This is truly novel.
"One of the few truly new aircraft since the Wright Brothers" Clive Thompson, New York Times
H/T DucSup
Monday, 9 February 2009
A 'Great' British Invention......'The Fanwing'
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3 comments:
The fanwing looks great but at first sight isn't it a ultra-high aspect ratio cycloidal propeller blowing air across the top of an aerofoil? The vertical endplates on the wing appear to increase both aerodynamic and structural efficiency.
Here's a bit on cyclogyros (aircraft with cycloidal props) which hit a technological brickwall in the thirties:
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/cyclogyro/cyclogyro.htm
No criticism of the fanwing is intended because it's at the development stage that helicopters were in the early forties.
That is really wild! Just when you think there's nothing new under the sun...
I'll bet you could chew up a whole FLOCK of geese with that thing!
You mean since Richard Pearce.
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