RON Rotorcycle

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name=RON Rotorcycle


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type=Personal helicopter
national origin=United States of America
manufacturer=Gyrodyne
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first flight=23 November avyear|1955
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number built=10
variants with their own articles=The RON Rotorcycle (later redesignated HOG) was a tiny, single-seat helicopter developed in the United States in the mid 1950s. It was the result of a United States Marine Corps requirement for a small personal helicopter that would fulfill a number of roles, including observation, liaison, small unit tactical maneuvers, and which could be dropped to downed airmen behind enemy lines to facilitate their escape. Gyrodyne's design was an open-framework helicopter with coaxial rotors, which was evaluated with three different power plants (two reciprocating, one turbine). The Marine Corps eventually concluded that both the RON, and the competing Hiller ROE were too heavy and too difficult to fly and abandoned the project. The United States Navy, however, had noticed the compact size and high load-carrying capacity of the RON, and in 1960 awarded a contract to Gyrodyne to produce a radio-controlled drone version of the Rotorcycle, to be used as an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) platform. Using the dynamic components of the RON, this was eventually developed as the Gyrodyne QH-50.

The Rotorcycle went on to win the prize for most maneuverable helicopter at the Paris Air Show in 1961, and was selected for a 1964 trade fair in Morocco by the United States Department of Commerce.

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crew=One pilot
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length m=3.51
length ft=11
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rot area sqm= 29.2
rot area sqft= 314
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empty weight kg=250
empty weight lb=550
gross weight kg=378
gross weight lb=832
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max speed kmh=125
max speed mph=78
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range km=88
range miles=55
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ceiling m=3,780
ceiling ft=12,400
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climb rate ms=5.8
climb rate ftmin=1,140
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