Posted by
Wingnut (2)
Edit | RE: KA-60 Kasatka
Posted: December 10, 2003 (11:45 AM) | My guess would be that, the KA-60 and KA-50 have different roles.
The KA-60 is a tranport and patrol helicopter ment for shipboard use, therefore it is an advantage to use a scheme with one main rotor assisted by a tail rotor. This gives better low speed handling copared to the two mainrotor scheme on the KA-50. because i can't see how the KA-50 can rotate without some forward movement. This possible with a traditional rotorscheme. look at:
http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/ka-60-r.html
and:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/ka-50.htm
For comparison and adittional information. |
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