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The Baumgärtl PB-64 was a 1950s single-seat
helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...
designed and built by the Austrian-designer
Paul Baumgärtl
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for the Brazilian Air Ministry.
The PB-64 had an unusual rotor drive with two lightweight pulse jets mounted on the rotor, although not on the tips of the blades which was more normal.
The engines were mounted at each end of a bar, at right-angles to the main rotor which also acted as a stabilizer bar.
The main structure was a simple keel with a
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 ...
and an open seat for the pilot and a rudder on a simple tail boom.
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1950s Brazilian civil utility aircraft
1950s Brazilian helicopters
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