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The Windspire Aeros is an American helicopter that was designed and produced by Windspire Inc. of Long Green, Maryland. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.〔Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 335. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1〕 ==Design and development== The Aeros was designed to comply with the US ''Experimental - Amateur-built'' aircraft rules. It features a single main rotor, a two-bladed tail rotor, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with a bubble canopy and skid-type landing gear with integral ground-handling wheels. The standard engine used is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke, Volkswagen air-cooled engine.〔〔 The aircraft fuselage is made from a mix of aluminum and steel tubing. Its diameter two-bladed rotor has a chord of and employs a NACA 0012 airfoil. The drive train consists of a primary belt drive connected to a geared transmission built with Volkswagen gears and a belt-driven tail rotor drive. The tail rotor has a diameter of and a chord of .〔〔 The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for crew and baggage is . The cabin width is .〔 The supplied plans include a fully illustrated guidebook and a parts list. The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied plans as 300 hours.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Windspire Aeros」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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