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The KC 518 is a composite fuselage helicopter kit for amateur construction. The airframe uses a carbon fiber and kevlar composite fuselage with a shrouded tail rotor. An auxiliary fuel system can be installed.
The MH-1 was originally provided as a series of kits to upgrade old Mini-500 airframes, allowing the owner to modify them to MH-1 standards. The kits include a new Yamaha engine of 130 hp (97 kW), that replaces the Mini-500's 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582, plus a new mount for the Yamaha engine. The remaining kits cover modifications to the main ...
The prototype of the one-man open framework homebuilt helicopter powered by a 34 hp (25 kW) Triumph motorcycle engine. Hobbycopter 101 Production version of the XH-1 offered as a kit for $900, or as plans for $35 to homebuilders. Hobbycopter 102 Strengthened Model 101 with 34 hp (25 kW) Triumph and a fibre-glass cockpit enclosure.
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The Helicycle helicopter is the first experimental helicopter kit in mass-production to be powered by a turbine engine, the military surplus Solar T62-T32, capable of producing 150 shaft horsepower. The engine is limited to 95 horsepower due to torque limits on the main gearbox and rotor system.
The president of the International Experimental Helicopter Association, the Mini-500 aircraft type club, Bill Phillips, who completed a kit, but did not fly it stated: "You can tell it is junk just by looking at it" and described Revolution Helicopter Corporation president Dennis Fetters as "one of the biggest cons that’s ever hit the kit ...
Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first to offer for free construction plans, publishing drawings of his Demoiselle in the June 1910 edition of Popular Mechanics. [6] The first aircraft to be offered for sale as plans, rather than a completed airframe, was the Baby Ace in the late 1920s. [7]
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