Hughes XV-9A and Related Hot Cycle Projects

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Article on Hughes Hot Cycle from Data journal October 1967

https://archive.org/details/sim_data_1967-10_12_10

 

[Orionblamblam]

The *actual* painting of the Hughes Hot Cycle Rotor Wing vehicle is now off the ebay market...

 

[hesham]

The *actual* painting of the Hughes Hot Cycle Rotor Wing vehicle is now off the ebay market...

I think that,I have a one also from another source.

 

[Kiltonge]

Av Week, 28 February 1966. Models of the hot-cycle flying crane and compound. Also a painting of a commercial Jet Heli-bus project with exterior doors for each row of seats, with the intriguing option of doubling the passenger load in a "semi-seated configuration" on "choirboy seats".

 

[dan_inbox]

WTF is a choirboy seat ? Sitting on the lap of the priest to save room ?

 

[Arjen]

 

[hesham]

Av Week, 28 February 1966. Models of the hot-cycle flying crane and compound. Also a painting of a commercial Jet Heli-bus project with exterior doors for each row of seats, with the intriguing option of doubling the passenger load in a "semi-seated configuration" on "choirboy seats".

I sent them before,here;

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/hughes-helicopter-prototypes-projects.16665/

 

[ZacYates]

For fellow fans of the Model 385/ XV-9A, this is from a comment from "Vern" on Aviastar back in 2010:

Re what happened to the Hughes XV-9A Hot Cycle Helicopter

During my USAF career, I received an invitation for the �dedication� of the Hughes XV-9A to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC on May 6, 1970. In the course of trying to ascertain where the A /C was, I searched the Smithsonian website and did not find it in their inventory. Subsequently I received a response from the Smithsonian Aeronautics Division regarding the history of the �dedication�.

The aircraft was scheduled for delivery to the Smithsonian collection in May 1967 but actually arrived in August. It was shipped via railcar from Ft. Eustis and arrived as a wreck, which was not the Smithsonian's understanding of the aircraft's condition. The cockpit had been picked clean and there were multiple holes in the fuselage. Smithsonian correspondence does not make clear how much of this was due to improper handling and security by the railroad and how much was due to inadequate storage by the Army.

As it turns out my invitation is not related to the actual full size aircraft airframe that was never publicly displayed, but rather to a fairly small scale model (which is now on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center).

The net result was that at some point in the early seventies, the aircraft was deemed beyond reasonable restoration and scrapped. The Smithsonian did retain most of one of the hot cycle blades and it is still in storage at their facility in Suitland.

So there we have it: all that remains of this unique machine is one rotor blade. To the Smithsonian of the early 1970s I would like to quote King Arthur from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: you make me sad.

 

[RAP]

1966 Air Progress cover, nice illustration.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...-wing-resin-model-by-hughes-t-19-c-2734cd9bae

 

[hesham]

Maybe it was not generic design and real one;

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/290286.pdf

The link is died,but that's working,

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0290286.pdf

 

[Stargazer]

The Hughes 350 project from a period publication:

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is Hughes Model or H-350;

http://www.nevadamusic.com/?page_id=1901

We have it here ?.

 

[hesham]

From Aviation Week 24-6-1968.

 

[allysonca]

OK my dear Pundits, here is a good one one for you. A friend got this for a buy it now on EPay for 40 bucks including freight....... yeah, I know!!! I'm thinking Fairchild but open to suggestions. Anyone?

 

[Stargazer]

OK my dear Pundits, here is a good one one for you. A friend got this for a buy it now on EPay for 40 bucks including freight....... yeah, I know!!! I'm thinking Fairchild but open to suggestions. Anyone?

Sweet! 40 bucks shipping included??? Does that kind of deal even EXIST nowadays? I'm shocked!

Anyway, Fairchild seems as good a bet as any. We're talking XHR competition here, right? So 1951. The company had several pi-tail designs in that era, and they also had a helicopter division at the time called American Helicopter.

 

[hesham]

OK my dear Pundits, here is a good one one for you. A friend got this for a buy it now on EPay for 40 bucks including freight....... yeah, I know!!! I'm thinking Fairchild but open to suggestions. Anyone?

That's Hughes stile,

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...d-related-hot-cycle-projects.4875/#post-38601

 

[hesham]

Also.

 

[hesham]

Of course it was not related to this competition,it's from 1962.

 

[allysonca]

BINGO!

 

[hesham]

Oh! So if it's Hot Cycle, it's not in the proper thread at all! We're talking 1950-51 here, and the Hughes Hot Cycle designs came over a decade later than that.

The file itself,we can transfer this part to a proper topic.

 

[hesham]

From Interavia 1966/3

 

[hesham]

From Interavia 1967/10

 

[hesham]

Please note the differences between the shapes of rotor,

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0673964.pdf

 

[Training_Dummy]

Oh man this thread takes me back. Hughes, McD and Boeing all burned precious capital on this concept.

 

[hesham]

I found a report on DTIC,spoke about Hughes Model-285,


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/621684.pdf

Also to proof,it was called Model-285,

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0290212.pdf