Well, waddya know...

http://www.uavenginesltd.co.uk/index.php?id=394
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAI_RQ-7_Shadow

20 year old news.

Indeed. haven't seen it mentioned here though ?

Rohan wrote:haven't seen it mentioned here though ?

Access Norton didn't exist 20 years ago!

Got some catching up to do then, haven't we !

Rohan wrote:Got some catching up to do then, haven't we !

You perhaps, not we, and besides, what has it got to do with Norton Commandos?

I thought we were in the section for NOT Norton Commandos ?
A flying motorcycle engine is interesting stuff, very few have successfully gone there.

P.S. There is another general history post on Norton rotaries, what has that to do with Commandos ?

Rohan wrote: I thought we were in the section for NOT Norton Commandos ?

Only because I moved the topic from the Commando section where you posted it originally

Rohan wrote:A flying motorcycle engine is interesting stuff, very few have successfully gone there.

I'm not saying it isn't (although it isn't really a flying motorcycle engine)-only that it wasn't NEWS!

Rohan wrote:P.S. There is another general history post on Norton rotaries, what has that to do with Commandos ?

Nothing. Your point being...?

Ha no one flew a Norton push rod twin but sure did the Triumph 650 helicopter. Even these Norton Rotary's were flown in drones. How's that for a vote of faith in the old breed.

hobot wrote:Even these Norton Rotary's were flown in drones. How's that for a vote of faith in the old breed.

Not just unmanned drones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidWest_AE_series


The fact that Norton motorcycle and aero engines were both Wankel rotaries I think is basically where any similarity between the two types end.

Cause it is a motorcycle - we could also remember that GP Triumph engines were used to power genorators in WW 11 Lancaster bombers.

Or more correctly the engine, made by Triumph used for generators in Lanacster bombers latter turned up in the GP.

And some of the engines out of Lancaster bombers later turned up in cars.
Probably a subject for another forum though....

Pretty neat adaptation of a BSA engine development with a Norton sticker, eh.

Then there's the imaginary Norton Aircraft Company here likely based on the early Commando frame.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airframe_%28novel%29
Airframe is a novel by American writer Michael Crichton, first published in hardcover in 1996 by Knopf and as a paperback in 1997 by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice-president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and fifty-six injured.