{"id":188028,"date":"2010-12-26T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/26\/another-day-another-vtol-concept\/"},"modified":"2010-12-26T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T02:48:00","slug":"another-day-another-vtol-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/26\/another-day-another-vtol-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another VTOL Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img707.imageshack.us\/img707\/7550\/e901414c588a4a4f955316b.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img707.imageshack.us\/img707\/7550\/e901414c588a4a4f955316b.png\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nice try<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fan in wing concept, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/aviation_week\/on_space_and_technology\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;newspaperUserId=a68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9c&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3Aa68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9cPost%3Af63af11b-6e39-4240-a88d-f45218394ade&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest\">4 fans and 2 thrusters<\/a>, (Videos at link) better known as a bunch of complex moving equipment that can fail at an inopportune time.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you don&#8217;t just have the fans,. you 6 fans, and their associated transmissions, plus shutters and vanes for control in VTOL mode, as well as thick low aspect ration wings which don&#8217;t have space to carry things like fuel, because they have the fans.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a cynic, but I do not see success here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Nice try It&#8217;s a fan in wing concept, with 4 fans and 2 thrusters, (Videos at link) better known as a bunch of complex moving equipment that can fail at an inopportune time. Remember, you don&#8217;t just have the fans,. you 6 fans, and their associated transmissions, plus shutters and vanes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1226,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-helicopters","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188028"}],"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=188028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}