Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Why the SB-1 never had a chance as the new US Army helicopter?" video.

  1. The XH-59 was unfortunate in that it came about just before the 1970s energy crisis which meant that the cost of flying it shot through the roof. If the Fairey Rotodyne had received the funding it needed the next planned stage would have seen the rotor being folded way and stowed in the roof once it was travelling fast enough and use the engines on the wings to fly it.
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