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Hopefully this concept remains with DARPA and remains just a concept
- Thread starter Trev82
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DARPA has been working on that same concept well back into the 1980s.
I remember seeing this thing as a kid:
I remember seeing this thing as a kid:
That's a face not even a mother could love...
Im actually surprised they arent looking at something more along the lines of "The 6th Day"... Compared to these other concepts that design seemed fairly feasible, with the exception that you would have to find a way to flip the retreating blade around when it transitions to fixed wing... but that said it seems like finding a way to do that would be more practical that having all the drag associated with the disk, or an unused rotor.
that mike guy
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@SynixMan - My first thoughts exactly.
@HackerF15E - That thing reminds me of one of optimus prime with space shuttle attachments (from a really old episode).
@statesman - Gonna have to agree with you.
@HackerF15E - That thing reminds me of one of optimus prime with space shuttle attachments (from a really old episode).
@statesman - Gonna have to agree with you.
Instead of flushing money into DARPA for farsighted, never put into production fantasies the Marine Corps could sure use that cheddar for something practical such as accelerating the production and already finished concept of the 53K so us young studs have a chance to fly one in the future
MasterBates
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Don't worry, they will put the same people who made the "Failsafe" NP2K on it. :icon_smil
Oh wait. Don't do that.
Blended helos and fixed wing is the next step in aviation. The key will be to use new technologies to simplify, vice complicate, how we do it.
The disc rotor looks interesting, though I wonder how things such as how it counters torque and how they do the flight controls, e.g. unless that big center disc moves, how to they direct the thrust vector?
The disc rotor looks interesting, though I wonder how things such as how it counters torque and how they do the flight controls, e.g. unless that big center disc moves, how to they direct the thrust vector?
Have you looked up anything DARPA has come up with?