latest miracle aircraft

[thruthefence]

Clever folks, those Austrians.

http://tinyurl.com/5rc6urm

 

[MikeHalloran]

You can buy a smaller one at Brookstone for about $300.


Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[ornerynorsk]

Reminds me a lot of the Moller project.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

 

[berkshire]

It looks like a re-hash of something from the 1870's, cyclogiro maybe?
B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

 

[thruthefence]

Google:

"Austrian research firm IAT21 has unveiled a radically new type of aircraft that could render the helicopter obsolete, D-Dalus."

 

[moon161]

Looks neat, but I'm skeptical. All you really see is massive reposting and cross linking.

If it really made a splash at Le Bourget, it would be in avweek, where it doesn't show.

 

[FeX32]

alternate link:

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/56778-new-type-of-aircraft-flies-like-a-ufo

Fe

 

[FeX32]

How does it make no noise when it has rotating blades and a jet engine?


Fe

 

[thruthefence]

The fellow who wrote this press release, in all likelyhood, has never laid eyes (or ears) on the "aircraft".

 

[FeX32]

...or ever thought about it.. ha




Fe

 

[berkshire]

I believe the person writing this press release is a woman.
B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

 

[berkshire]

Gizmag has some better photos
It is essentialy a feathering paddle wheel design.

http://www.gizmag.com/d-dalus-uav-design/18972/picture/136407/

B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

 

[berkshire]

this in today's Engineer magazine.

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sector...-in-uavs-that-enter-buildings/1009179.article

B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

 

[dgallup]

‘We had to find a friction-free bearing'

Really? Would you like to buy my perpetual motion machine?

 

[FeX32]

'We had to find a friction-free bearing'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_bearing

I find these bearings very interesting. Some would call them friction free, others would not.

This says nothing about my HUGE skepticism for this "noise-less" machine built with alien technology however.




Fe

 

[FeX32]

I should probably point out that those that think they are frictionless forget about eddie currents.


Fe

 

[rb1957]

this is based on the low pressure that builds up under a spinning disc, yes? seems like a difficult way to create a force ... the disc needs to be light so it doesn't require much power to keep it running, but stiff so that it doesn't deflect; and i guess if you mount it on gimballs you'd be able to point the force in any direction ... but i'd've thought that the low pressure would be reacted by atmospheric pressure from both sides = no nett force ??

how did Cranfield get into this ? ... a big enough bag of money I suspect will turn anyone into a 'hore ??

 

[thruthefence]

"'We had to find a friction-free bearing'"

I would think this would be the REAL news in this dust-up.

Miracle flying bedsteads surface pretty often, "friction-Free" bearings, not so much.

 

[berkshire]

I think you will find that this is a feathering paddle wheel design.
Think voith schneider propellor
The thing that is different about this design, to prior attempts, is that the sideplates ( Discs) are solid thereby trapping the tip vortices. allowing a very low aspect ratio wing. I think his comments about the "Frictionless bearing " refers to the hinge bearings for the " paddle blades"
B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

 

[tmoritz]

I wonder if you can do something equivelant to autorotate or glide in this thing. I for one would like to have some means of safely landing an aircraft if the engine(s) crap out.

Tom Moritz
Mechanical Engineer
US Bureau of Reclamation