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Post by slackie on Mar 8, 2012 12:40:38 GMT 12
Cool video explains it all...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 14:16:59 GMT 12
If I had one of those, I too would race a train  |
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Post by haughtney1 on Mar 8, 2012 18:29:36 GMT 12
What an ugly beast, would be interesting to see what the fuel burn is. Nothing like a marketing video with lots of nice music....I bet it's as noisy as the 7 dwarfs banging a hammer in a dozen tin rubbish bins!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 19:05:42 GMT 12
Yeah it isn't that pretty is it haha But the performance looked alright. Definitely not the conventional helicopter though, thats for sure.
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Post by Bruce on Mar 8, 2012 19:44:27 GMT 12
Of course, the Fairey Gyrodyne and Rotodyne used the same concept back in the 1950s (jet drive rotors though). looks pretty cool - will give some competition for the Agusta Westland (formerly Bell - Boeing) 609 Tiltrotor.
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Post by davel on Mar 8, 2012 21:28:52 GMT 12
I still think Sikorsky is heading in a much better direction with their X-2 demonstrator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_X2) which achieved over 250 knots. The next stage of the Sikorsky project is the S-97 Raider.
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