XA-5 Top Sergeant

The XA-5 Top Sergeant was a helicopter developed by American Helicopter in the late 1940s.[1]

Design

The XA-5 had an open cockpit and the lower fuselage and undercarriage of a Sikorsky R-6 with an open rear boom and small rudder. The two rotor blades had two tip-mounted pulsejet engines driven by a fuselage-mounted compressor.[2]

Development

The XA-5 first flew in January 1949.

References

  1. ^ "Popular Mechanics". Hearst Magazines. August 1949.
  2. ^ Simpson, R. W. Airlife's Helicopters and Rotorcraft. Ramsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-85310-968-1.
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