Unusual heli

[CAPP0]

Something very unusual just overflew me, in Kent, near Maidstone. Nothing on FR24. It was a very noisy heli; at first I thought it was a Chinook approaching but it was actually noisier (we get those every so often). The noise was changing frequently, often with sounds like thunderclaps.

It looked like something a mad professor built in his barn. Possibly tandem rotors - it looked like it, and there was no tail rotor, just twin tail fins. The body was like a rectangular hulk. Red white & blue, I think. Very odd-looking thing.

[twister]

V22 Osprey?

[Eric Mc]

Could the OP draw a picture

[CAPP0]

twister said:

V22 Osprey?

No, definitely not that. The rotors, if they were indeed tandem, were co-axial. It really did look home-made.

[FunkyNige]

The London air ambulance doesn't have a tail rotor and I guess that could match the colours you describe.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Zad said:

McDonnell Douglas "NOTAR" Explorer



There is a high speed fan in the tail boom, and a rotating slot at the end of the tail that controls the direction of the air, to counteract the torque.

NOTAR was originally developed by Hughes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAR

[twister]

Ah, could it be the KA-32 that someone mentioned seeing on Flightradar earlier this week?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[essayer]

There was a Kamov Ka-32 tooling about yesterday, might have been one of those?

[CAPP0]

twister said:

Ah, could it be the KA-32 that someone mentioned seeing on Flightradar earlier this week?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Well done! Almost certainly that. VERY weird-looking and VERY noisy!

[tight5]

twister said:

V22 Osprey?

CAPP0 said:

Red white & blue

[demic]

Came over us near Leeds again today heading home I guess..

[SeeFive]

Hairy Biscuit said:

This?

Edited by Hairy Biscuit on Thursday 11th October 19:53

One hell of a pigeon scarer...