{"id":184440,"date":"2012-04-29T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/29\/not-safety-and-simplicity-too-many-parts\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T01:07:00","slug":"not-safety-and-simplicity-too-many-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/29\/not-safety-and-simplicity-too-many-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Safety and Simplicity, Too Many Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0ixkW.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0ixkW.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>So someone has decided that it might be a good thing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:a68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9c&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3Aa68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9cPost%3Aee5d4cec-2142-4a5b-bc61-38faa193bff9\">add even more moving parts to a rotorcraft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A strange, 16-propeller vertical take-off and landing craft has been awarded the Lindberg Prize for Innovation at the Aero-Friedrichshafen 2012 airshow in Germany. It is an example of the unusual configurations made possible by distributed electric propulsion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is true.  It<b> is<\/b> unusual.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also completely impractical.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a single multi-engine aircraft that takes off with an engine out, and in this case, there are 16 engines that might fail.<\/p>\n<p>If you lose an engine, you either don&#8217;t take off, or, if you are in flight, you set down as soon as you can.<\/p>\n<p>While this aircraft may (according to its inventors) be able to land safely with &#8220;several props failed&#8221;, it won&#8217;t make its destination with even <b>one<\/b> of the props failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So someone has decided that it might be a good thing to add even more moving parts to a rotorcraft: A strange, 16-propeller vertical take-off and landing craft has been awarded the Lindberg Prize for Innovation at the Aero-Friedrichshafen 2012 airshow in Germany. It is an example of the unusual configurations made possible by distributed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226,1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helicopters","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}