EMG-300
Role Tip jet helicopter
Designer Eugene Michael Gluhareff
Retired 1994
Number built 1

The Gluhareff EMG-300 is a single-seat helicopter with a rotor powered by tip jet engines. It was designed and built by Eugene Michael Gluhareff in the 1990s. Although some test flights took place, Gluhareff died in 1994 before development was completed.[1][2]

The helicopter has a two-blade rotor; each blade has a Gluhareff Pressure Jet engine mounted on its tip. Only one was built; it is now in the collection of the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "GLUHAREFF EMG-300". www.pimaair.org. Pima Air & Space Museum. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ^ Barrett, Ronald; Gluhareff, Irina (January 2008). Gluhareff Pressure Jet Engine: Past, Present and Future (PDF). 46th AIAA Aerospaces Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. Reno, Nevada. pp. 1–9. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
Categories