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This aircraft was flying using the Coandă effect [1] (also see video [2] at 1:38), it was aerodynamically unstable and required active control. It was definitel
by nuccy 4y ago
This aircraft was flying using the Coandă effect [1] (also see video [2] at 1:38), it was aerodynamically unstable and required active control. It was definitely ahead of its time. It would be great if some of those "crazy 40s-60s concept vehicles" could be revived with the modern technology.
Video in the linked wikipedia page is too short, this one is better [2].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHY_c13gVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHY_c13gVA
- trhway 4y ago> It would be great if some of those "crazy 40s-60s concept vehicles" could be revived with the modern technology. Yep, i wish some collector type (similar to car collecting Leno) spent some money building modern versions of at least some of the most successful/feasible models from the "wheel of VTOL misfortune" https://vtol.org/vstol/wheel.htm https://vtol.org/vstol/wheel.htm . Back then it seems to have been some kind of "Jurassic explosion" of VTOL innovation, and hopefully these days we're having some small renaissance of it.
- nradov 4y agoSomeone might build scale model drones of a few of those. But manned aircraft would be suicide weapons outside of a carefully controlled flight test program. There are just so many failure modes.