Hafner Rotabuggy flying jeep - photos

**Altair** · Aug 9, 2021, 01:56 PM

The Hafner Rotabuggy was an experimental aircraft developed by the British during WWII as a way to airdrop light vehicles to the battlefield. It was essentially a Willys MB fitted with a rotor kite.

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**Floradawg** · Aug 12, 2021, 10:11 AM

It looks like an autogyro. I don't see what propels it forward. I guess it may have been towed by another aircraft.

**IntheGroove** · Aug 12, 2021, 11:16 AM

I think it would be pushed out of a plane...

**Floradawg** · Aug 13, 2021, 02:57 PM

Yes I think you are right.

**Frank S** · Aug 13, 2021, 08:00 PM

According to wiki it was tested being towed behind a Bentley and had undergone several low level drop tests prior to that finally it was as you said pushed out of a plane.
By the time is was considered ready for service other developments had made it obsolete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafner_Rotabuggy