On Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 6:04:23 PM UTC-4, 2G wrote:
On Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 11:21:45 AM UTC-7, DaleKramer wrote:
I believe I have answered every question.

There is NO reason to compare my design to a helicopter in terms of disc loading since it does not operate like one.

I suggest to you that you read up on multirotor design and control.

I believe that this revolution of flight, over the last decade, has resulted in more multirotor controlled air vehicles flying than all other air vehicles combined.

Yes, perhaps I should mention a little more about that in the link.

I didn't say that you didn't answer the questions; it was your attitude towards me that I called you on.

Your "design" is not a revolution, just a variation on a concept that has been tried in the past and rejected by every aviation company since.

Further review caused me pause; the pilot, along with all controls and instruments, must rotate in two dimensions AND open the cockpit to the full prop down wash during the most critical phases of flight: takeoff and landing. Is this so?

Attitude goes both ways.

I has also been said that no designs are revolutions, just variations.

In hover flight the pilots seat only ever opens a maximum of 90 degrees, the final 20 degrees is when engines are shut down. At 90 degrees, the pilots upper torso is still in the fuselage, the pilots legs from the waist down are enclosed in a secondary shell (with airbags). Airflow should be no worse than an open cockpit aircraft or a motorcycle. This is a 'sport' design and I don't expect it to appeal to the non-sporting. The pilots seat could be fully enclosed and still rotate, but I choose not to do that initially.

The controls are fly by wire so there is very little complexity in that 110 degree travel joint.