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Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas
D
epartment of Demented Designs
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 99.9% of them are probably dumb - but what the heck, they may be thought provoking.
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Elevated Tip Weight: To reduce the coning angle and vibration. |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Constant Speed Rotor (this is a view of the general concept) |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - De-cone the Pre-cone |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Auto-Collective Rotor Hub |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Automatic Engine Cooling Fan |
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Active Variable Undersling |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - StarFire ~ A 5-blade rotor with tip jets |
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DESIGN: SynchroLite ~ Control - Flight - Hydraulic - Schematic |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Safety Reserve Fuel |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Coaxial Transmission w/ Yaw Control |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Two engines for Gyrocopter |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Engine for Coaxial Rotor |
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DESIGN: UniCopter - Power Train - Alternative Idea - Ball Worm & Wheel Reducer |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Corollas Prerotor for Gyrocopter |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Traversing Blades |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Interphased Electric Motors for Rotors |
Also see;
OTHER: - Helicopter - Inside|
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Electric UniCopter |
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Interleaving: |
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Electric Very Light Interleaving |
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Side-by-Side: |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Adaptive Stagger Rotors (ASR) |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Stopped Rotor |
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Ducted Air: |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Root Jet Rotor |
*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.
Gyrocopter Configurations:
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyrocopter - Basic (w/ mid prop) |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Gyrocopter with Phased Upgrading Toward UniCopter |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Unified Gyro/Heli (w/ 50/50 power split) w/ 1 Prop |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Unified Gyro/Heli (w/ 50/50 power split) w/ 2 Props |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Single Rotor and Two Tilt Props |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Unified Gyro/Synchro (w/ 50/50 power split) |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Collective and Cyclic Control |
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OTHER: Aircraft - Gyro/Heli - Non-powered |
Fixed Wing VTOL Configurations:
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Airplane with VTOL |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Flying Carpet (Roots blowers) |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL Electrical Flying Carpet |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL w/ Wings and Cables |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - VTOL w/ Super Ultrahigh-bypass Turbofan Engine |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - XSTOL & Airpad |
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OTHER: Miscellaneous - Thoughtless Ideas - Blended Wing Body & Bladder |
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