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Old October 20th 03, 04:03 PM
Henry Spencer
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Default Where is the Roton ATV?

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Jon G wrote:
After Rotary Rocket went out of business, was the ATV scrapped or did some
organization buy it?


Last I heard, it had been (tentatively?) sold to a museum in San Diego,
but the first attempt to move it there -- by helicopter, last spring --
had to be aborted when the Chinook-ATV combination proved dangerously
unstable in flight. I've heard nothing since.
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