Reply to: Helicopter with wings promises to change aviation world

[TykeMerc]

Surely STOL is cheaper and safer.

Not so practical in some places though. Oil rigs, snowfields and tower office blocks spring to mind

[gingerjedi]

Surely STOL is cheaper and safer.

Wow, impressive control there.

[Paddy]

Surely STOL is cheaper and safer.

[Churchill]

I've just applied for a patent, before anyone else thinks of it, to change the rotors on the wings to jet engines.

They're not as efficient as turboprops at lower speeds and altitudes.

But hey, Jet A1 is cheap enough...

[PAH]

I've just applied for a patent, before anyone else thinks of it, to change the rotors on the wings to jet engines.

[Churchill]

The G-Lynx reached 249mph, I've got it on a poster.

I thought that was more like it.

[gingerjedi]

Isn't that what used to be called an auto-gyro? They had those back in the 30s.

No, an autogyro doesn't power the rotor blades so you need forward motion to get lift.

[pacharan]

Isn't that what used to be called an auto-gyro? They had those back in the 30s.

[gingerjedi]

Yep 199.92mph for the lynx 267mph for the weird thing.

The G-Lynx reached 249mph, I've got it on a poster.

[shaunbhoy]

A Helicopter with wings? Not quite Cricket!!

Harrumph!!

[fragglerock]

Is it faster than the Lynx?

Yep 199.92mph for the lynx 267mph for the weird thing.

[Churchill]

Is it faster than the Lynx?

[MrRobin]

Isn't the biggest issue with high speed helicopters the airspeed of the forwards moving rotor tip and the pressure wave as it approaches transonic? Stopping the rotors from falling to bits will need some fairly funky materials especially if some pilot puts it into a dive.

Correct, but with these types of heli design presumably the rotors are slowed down or even stopped when the speed of the aircraft means enough lift comes from the wings alone.

[gingerjedi]

It's an old idea, we Brits had one back in the 1950's.

I've got a load of original promo docs from my days at Westland including one for the Rotodyne, things were so much more exciting when cost and efficiency wasn't so important.

[TykeMerc]

There's also this type of approach to the problem :- Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There have been variations on this theme kicking about for a while.