PB-64 | |
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Role | Single-seat lightweight helicopter |
National origin | Brazil |
Manufacturer | Fábrica do Galeão |
Designer | Paul Baumgärtl |
First flight | 1950s |
The Baumgärtl PB-64 was a 1950s single-seat helicopter designed and built by the Austrian-designer Paul Baumgärtl for the Brazilian Air Ministry.[1] The PB-64 had an unusual rotor drive with two lightweight pulse jets mounted on the rotor, although not on the tips of the blades which was more normal.[1] The engines were mounted at each end of a bar, at right-angles to the main rotor which also acted as a stabilizer bar.[1] The main structure was a simple keel with a tricycle landing gear and an open seat for the pilot and a rudder on a simple tail boom.[1]
Data from [1] The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft
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