UK Helicopter & Convertiplane Competition of 1923/24 & 1926

[hesham]

Hi,

In this contest and as my dear Schneiderman said,about 34 proposals submitted to it,here is a helicopter/convertiplane Project,subscribed
and created by the designer Stanley Y. Beach.

 

[Schneiderman]

Stanley Yale Beach, an associate of Gustave Whitehead. Oh dear, oh dear

 

[hesham]

Stanley Yale Beach, an associate of Gustave Whitehead. Oh dear, oh dear

OK my dear Schneiderman,

and here is anther competitor,Mr. E. D. Haworth.

 

[hesham]

Also from, ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT HANDBOOKS AND HISTORY VOLUME 13,

Mr. A. J. Mawbey designed a convertiplane in 1925,Project.

 

[hesham]

From Helicopters Before Helicopters,

here is a four tenders to this contest,the first one I spoke about it before;

1- C. H. Keefer
2- A. C. W. Begg
3- M. Hollander
4- Angew Larsen

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Mr. Jacon Noeggerath submitted a proposal in this contest.

US1786545A - Aeroplane for horizontal and vertical flight - Google Patents

 

[hesham]

From the book, Helicopters before Helicopters,

so weird,the M.B. Bleeker prototype was not built,could it was SX-5-1 or anther design ?.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is anther competitor,Mr. C. Q. Payne.

 

[hesham]

From, Special Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft,

some competitors,with some details;

- E. R. Johnson,A.C.W. Begg,Purton,V. E. Brown,B. T. Buckley,F De
Grosse,Fitzgerald,A. S. Ford,C. J. Moller,N. S. Muir,J. R. Porter,H.
Pittner,A Pusterla,F. Samide,C, Scotter,G. Spurgeon,J. W. Waite &
Col Turner-Clarke and H. P. Wheeldon

 

[ursrius]

From, Special Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft,

some competitors,with some details;

- E. R. Johnson,A.C.W. Begg,Purton,V. E. Brown,B. T. Buckley,F De
Grosse,Fitzgerald,A. S. Ford,C. J. Moller,N. S. Muir,J. R. Porter,H.
Pittner,A Pusterla,F. Samide,C, Scotter,G. Spurgeon,J. W. Waite &
Col Turner-Clarke and H. P. Wheeldon

Hesham, what are "Special Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft" and "Helicopters before Helicopters" - books, I presume. Can you give fuller details of these (author, publisher etc.)

 

[Apophenia]

Hesham, what are "Special Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft" and "Helicopters before Helicopters" - books, I presume. Can you give fuller details of these (author, publisher etc.)

Both were penned by aeronautical engineer Gene Liberatore.
-- https://vertipedia.vtol.org/biographies/getBiography/biographyID/63

Liberatore, E.K., Special Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft – Rotary Wing Aircraft Handbooks and History, US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, 1954

Liberatore, E.K., Helicopters Before Helicopters, Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL, 1998
-- https://archive.org/details/helicoptersbefor0000libe

Helicopters Before Helicopters was his summary of decades worth of Liberatore's own articles on helicopter development.

 

[hesham]

Hesham, what are "Special Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft" and "Helicopters before Helicopters" - books, I presume. Can you give fuller details of these (author, publisher etc.)

My dear Apophenia beat me to it.

 

[ursrius]

My dear Apophenia beat me to it.

Thanks, Hesham, Apophenia, Schneiderman. Amazing - 60 years of studying British aviation, and I had never come across this competition. There's always more to learn!!!

 

[hesham]

Thanks, Hesham, Apophenia, Schneiderman. Amazing - 60 years of studying British aviation, and I had never come across this competition. There's always more to learn!!!

My dear Ursrius,

I hope that,you will complete your site,because many entries haven't descriptions,
it's very intereseting,

Companies A-Z

 

[Apophenia]

... I hope that,you will complete your site...

And what a monumental site it is! Many thanks for your work.

 

[ursrius]

Many thanks. I hope I can get near the end, it all takes a lot of time, and I'm not getting any younger! I think I am going to change tack for a while and just concentrate on the smaller companies. That is typically much quicker, and it will at least look like I am making progress!! That will mean, in the forthcoming releases, no de Havilland, English Electric, Fairey, Hawker etc.
Of course, the core of any entry comes from the "standard" published sources, but they need, as far as I can go, checking and re-checking, addition of further details etc. etc.....and the years go by!

Continuing on the current thread (which, or course, has given me new entries to consider!), we have the following British entries:

British Helicopter Co. (Purton and Purton)
C. M. Brune
E. T. Buckley
F. F. Greenaway
E. D. Haworth
B. L. V. Kay
A. J. Mawbey
N. S. Muir
J. R. Porter
F. Samide
W. Scotter
G. Spurgeon and Chapman
J. R. Vernon-Venables
W. Waite and Col. Tumer-Clarke
J. Westaway and J. Westaway and Skelt
H. P. Wheeldon

British Helicopter Co. (Purton and Purton) I already have from their Itford Light Aeroplane Competition of 1922 entry - this was presumably the same, or a modified version thereof. Buckley, Hayworth and Samide have brief descriptions given above, and Porter is quite well described, but who were they? And as for the others? I am also having no luck coming up with the given patents (I am never good at searching Espacenet - always seem to get the parameters wrong). Any help?