Comments on: How I Solved the Helicopter Problem http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/26/how-i-solved-the-helicopter-problem/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:28:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JakeofAllTrades http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/26/how-i-solved-the-helicopter-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-1057507 JakeofAllTrades Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:16:01 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4691#comment-1057507 Wow Wee Toys' new RC helicopter, the BladeStar, operates on the same principle. Perhaps there is something to it! http://www.rchelicopter.com/2008/01/29/wowwee-announces-flytech-bladestar-rc-helicopter/ Wow Wee Toys’ new RC helicopter, the BladeStar, operates on the same principle. Perhaps there is something to it!

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]]> By: Justin M http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/26/how-i-solved-the-helicopter-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-1057395 Justin M Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:44:07 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4691#comment-1057395 I don't see much for yaw control ... granted, the propellers on the "wings" won't torque the body in the opposite direction like a modern helicopter's engine does, but you would like to point the thing in one direction or another while hovering. That and a lot of complexity shows why this idea didn't stick around. There was a similar idea much later however. Without the tails on each wing, and with small jet engines (or rockets!) in place of propellers and drive shafts, you have a tip-jet rotor helicopter. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0141.shtml I don’t see much for yaw control … granted, the propellers on the “wings” won’t torque the body in the opposite direction like a modern helicopter’s engine does, but you would like to point the thing in one direction or another while hovering. That and a lot of complexity shows why this idea didn’t stick around.

There was a similar idea much later however. Without the tails on each wing, and with small jet engines (or rockets!) in place of propellers and drive shafts, you have a tip-jet rotor helicopter.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/qu.....0141.shtml

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