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The Baumgärtl PB-60 was a 1940s experimental single-seat
rotor kite
A rotor kite or gyrokite is an unpowered, rotary-wing aircraft. Like an autogyro or helicopter, it relies on lift created by one or more sets of rotors in order to fly. Unlike a helicopter, gyrokites and rotor kites do not have an engine poweri ...
designed and built by Austrian designer
Paul Baumgartl for the Brazilian Air Ministry.
The PB-60 was unpowered and had to be towed to become airborne and fly.
It had a fixed
tricycle landing gear
Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or ''landing gear'', arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has a single nose wheel in the front, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Tricycle g ...
with a simple unpowered two-blade rotor.
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Abandoned military aircraft projects of Brazil
Aircraft first flown in 1948
1940s Brazilian helicopters
1940s Brazilian experimental aircraft
Rotor kites
PB-60
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