Small Helicopter ID needed...

Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:17 pm

I don't think this is a Warbird...just painted kinda like one...

Best guess is that it was taken somewhere in North Texas @ 20 years ago...

Gary is this like the frame you have???

Thanks for any help!

Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:30 pm

Don't know what that thing is, Zane, but it's not the same as mine.

The one I have here was based on OH-58 (Jet Ranger) parts. The engine, transmission, rotor blades, etc. were already taken off when I got the thing. However, it still retains the vertical fin, tail boom, and skids from the OH-58, so maybe some museum could use them or something. I'd love to find a picture of it when it flew (supposedly, only once). The N number was N2056B, which has since been reassigned.

Gary

Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:47 pm

Well darn, I was thinking it was going the black helicopter that has been rumored to be hovering over gary's house. (with a big CAF sticker on the side!)

Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:02 pm

Enemy Ace wrote:Well darn, I was thinking it was going the black helicopter that has been rumored to be hovering over gary's house. (with a big CAF sticker on the side!)

HA! That's the weirdest thing.......I heard a helicopter, but saw nothing. Well....nothing but a hideous freakin' tramp-stamp that said CAF...but no helicopter. Must've been a stealth. :lol:

Gary

Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:33 pm

It is the French Djinn made by SO (in the 1950s). The US military had some for trials. It expelled air from the rotor tips so didn't need a tail rotor. A number were used as crop-sprayers on this side of the pond.

Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:42 pm

Glyn wrote:It is the French Djinn made by SO (in the 1950s). The US military had some for trials. It expelled air from the rotor tips so didn't need a tail rotor. A number were used as crop-sprayers on this side of the pond.

Interesting indeed. Seeing how I'm too lazy to perform a Google search right now, do you (or anyone else) have pictures of a flying one they could post? How did the rotors "expel air" from the rotor tips?

Gary

Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:55 pm

Here ya go, Retro...
www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/snias_jinn.php

Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:59 pm

retroaviation wrote:HA! That's the weirdest thing.......I heard a helicopter, but saw nothing. Well....nothing but a hideous freakin' tramp-stamp that said CAF...but no helicopter. Must've been a stealth.

Gary

They don't call it the "Ghost" squadron without reason, eh? :wink:

Ryan

Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:12 pm

Neat stuff y'all. Thanks for that info.

Gary

Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:52 pm

Glyn wrote:It is the French Djinn made by SO (in the 1950s). The US military had some for trials. It expelled air from the rotor tips so didn't need a tail rotor. A number were used as crop-sprayers on this side of the pond.

Thanks!

That's a funky little machine.

Now I wonder what the ID was of this machine....the plot thickens!

Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:50 am

Too late for the answer to be useful, but here are some images of the Djinn.

Several saw service in Latin America.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... 2&aq=f&oq=

Saludos,

Tulio

Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:08 am

For more on 'cold cycle' rotor thrust, GOOGLE MONTE-COPTER. monte Copter was the local shyster fund raising scam in aviation around Seattle for nearly 25 years, it was always 'just about ready to fly'. Lots of folks in the long time aviation community around the Seattle area still have shoe boxes full of worthless stock certificates from MC. It even appears for a couple of years in the early 60's in JANES