{"id":190799,"date":"2009-10-24T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/neat-tech-that-wont-be-going-into-aviatiion\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T10:38:00","slug":"neat-tech-that-wont-be-going-into-aviatiion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/neat-tech-that-wont-be-going-into-aviatiion\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat Tech That Won&#8217;t Be Going Into Aviatiion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img190.imageshack.us\/img190\/6122\/dysonfan.png\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>Dyson, the company that uses a centrifugal separator in its vacuum cleaner, has another piece of neat tech, a Bladeless fan that works on the Coanda effect.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a really interesting concept, if you don&#8217;t mind spending <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">$299.99<\/span> for a 10&#8243; freaking table top fan.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Bill Sweetman notes that this technology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aa0b9b1c0-cd62-4ca4-a857-ec2c00a2bbdf\">might have application for a VTOL aircraft<\/a>, though, as he notes this concept is very close to the ejector lift concept that has failed abysmally when it has been tried.<\/p>\n<p>For quieting a fan, it might work, for generating lots of thrust for VTOL, I&#8217;d wait for more tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dyson, the company that uses a centrifugal separator in its vacuum cleaner, has another piece of neat tech, a Bladeless fan that works on the Coanda effect. It&#8217;s a really interesting concept, if you don&#8217;t mind spending $299.99 for a 10&#8243; freaking table top fan. In any case, Bill Sweetman notes that this technology might &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1144,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-consumer-electronics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190799"}],"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=190799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}