The Platt-LePage XR-1, also known by the company designation PL-3, is an early American transverse rotors helicopter, built by the Platt-LePage Aircraft...
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engineer, Platt-Lepage set to work developing the helicopter, using a similar rotor arrangement to that of the Fa 61. The aircraft, designated XR-1, flew...
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indicate USAF. Possibly it was meant to be USAAF (U.S. Army Air Force). "Platt-LePage XR-1 | National Air and Space Museum". Retrieved 2024-02-03. "Sikorsky...
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Sikorsky R-4 (redirect from Sikorsky XR-4)
role, configuration, and era Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Flettner Fl 282 Platt-LePage XR-1 Notes "Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly". National Museum of the United States...
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Frank Piasecki (category Pages with Polish IPA)
New York University. He was employed by the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company as a control engineer on their XR-1 twin-rotor project. In 1940, he formed PV...
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USAAF, US Navy and US Coast Guard Kellett KD-1 (La Cierva C.30A) (general use Autogyro) Platt-LePage XR-1 (experimental helicopter) Sikorsky R-4B "Hoverfly"...
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Landgraf H-2 (1944) McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway (1946) Mil Mi-12 (1967) Platt-LePage XR-1 (1941) AgustaWestland AW609 Bell Eagle Eye Bell XV-3 Bell XV-15 Bell...
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the XR-8, with twin intermeshing rotors, and was accepted by the Air Force on 16 October over proposals by Sikorsky, Bell, and Platt-LePage. The XR-10...
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Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache (redirect from Avia VR-1)
comparable role, configuration, and era Bratukhin Omega Flettner Fl 282 Platt-LePage XR-1 Sikorsky R-4 Related lists List of rotorcraft used in World War II...
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McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway (redirect from Platt-Le Page PL-9)
designated XHJD-1; shortly after flying it was re-designated the XHJH-1. It was derived from the single-engined, twin rotor Platt-LePage XR-1. James McDonnell...
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