This ungraceful experimental medium-capacity helicopter was designed by Societa per Azioni Fiat in the late 1950s. Their 7002 displayed a sort of “child drawn” fuselage equipped with a toylike girder tail-boom on which a shrouded tail rotor was mounted. Its 530 hp Fiat 4700 turbine in the aft fuselage drove a compressor which fed cold air to the nozzles on the two-blade rotor tips. Despite its not very promising shape, it did fly. Its maiden flight took place in early 1961, two years later it was history.
Such hideousness next to those smart Sabres and a lovely Gina. Venus -the Roman goddess of beauty- should have cried, a lot.
Photo: Centro Storico Fiat.
Aviation Rapture 
Reminds me of the Fairey Rotodyne which I saw at Farnborough in (I think), 1960. It seemed a horribly noisy beast at the time, but probably no worse that the Cougar S-92 helicopters flying overhead where I live now though.
The Rotodyne was prettier, that’s for damn sure. 😀
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