Bensen Mid-Jet

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name=Mid-Jet


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type=Experimental helicopter
national origin=United States
manufacturer=Bensen Aircraft
designer=Igor Bensen
first flight=avyear|1953
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variants with their own articles=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-6 rotor kite with small, gasoline- or fuel oil-burning ramjets mounted as tipjets on the rotor blades. 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).

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rot number= 1
rot dia m= 4.57
rot dia ft= 15
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height m=1.63
height ft=5
height in=4
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rot area sqm= 16.4
rot area sqft= 176
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empty weight kg=45
empty weight lb=100
gross weight kg=227
gross weight lb=500
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eng1 number=2
eng1 type=ramjets
eng1 kw= 15
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cruise speed kmh= 120
cruise speed mph= 75
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ee also

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* Gyrodyne RON
* Hiller ROE
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References

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* [http://www.vortechonline.com/bensen/ Bensen Aircraft at Vortechonline.com]