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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas

Department of Demented Designs

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Where the lights are never turned off ~ because the light never really came on.

Overview:

A collection of ideas and rotorcraft configurations that have not been thought through and most of them are probably dumb - but what the heck, they may be thought provoking.

Yellow designates electric drive.

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Ideas:

Name	Item
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Elevated Tip Weight: To reduce the coning angle and vibration.	0739
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Constant Speed Rotor (this is a view of the general concept)	0786
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - De-cone the Pre-cone	1056
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Automatic Engine Cooling Fan	0787
Active Variable Undersling
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - StarFire ~ A 5-blade rotor with tip jets	0864
DESIGN: SynchroLite ~ Control - Flight - Hydraulic - Schematic	0408
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Safety Reserve Fuel	0794
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Coaxial Transmission w/ Yaw Control	0954
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Two engines for Gyrocopter	0873
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Engine for Coaxial Rotors	1311
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Engine for Intermeshing Rotors	1903
DESIGN: UniCopter - Power Train - Alternative Idea - Ball Worm & Wheel Reducer	1509
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Corollas Prerotor for Gyrocopter	1402
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Traversing Blades	1477
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Coaxial - Teetering-Rigid Rotors	1708
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Interphased Electric Motors for Rotors	1460
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Timing Belt Drive	1919
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Hybrid Drive & Redundancy	2179

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Helicopter Configurations:

Also see; OTHER: - Helicopter - Inside

Name *	Item
Intermeshing:
Electric UniCopter	Electric UniCopter
Interleaving:
Electric Very Light Interleaving	Electric Interleaving
Side-by-Side:
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Adaptive Stagger Rotors (ASR)	1464
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Stopped Rotor	1540
Ducted Air:
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Root Jet Rotor	0002
Coaxial:
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Ultralight Compound Coaxial Helicopter	1728
Miscellaneous:
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL Wing	VTOL Wing
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Cyclogyro	1752
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - ELECTROTOR w/ Spherical Motor	1942

*Many of the components that are being designed and incorporated into the SynchroLite (such as blades, rotor hub, swashplate and power train parts, etc.) could be used later to build other styles of light twin-rotor helicopters; by self or by others. For example the Dragonfly.

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Fixed Wing VTOL Configurations:

Name *	Item
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas – TiltWing-VL (verylight) - Overview	2181
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - TiltWing - VL (scale) - Overview	2136
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Airplane with VTOL	1492
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Flying Carpet (Roots blowers)	1427
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL Electrical Flying Carpet	1481
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL Electrical Flying Carpet #2	2035
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL w/ Wings and Cables	1519
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL w/ Super Ultrahigh-bypass Turbofan Engine	1502
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - XSTOL & Airpad	1366
OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Blended Wing Body & Bladder	1606

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Related Pages - This Site:

Electric Rotorcraft

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Last Revised: May 8, 2013