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boxkite
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Napier Agricopter / Napier-Pan Britannica Agricultural Gyroplane
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March 18, 2008, 02:05:09 pm »
For the friends of small helicopters - the
Napier "
Agrocopter
"
(from "
aero
" magazine 10/1961). Never heard of a helicopter company with this name - any connection/relation to the
Napier
engine manufacturer? I don't believe.
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steelpillow
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Re: Napier Agricopter / Napier-Pan Britannica Agricultural Gyroplane
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February 05, 2019, 12:02:12 pm »
Napier the engine company did produce aircraft designs from time to time. In 1959 they tendered the "Seahorse" anti-submarine missile, see
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,25507.msg259183.html#msg259183
The Agrocopter looks like an autogyro to me, after the classic Bensen/Wallis pattern. It could well have been by the usual Napier engine Co. but I can find no other reference to prove it either way.
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Re: Napier Agricopter / Napier-Pan Britannica Agricultural Gyroplane
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February 05, 2019, 01:38:23 pm »
They got the name slightly wrong ... G-21-3 was a prototype Napier
Agr
i
copter
, derived from the Bensen B.SM (B.SMEJ)
Gyrocopter
. Also known as the Napier-Pan Britannica
Agricultural Gyroplane
and the Napier-Benson
Gyrocopter
.
Three
Agricopter
s were built in 1961 (likely all at Luton): G-29-2, G-29-3, and G-29-4.
http://www.nwamuseum.co.uk/AIRCRAFT%20MANUFACTURE-1.pdf
Aircraft Manufacture in West Essex
, North Weald Airfield Museum , 2010, pp.11-12
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Re: Napier Agricopter / Napier-Pan Britannica Agricultural Gyroplane
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February 06, 2019, 02:23:34 am »
Nice find, thanks.
Should this topic perhaps be renamed "Napier Agricopter", "Napier-Pan Britannica Agricultural Gyroplane", or "Napier-Bensen B8" (after the registration details of G-ATWT), or what?
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