Фотографии
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Air-Britain Archive 1992-02 / Extracts. Paris 1946 (1)
The SNCAC NC2001 Abeille helicopter had some similarities to the Breguet G11E with vertical and horizontal tail surfaces but its twin 2-blade rotors were mounted on separate pylons and inter-meshed. It had a cleanly streamlined fuselage and the undercarriage was retractable. The engine was the 12-cyl inverted vee in-line Renault 12S.00 giving 600 hp at 3300 rpm for take-off. It was probably influenced by the SE3000 but was no more successful. The example displayed was unmarked.
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Air-Britain Archive 1992-04 / Extracts. Paris 1946 (3)
The NC.2001 Abeille helicopter with twin intermeshing rotors was presented at Paris as having a retractable undercarriage but stowage space for this appeared to be non-existent. During early ground tests it was mounted on a massive frame with motor vehicle wheels but later it had the fixed u/c seen in the photograph. Any benefits that might have resulted from its unusually shaped rotors were apparently not worth the resulting production complications as nothing more was heard of them, or of the NC.2001, after tests were completed.
