Return-Path: Received: from imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.66] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b8) with ESMTP id 323842 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:46:35 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.66; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net Received: from bellsouth.net ([209.215.60.200]) by imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040716174605.KIZW1776.imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net@bellsouth.net> for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:46:05 -0400 Message-ID: <40F81453.3020809@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:45:55 -0500 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: You want far out? AMV References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Al Gietzen wrote: > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: You want far out? AMV > > A friend took these photos yesterday at Ramona airport. Web site is at = > http://amvaircraft.com/. > > Turbo 13B intended to produce over 400hp. We know it can taxi. The=20 > plan is for hover testing today. > > Thanks for passing this along. VERY cool if it works. I can sure think = > of some nasty engine failure scenarios though... > > Rusty > > According to the inventor, the wing loading of the =93lifting=94 surfac= es=20 > allows it to glide much like a Cessna in the event of an engine=20 > failure. It is pretty light. > > The objective of the first hover testing is an altitude of 6=94. Good p= lan. > > Al > I hope it's tethered to prevent rotation as well as height. I wonder if=20 they think they are the first folks to try to counter torque with vanes=20 in the flow from the rotor.... Charlie