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To be clear, this is not a power-point program but a continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell. Two articles that cover this in depth are: 1. Revis

To be clear, this is not a power-point program but a continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell. Two articles that cover this in depth are: 1. Revised Fold-Away Rotor Aircraft Concepts Emerge From Special Operations X-Plane Program. December 2024: https://www.twz.com/air/revised-fold-away-rotor-aircraft-concepts-emerge-from-special-operations-x-plane-program https://www.twz.com/air/revised-fold-away-rotor-aircraft-con... 2. Bell’s Plan To Finally Realize A Rotorcraft That Flies Like A Jet But Hovers Like A Helicopter. September 2021: https://www.twz.com/41997/bells-plan-to-finally-realize-a-rotorcraft-that-flies-like-a-jet-but-hovers-like-a-helicopter https://www.twz.com/41997/bells-plan-to-finally-realize-a-ro... The second article covers decades of prior wind tunnel testing on the folding rotor concept.

moralestapia 7mo ago
>decades of prior wind tunnel testing on the folding rotor concept Oof, I wish I had a job like that.
- trhway 7mo ago
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- username223 7mo ago
  > Oof, I wish I had a job like that. Focus on something and become one of the best in the world at it. Expertise pays.
trhway 7mo ago
> continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell. sunk investment. The success - it made into production in meaningful numbers - of V-22 means that design will be beaten to death. Even though Bell X-22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdV5CVXGGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdV5CVXGGw) was much better as prop VTOL than V-22, and for jet VTOL Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (look how great it is flying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvkjFIYWR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvkjFIYWR8 ) was much better than F-35 has been and X-76 will be. And giving pilotless future of combat air, a tail sitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter will work great in pilotless version not needing all that folding/tilting hardware. A pilotless would also not have to have at least double engines/etc for reliability (and the monstrosity of interconnect between those 2 engines like V-22 has and X-76 is bound to have).

moralestapia 7mo ago

>decades of prior wind tunnel testing on the folding rotor concept Oof, I wish I had a job like that.

trhway 7mo ago
join an enterprise software BigCo.
username223 7mo ago
> Oof, I wish I had a job like that. Focus on something and become one of the best in the world at it. Expertise pays.

trhway 7mo ago

> continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell. sunk investment. The success - it made into production in meaningful numbers - of V-22 means that design will be beaten to death. Even though Bell X-22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdV5CVXGGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdV5CVXGGw) was much better as prop VTOL than V-22, and for jet VTOL Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (look how great it is flying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvkjFIYWR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvkjFIYWR8 ) was much better than F-35 has been and X-76 will be. And giving pilotless future of combat air, a tail sitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter will work great in pilotless version not needing all that folding/tilting hardware. A pilotless would also not have to have at least double engines/etc for reliability (and the monstrosity of interconnect between those 2 engines like V-22 has and X-76 is bound to have).