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The Kharkov KhAI-24 was a 1960s
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
two-seat
autogyro
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designed by the
Kharkiv Aviation Institute.
Design and development
The KhAI-24 was designed by students of the
Kharkiv Aviation Institute for an
Estonian Ministry for the Energy Industry competition for a light autogyro for power cable inspection.
[Namcek 1986, pp. 382-383] The two-seat autogyro had an enclosed cabin and a
tricycle landing gear
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, it was powered by a
Walter M332 aircraft engine driving a
tractor configuration
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two-bladed propeller. A three-bladed rotor was fitted above the cabin.
A full-scale model was displayed in 1966 in Moscow and the autogyro was tested in 1967 but nothing else is known.
Specifications
See also
Notes
References
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1960s Soviet civil utility aircraft
Kharkiv Aviation Institute aircraft
Single-engined tractor autogyros
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