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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:16:01 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote in :: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:03:01 -0700, "aluckyguess" wrote in :: It will never have the speed of a Glassair. For the CarterCopter to achieve the speed of a Glassair, would require considerable power I believe. There's also the stability issue of the rotor disk in the relative wind at high speed to address. It would take a cleaver fellow in deed to successfully meet Carter's goals. But I wouldn't characterize them as impossible. Here's some more information about the subject TV broadcast: ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 11, Number 16b -- April 21, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR NEXT CAR COULD BE AN AIRCRAFT... Flying cars are back in the news this week, thanks to Nevada inventor Woody Norris, who is working on an ultralight helicopter called the AirScooter. Norris has won a prestigious inventors' award -- for his work in acoustics, not aviation -- and he and his flying machine were featured in Sunday night's "60 Minutes" show on CBS. Norris has developed a new four-stroke engine for his AirScooter, which has two counter-rotating rotors, and he says it is stable and easy to control. A video clip at his Web site shows the single-seat AirScooter taking off vertically, maneuvering just a few feet above the ground and returning to its launch site. An unmanned version is also in the works. Norris says AirScooters will be available for sale later this year at $50,000 apiece. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#189613 60 Minutes personality, Ed Bradley, was able to get the AirScooter* undercontrol in a few minutes of practice. This looks like the one to watch in the short term. ...DEEP POCKETS COULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE "60 Minutes" also looked at the CarterCopter and the Moller SkyCar. The CarterCopter prototype has been flying off and on for a few years, but was sidelined by a wheels-up landing and then by an in-flight fire. SkyCar inventor Paul Moller says his futuristic vehicle will fly like a "magic carpet," but so far it has test-flown only while tethered to a crane. But it probably comes closest to the Jetson-style flying car that people imagine the future should bring. Michael Kanellos, of CNET News, speculated last week that flying cars could be the next thing to attract the attention -- and the assets -- of the high-tech billionaires and entrepreneurs who have been funding much of the new space industry. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#189614 Perhaps these folks should be contacted regarding the latest developments in this area of aviation: http://www.venturewire.com/Default.aspx * http://www.airscooter.com/pages/airscooter_main.htm |
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