Why Yes This Did Go Into Production. Why Do You Ask?
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During the fifties nothing seemed out of bounds for technology. Here is one of the better examples of thinking outside the box.
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A jet turbine is a carefully engineered piece of rotating machinery, with close tolerances being essential to safe and efficient operation. Many military and civilian applications of turbine engines, however, require operations in sub-optimal conditions. Sand, dust, and even salt water can impinge on the rapidily rotating blades inside the engine and quickly cause severe erosion. The solution to this problem may surprise you with its simplicity, and yet is a quite effective means of cleaning intake air. Continue reading Like the Sands of Time Through an Hourglass  1. Non-rotating outer ring (blue) 2. Turning inner ring (silver) 3. Ball joint 4. Control (pitch) preventing turning of outer ring 5. Control (roll) 6. Linkages (silver) to the rotor blade #. Linkages (black) that make the inner ring turn There is a saying in the aviation community that helicopters are a thousand moving parts going in generally the same direction. There is some truth to this. How does the helicopter change direction? Black magic? Pure, unadulterated evil? A mechanical linkage that changes the pitch and path of the blades, creating a higher lift region opposed by a lower lift region allowing the aircraft to move towards the lower lift region? Most likely, it’s a combination of all three.
After building the evil autogyros under license, Professor Henrich Focke decided that even more evil could be unleashed on mankind. What if we powered the rotor! We could create a flying machine so dastardly, it would take six years before a human would be able to harness the evil into a producible and, therefore, not-as-likely-to-kill-you machine. Not ready to ride off into the sunset just yet. In the news recently it was announced that NATO was upping the stakes in its air campaign in the civil war in Libya, utilising attack helicopters for the first time. While we’re not going to wade into the intricacies of that particular conflict, [...] So cool, every other celebrity should be ashamed. I don’t care who you are, you will never be as cool as Frank Sinatra. Here he is, climbing out of his private helicopter, with a glass of Scotch in his hand. Sinatra was so goddamn cool, he made his awesome look almost accidental. “Oh, [...] |
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