Imagine a world where we could fly directly from one city center to another, bypassing congested airports. The Rotodyne, a ...

The search for an aircraft that could take off and land anywhere like a helicopter, but could fly fast and far like a ...

You’d think that a mashup of an airplane and a helicopter would be great, right? The Fairey Rotodyne was just such a thing from the late 1950s and while it looked to be the wave of the future ...

Still unspoken for are Fairey Aviation Co., Rotodyne aircraft developer; Handley Page, an R.A.F. jet bomber maker; and such firms as Hunting Aircraft, Short Bros. & Harland, and Westland Aircraft ...