Wierd Helicopter

[flickme]

I was watchin this show about loggers on the history channel and saw this wierd lookin chopper they used for liffing logs. So i googled it and this is waht i found. It uses an intermeshing rotor system which is new to me.
http://www.helispot.com/images/00824.jpg
http://www.helispot.com/images/01291.jpg
Theyre made by Superior Helicopters. Funky lookin.
Some better pics here.
http://www.superiorhelicopter.com/helicopters/

[Jack Mehoff]

Pimp ride

[spectre5]

Hmm, didn't germans invent that in ww2? Or so I remember.

[Herrmannek]

Very nice...I like its more than coaxial rotors :)

[perdurabo]

Kaman flying crane

[Gauntlet]

I've seen this version of a chopper before. They were being invented by German engineers in WWII.

[Colt45]

I own 4 of them

[JiJoMacLE45]

That looks just like the one that follows me around all day, except the one that trails me is black.

[Burncycle]

This helicopter was not invented (or in the process of being invented) in WWII :bash: This particular design is fairly recent.

Maybe you mean they were working on a similar system (the intermeshing rotor system), but certainly not this helicopter.

Several helicopters have used this system in the past, one being the HH-43 Husky (also by Kaman I think)

[vryhpyammoadded]

One of my fav helo sites...

http://avia.russian.ee/index.html

Examples of Kaman intermesh helos including the one shown. Kaman was big on this format.
http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/kaman.html


German WWII Intermesh helo
http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/flettner_kolibri-r.html
http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/foto/flettner_kolibri-s.gif

http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/foto/kaman_huskie_1.jpg
Kaman Huskie