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unusual facts about Fairey Jet Gyrodyne


Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

Although scheduled for scrapping in 1961, the Jet Gyrodyne (serial number XD759 later XJ389) survived and today is displayed at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation, on loan from the RAF Museum collection.


Museum of Berkshire Aviation

Despite being a small museum, several of the exhibits are unique survivors, these include a Miles Martinet, World War 2 target tug, the only Miles Student two seat side-by-side jet trainer ever built and a Fairey Jet Gyrodyne — a composite helicopter and autogyro, or gyrodyne.


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