiltrotor Transverse-rotor aircraft "FM 1-514 CHPTR 3 - Rotor System Operation"...
5 KB (599 words) - 18:59, 14 January 2025
On a helicopter, the main rotor or rotor system is the combination of several rotary wings (rotor blades) with a control system, that generates the aerodynamic...
56 KB (6,871 words) - 20:14, 23 April 2025
The tail rotor is a smaller rotor mounted vertically or near-vertically at the tail of a traditional single-rotor helicopter, where it rotates to generate...
11 KB (1,552 words) - 02:28, 19 April 2025
Commons has media related to Transverse-rotor helicopters. Coaxial rotors Intermeshing rotors Rotorcraft Tandem rotors Tiltrotor El-Sayed 2024, p. 241. El-Sayed...
3 KB (288 words) - 14:02, 30 October 2024
Aerocar Mars helicopter Ingenuity (2021) Intermeshing rotors Contra-rotating propellers Tandem rotors Transverse rotors Mars helicopter Ingenuity Leishman...
12 KB (1,387 words) - 23:25, 29 May 2025
Rotorcraft (redirect from Canard Rotor/Wing)
Transverse – Side by side. Coaxial – One rotor disc above the other, with concentric drive shafts. Intermeshing – Twin rotors at an acute angle from each other...
13 KB (1,517 words) - 23:39, 17 April 2025
Flettner Fl 282 (category Helicopter history)
The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) is a single-seat intermeshing rotor helicopter, or synchropter, produced by Anton Flettner of Germany. According...
14 KB (1,528 words) - 20:09, 9 February 2025
rotor can refer to the following kinds of aircraft, all of which have two rotors arranged in various ways: Coaxial-rotor aircraft Intermeshing-rotor helicopter...
251 bytes (64 words) - 15:57, 22 January 2025
model helicopters had used them. Coaxial rotors are two counter-rotating rotors mounted one above the other with the same axis. Intermeshing rotors are...
113 KB (12,235 words) - 14:23, 19 June 2025
Multirotor (redirect from Multi-rotor)
Coaxial rotors Cyclorotor Intermeshing rotors Tail rotor Tandem rotors Transverse rotors de Bothezat helicopter - an American four-rotor helicopter that...
7 KB (692 words) - 14:00, 26 May 2025
Sikorsky S-97 Raider (category Coaxial rotor helicopters)
high-speed scout and attack compound helicopter based on the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) with a coaxial rotor system under development by Sikorsky Aircraft...
26 KB (2,389 words) - 18:00, 4 May 2025
manned helicopters. Emile Berliner, an inventor famous for his invention of the flat gramophone record, had experimented with intermeshing helicopters as...
14 KB (1,150 words) - 19:44, 10 February 2025
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight (redirect from Columbia Helicopters 107)
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is an American medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft engines. It was designed by Vertol...
84 KB (9,005 words) - 05:36, 24 June 2025
Kaman K-MAX (category 1990s United States helicopters)
The Kaman K-MAX (company designation K-1200) is a helicopter with intermeshing rotors (synchropter) designed and produced by the American manufacturer...
59 KB (5,227 words) - 14:08, 15 June 2025
NOTAR (category Helicopter components)
helicopter Coaxial rotors Fenestron Intermeshing rotors (synchropter) Tandem rotors Transverse rotors Multirotors Quadrotors Tiltrotors Tip jet rotor...
6 KB (737 words) - 05:07, 9 January 2025
McCulloch MC-4 (category Tandem rotor helicopters)
The McCulloch Model MC-4 was an American tandem-rotor helicopter and was the first helicopter developed by McCulloch Aircraft Corporation, a division...
6 KB (698 words) - 03:05, 7 June 2025
Kaman HH-43 Huskie (category Aerial firefighting helicopters)
Kaman Aircraft. It is perhaps most distinctive for its use of twin intermeshing rotors, having been largely designed by the German aeronautical engineer...
46 KB (4,988 words) - 07:17, 31 March 2025
testbed for Messerschmitt Me 163 Flettner Fl 265 Germany 1939 6 intermesh rotor helicopter Göppingen Gö 9 Germany 1941 1 tail mounted propeller testbed Handley...
98 KB (974 words) - 15:17, 24 June 2025
SNCAC NC.2001 Abeille (category 1940s French helicopters)
SNCAC NC.2001 Abeille (English: Bee) was a single engine, twin intermeshing rotor helicopter designed and built in France in the late 1940s. Three were completed...
6 KB (557 words) - 11:40, 30 October 2024
design for improving low-airspeed maneuverability Intermeshing rotors – Helicopter with two rotors turning in opposite directionsPages displaying short...
6 KB (522 words) - 03:59, 14 November 2024
Kellett XR-10 (category 1940s United States helicopters)
general layout that the company was developing in the XR-8, with twin intermeshing rotors, and was accepted by the Air Force on 16 October over proposals by...
5 KB (432 words) - 16:55, 17 March 2023
Some helicopters use contra-rotating coaxial rotors mounted one above the other. The H-43 Huskie helicopter uses non-coaxial intermeshing rotors turning...
3 KB (324 words) - 17:53, 15 March 2025
twin-lift rotor synchropter, addressed the problem of torque compensation as the first helicopter with intermeshing rotors (Flettner double rotor). During...
22 KB (1,976 words) - 20:33, 24 February 2025
Flettner Fl 265 (category Helicopter history)
safest helicopter of its time. In contrast to the Fl 185, the Fl 265, believed to be the pioneering example of a synchropter, had two intermeshing rotors 12 m...
4 KB (393 words) - 00:46, 20 June 2025
Kaman Corporation (category Helicopter manufacturers of the United States)
Navy service. August 1994 K-1200 K-MAX — a purpose-built helicopter with intermeshing rotors specializing in external load operations. November 1998 The...
15 KB (1,456 words) - 13:42, 12 June 2025
De Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle (category Coaxial rotor helicopters)
pitching motion, but rotor-tip clearance was always sufficient. The inability to determine the precise cause of the intermeshing, combined with the fact...
17 KB (1,590 words) - 19:35, 13 February 2025
List of active United States military aircraft (redirect from List of currently active United States military helicopters)
2023, p. 145. Losey, Stephen (6 August 2024). "First Huey replacement helicopter delivered to US Air Force". Defense News. Retrieved 8 August 2024. "MQ-9...
67 KB (1,755 words) - 23:30, 21 June 2025
Kellett XR-8 (category 1940s United States helicopters)
was a helicopter built in the United States during World War II. It was a two-seat machine intended to demonstrate the feasibility of a twin-rotor system...
7 KB (801 words) - 03:05, 19 June 2025
Kaman K-225 (category Helicopter history)
turbine-powered helicopter. The K-125 was Charles Kaman's first helicopter, which utilized intermeshing rotors and Kaman's patented servo-flap stability control. The...
6 KB (523 words) - 20:19, 9 February 2025