Fairey Rotodyne

Cool aircraft and cool name!

But there's no "helpfull" issue this would solve in "today's market".

Vertical takeoff and landing never has been and never will be necessary for civilian airline flight, airports work just fine.

This would make a cool private transport though! Sign me up!

The problem with this is that it was British, and built at a time of defence cuts that put all the development costs onto the developers. A big order from the US for 200 never eventuated due to the cost of the Vietnam war iirc, so development was cancelled. What really peeves me is that instead of putting the protypes into an aircraft museum, they were scapped, so these vids are all we have today of this remarkable craft. Imagine it built today with modern materials, fast and safe transport.

Gas was bled off from the turbines and fed to tip jets on the rotorblades - no torque problems which is why it had no tail rotor. After take off, I believe it flew mainly on it's wings and the rotor rotated like an autogyro. On approach to landing, the tip jets were powered up and it made a helicopter style landing. Somehow, it wasn't taken up by any operators although it seems totally plausable and contemporary now. It was brain shatteringly loud on take off if you were outside apparently.

I used to work in a hanger at White Waltham UK, building car assembly automation some 38 years ago. The rotadyne heli-lift blades were stored in the roof of the building. I also supposed the Rotadyne was stored there.

Grate design !!!
Is very sad that such projects like Fairy Rotordyne and Kamov Ka-22 was closed.
May be todays rotorcraft world would looking very diferent.