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Description
| Manufacturer: | Avro Canada | |
| Base model: | VZ-9 | |
| Designation: | VZ-9 | |
| Nickname: | Avrocar | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1956-1962 | |
| Basic role: | VTOL Research | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| United States Army Transportation Museum | Fort Eustis | Virginia |
VZ-9 on display
United States Army Transportation Museum |
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| Bill Winton Phoenix, AZ | I just finished rearranging the AVROCAR configuration again. I took the mini jet driven turbines out of the saucer housing altogether.It was too heavy with all the thrust vector vanes and jets. lift was decreased even when I used two avros for my scale model I was trying to duplicate the entire design from the 50's.I did get some glide and lift putting two of these things with mini jets at cg nex to fuselage like the ryan x5.Now I'm trying a different approach,I put the turbine in a sphere,placed a monolithic deflector under the fan ,and added a rubber boot around the bottom half of the sphere at the equator. Thrust exits this portion near the bottom at four points which is now moveable in any direction,Any direction. The degree of rotation on this does'nt have to be more than 20 to get the craft to roll or pitch and to make the transition from vertical to horizonta flight .I originally though it would have to be more but less seems to do the trick.So 2 spheres up front at c.g of craft.There are wings at the tip with fins a tail and rudder;I did have to put a smaller sphere in the tail for yaw during hover.A canard will work too I just like it better with spheres up front although it will fly backwards. The tail sphere houses a single suction impeller like the ones found in toy hovercraft.All movement is acheived with 3 servos.2 up front for roll and pitch and a micro in the back for yaw and pitch.Thank to the AVROcar design I never would have gotten this thing off the ground.The turbine fans are made out of aluminum by the way.balsa wood catches on fire trust me.mini jets can be dangerous they are real jets just smaller so be extremely careful.do not attempt to house more than one in your scale turbine AVROCAR used three but that was the full scale version and they had their reasons for using three.Mainly,I beleive it had something to do with testing for exhaust gas ingestion and thrust vectoring and it was mainly a testbed for that ,My conclusion is that you can do it with just one jet instead of three and stil get increased lift for your model . 09/10/2006 @ 22:31 [ref: 14139] |
| Mike McAllister Toronto (TAM), ON | 2 weeks ago I attempted to upload three recent (May 05) pics of the AvroCar, including a closeup of an engine inlet area, with hatch open, but none of these pics have appeared on this site. Will this work in the future?
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| Mike McAllister Toronto (TAM), ON | 2 weeks ago I attempted to upload three recent (May 05) pics of the AvroCar, including a closeup of an engine inlet area, with hatch open, but none of these pics have appeared on this site. Will this work in the future?
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| Tom Rudisch Toronto, ON | Below is a few pictures of a model made at avro for a few of the staff.I do not know how many were made,it has brass wheels and antenna 12/05/2005 @ 16:21 [ref: 11885] |
| bill winton winton air vtols phoenix, AZ | Ijust built 2 scale models of the avrocar using mini jets I used the original blueprints to get an accurate dynamic result.I did something noone tried I used the two avrocars as lifting devices for a glider-type aricraft mounted on either side the the glider much like the ryan x5 .all i can say is you don't need a runway for this baby.'The problem of jets ingesting their own exhaust gases was somehow solved in the original design of the full-scale avrocar back in the 50's,and interstingly enough the same problem seems to have solved itself in the models i built. What a real genius who designed it. 09/06/2005 @ 22:01 [ref: 11167] |
| John , CA | To whom it may concern;
I was once a Research Aircraft Mechanic during those years when the aeronautical world was \'toying\' and \'experimenting\' with vertical takeoff aircraft and the use of \'Lift Fans\'(fans turned by the hot gases of an attached turbine engine(s)whose hot exhaust was ducted through the hi-temp bucket wheel attached at the outer edge of the \'Lift-Fan\' proper) as the mechanism to perform the lift. I personally remember the \'Avro-Car\' while it was being \'investigated\' at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. It was \'delivered\' in a big quadra sided box (I don\'t recall how many sides) across the salt flats from Alviso where it had been sent down the bay on a barge. I believe that at the time enough research had previously been done at other centers to recognize that the \'Avrocar\' would absolutely never achieve any altitude higher than about ten feet, no matter what tricks of engineering could be dreamed up. However, as a \'testbed\' for Lift-Fan research, I believe the folks at Ames gleaned enough data to help with building the Ryan XV-5A (two of them; only one survives today) and something called \'The Cruise Fan\', engineered by D. Guilienetti. In the middle of\'64 I was \'told\' to take the \'Avrocar\', which had been gathering dust for a few years in the hangar, down to the \'Scrap Heap\' and the local junk man would come and take it away when he came on his quarterly run. Well, I had been \'lusting\' after the box that thing had come in because it was high enough and had enough enclosed square feet to make a pretty nice house if you painted the sides after you put some windows and doors in it and built rooms inside. It would have mad a very nice \'shell\' house because the framd was 3 inch angle iron. But a few months later I was tole to go down and bring the \'Avrocar\' back up to the metal shop where they spent three months patching up all the holes and dents because they were sending it to the Smithsonian Institute. Well, there went my new house. 09/06/2004 @ 16:00 [ref: 8224] |
| g.ditchfield , ON | have picture of 315 flying nov 19 1959 08/28/2001 @ 17:03 [ref: 3053] |
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