Paul,

Most people don't know this, but Cessna built a helicopter in the late
fifties.  It had an extremely clever rotor head and a configuration that
is a natural for an automotive-derived engine.  A turbocharged 20B would
be a great engine for this machine.  Check out this website:
http://www.commercemarketplace.com/home/CollectAir/cessna.html

This is a large website with a lot of good helicopter history and
info.  There are also some very good drawings in it.

Steve Brazil

Yes, Cessna did build and sell a few and after the liability became too
great they bought them all back from the customers and cut them all up.
When I worked at Cessna this was sort of a joke amongst the engineers.
Rumor has it that the dead helicopters are still buried at the Cessna Mid
Continent Campus somewhere.

Norm


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