Freewind Bumble B

The Freewind Bumble B () is a French autogyro that was designed and produced by Freewind Aviation of Vimory, introduced in about 2013. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 194. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

Freewind Aviation seems to have been founded about 2013 and gone out of business in 2014. It is not clear how many aircraft were produced, although at least one example flew.

Design and development

The Bumble B features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in tandem open cockpit with composite aircraft fairing, fairing and a windshield, tricycle landing gear and a modified four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke, turbocharged Rotax 912 engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft has a two-bladed rotor with a diameter of and a chord of . The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

Reviewer Werner Pfaendler described the design as, "a low cost but good quality gyrocopter with excellent flight characteristics".

Specifications (Bumble B 912 Supercharged)

See also

*List of rotorcraft

References

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External links

Official website archives

Freewind aircraft, Bumble B
2010s French sport aircraft
Single-engined pusher autogyros