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Kevin O'Brien,
Your attack on the technical aspects of rotorcraft concepts is much appreciated. A lesser person would have attacked the individual. Dave J. |
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Dave,
I hold five patents and have three pending in the field of flight controls for helicopters and tiltrotors. But I have to give a lot of credit for these patents to the very smart and experienced engineering *******s that told me my ideas would never work (they did word it as nicely however). In most cases their negativity was based on previous failed attemps they had not experienced directly but had read about. Further investigation, spurred on by the urge to prove them wrong often proved them to be correct, but only for a limited set of constraints. I was able to learn a lot from others failures and was able to take advantage of technology advancements that we not available at the time to make my ideas practical. Don't let the nay sayers get you down. Learn what you can from them and let them spur you on to try to prove them wrong. Good luck, CTR |
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Dave,
Just wanted to say that I have visited your site for the first time in several years and I did want to express admiration for the amount of work that you have put in and the amount of research that you have gathered and placed online. There seem to be some papers on the Flettner there? If my hasty assessment is correct, I look forward to reading them. I don't know enough about the Flettner (or the Doblhoff either). I see many conclusions with which I disagree, and even some stated facts that strike me as mistaken, but it has been a prodigious effort on your part and deserves a salute on that basis. An example of the thing that gets to me... Hiller couldn't compete effectively? He beat some of the big guys. He sold a great number of H-23s to the US military after beating competition including Bell for the contracts, over a period of 15+ years. I bet the sales guys from Bell and Hughes felt pretty lousy when those contracts were awarded. On top of that, Hiller sold several hundred civilian 360s. Plus a couple hundred 1100s. (The H-23 is a great machine, and still well supported, unlike its contemporary the Bell 47). Incidentally, Stanley Hiller started with coaxials (I know, not the same thing as intermeshing rotors at all). But it's interesting that a guy who pioneered that design abandoned it and went to his own version of the penny-farthing design. Do you know why? (I'm not being facetious, I don't know and thought you might). I would suggest that building and selling rotorcraft is a business, and that designs and companies succeed and fail more frequently for business that technical reasons, IMHO. The Beta/VHS or Mac/PC model, as it were. -- cheers -=K=- Rule #1: Don't hit anything big. |
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