During my usual technolurkande on obscure websites and diligent questioning wandering, I found a po

During my usual technolurkande on obscure websites and diligent questioning wandering, I found a post on a bunch of crazy proud Frenchmen. This applies to our friends at Eurocopter, which has produced something that is apparently the newest and most amazing throughout ... ever. Eurocopter X , read apparently "Ex Cube" smartfly (or in my case "Cross cube" ..:-), is an extra giddy concept smartfly to solve the embarrassing fact that the helicopter is not only painfully expensive, heavy and service demanding .. it is slow too. The very French innovative idea is to bolt the parts gained over from the other buildings on one of the company flygetyg and let it pretend it's a small fine aircraft smartfly instead, to see if you can trick it into some sort of respectable speed . There is thus no end to the wings, gearboxes and propellers. The idea is that you should let the main rotor wind down during fast forward travel, all to avoid it forward sweeping the rotor tip goes through the sound barrier with whatever problems this creates in loss of buoyancy, etc. Instead, the drive made of the side-mounted plugs and some lift must be obtained from the wings. So far, so good and it's actually not so stupid that it can work. But INNOVATIVE? Let us become weak historical: 1923, January 9th. Juan de la Cierva (Spain) flies for the first time its new creation; gyro plane, or autogyro as we know it today. Strictly speaking, not vertical starting but still a very good compromise between the helicopter and traditional aircraft. A "regular" propeller propulsion motors and a main rotor driven smartfly by the wind. As elegant as easily. 1942. Foche-Angelis Fa 269. Early tiltrotor named "convertiplane". Projected by the Nazis during smartfly the final months, been in mothballs and resumed the early 50s in Brazil. Dazzling smartfly complex mechanics with motor in the body and rotating driveline and ditto wing-mounted engine nacelles. 1955, August smartfly 11. First flight smartfly of the Bell XV-3. The basis of Bell's focus on the tilt-rotor concept, which would later lead to the XV-15, V-22 and BA-609th 1957, November 6th. First flight of Fairey Rotodyne. A technical sandwich cake of yummy British solutions, smartfly in the format of a London bus ... In practice, a giant auto gyro rotor tip mounted jet engines and turbopropar propulsion. 1976, 12th October. smartfly First flight of the Sikorsky S-72 "X-Wing". Hybrid helicopter and fixed wing. Wings, jet engines and a main rotor that could be stopped and locked in the x-configuration in flight. The most innovative in concept should still be rotor control mechanism operated by the computer-controlled valves flocked air from the engines out through valves in the symmetric rotor blades instead of turning them. With the air flow directed to the rotor blade aerodynamics through the yard. The project was also small fighter on the theme. (The idea of staying a helikoterrotor in mid flight and lock it in the x-position is linked to the theories around "oblique wing concept." Presented as tutorials for the hopeful. A great entry is googling "Ames-Dryden AD-1". ) 2010, September 6th. First flight with Eurocopter X . "Eurocopter Has Begun test flights of the X3 demonstrator ITS Innovative High-speed, long-range Hybrid Helicopter (H3) concept, Which combines excellent vertical takeoff and landing capabilities smartfly with the cruise speeds of more than 220 kts." The only punch I may come on after all this is that if one should stand on the shoulders of those who were before such a one can at least make sure you have clean on his feet. Personally, I would guess that X : an going to flop. It does not look the least "French" out!
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