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Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Fairey Rotodyne, an early VTOL design. The rotor was driven by simple jets at the blade tips, and overall the Rotodyne was a lot less complicated than a tilt-rotor.
Lot more sensible. Only drawback are those turboprop blades near the cabin entrance, say under fire at night your in a hurry to get on or off, middle of excitement be easy to run into them, they are rather close to the ground.
The rotor hub does not handle hot gas: "Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight, but autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers." Wikipedia. Later the article states that the engines ran separate compressors.
Osprey has greater speed, range and the ability to aerial refuel. OTOH the downwash has destroyed landing pads and injured people. In the end you're comparing a military system to a commuter short haul ferry.
Looks like a better fit to haul the troops than the Osprey
ReplyDeleteLot more sensible. Only drawback are those turboprop blades near the cabin entrance, say under fire at night your in a hurry to get on or off, middle of excitement be easy to run into them, they are rather close to the ground.
DeleteRun into the blades once, and you won't do it again.
DeleteThe rotor hub does not handle hot gas: "Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight, but autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers." Wikipedia. Later the article states that the engines ran separate compressors.
ReplyDeleteOsprey has greater speed, range and the ability to aerial refuel. OTOH the downwash has destroyed landing pads and injured people.
ReplyDeleteIn the end you're comparing a military system to a commuter short haul ferry.
A little redesigning and tweeking would fix the negatives.
DeleteHow many people were killed in testing the osprey? How many have continued to die?
ReplyDeleteAs many as required to maintain the corporate gravy train, must be a huge juicy billion dollar boondoggle for maintenance and overhaul contracts.
DeleteBut you could hear it three counties away.
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