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Kettle XR-10
The XR-10 is a utility helicopter in service across Ayascara's armed forces. The helicopter uses two intermeshing, counterrotating rotors, powered by twin nacelle-mounted engines and connected via external driveshafts. First introduced by Kettle Autogyro Corporation in 1947, the helicopter was not an immediate success. Kettle was already struggling when it built the first XR-10 prototype, and many naysayers predicted the complex control systems for the interlocking blades would fail. However, despite two nasty crashes and a painfully long development cycle, Kettle somehow kept scraping together enough funds to keep the program going. With traditional autogyros rapidly becoming obsolete, the board knew they needed a revolutionary success to stay in business. Kettle was days away from bankruptcy when AAAF finally declared them the winner of the contract, by default, since no other manufacturers had submitted entries.
In this photo, a helicopter pilot has gotten lost and landed on the salt flats to ask for directions from four local militiamen. Also, John Travolta is here, since we watched Grease last night and I got too into building this and forgot to sleep. The reference photos for this came from Noa, and the cockpit came from a tablescrap Errin threw together last week, but this was essentially a one-night build.
Kettle XR-10
The XR-10 is a utility helicopter in service across Ayascara's armed forces. The helicopter uses two intermeshing, counterrotating rotors, powered by twin nacelle-mounted engines and connected via external driveshafts. First introduced by Kettle Autogyro Corporation in 1947, the helicopter was not an immediate success. Kettle was already struggling when it built the first XR-10 prototype, and many naysayers predicted the complex control systems for the interlocking blades would fail. However, despite two nasty crashes and a painfully long development cycle, Kettle somehow kept scraping together enough funds to keep the program going. With traditional autogyros rapidly becoming obsolete, the board knew they needed a revolutionary success to stay in business. Kettle was days away from bankruptcy when AAAF finally declared them the winner of the contract, by default, since no other manufacturers had submitted entries.
In this photo, a helicopter pilot has gotten lost and landed on the salt flats to ask for directions from four local militiamen. Also, John Travolta is here, since we watched Grease last night and I got too into building this and forgot to sleep. The reference photos for this came from Noa, and the cockpit came from a tablescrap Errin threw together last week, but this was essentially a one-night build.