Pitts Sky Car
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pitts-sky-car-201-18545893
title:
Pitts Sky Car
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The Pitts Sky Car was an unsuccessful aircraft designed for vertical take off, by inventor John W. Pitts of Detroit, Michigan. Pitts filed a United States Patent in 1924 for a propeller, "which will cause an immediate vertical lift of any aerial car to which the propeller is attached". This consisted of a "mushroom-shaped" rotor of 60 blades, each hinged at the root. An engine would rotate and reciprocate the propeller, causing the blades to close on the downstroke and open on the upstroke, whic
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Type of aircraft
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitts_Sky_Car
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2023-11-19T02:14:29Z
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