Bensen Mid-Jet

Mid-Jet
Role Experimental helicopter
National origin United States
Manufacturer Bensen Aircraft
Designer Igor Bensen
First flight 1953
Number built 1


The Bensen Mid-Jet (a pun on "Midget jet") was a small helicopter developed by Igor Bensen in the United States in the early 1950s in the hope of attracting the interest of the United States Navy. It was a single-seat, open framework machine based on the B-5 rotor kite with small, gasoline- or fuel oil-burning ramjets mounted as tipjets on the rotor blades.[1] Tests carried out in 1954 showed it to be able to lift four times its own weight and cruise at 75 mph (120 km/h).


Specifications

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

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  1. "Helicopter With 5 Pound Ramjet Engines to Fly 80 m.p.h." Popular Mechanics, June 1954, p. 138, bottom of page.
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