{"id":194615,"date":"2008-09-06T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/06\/boeing-gets-darpa-helo-contract\/"},"modified":"2008-09-06T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T12:08:00","slug":"boeing-gets-darpa-helo-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/06\/boeing-gets-darpa-helo-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Gets Darpa Helo Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Boeing&#8217;s Canard-Rotar-Wing crashed and burned&#8230;literally&#8230;twice, it appears that <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%3A495e6e74-b0b1-44e3-822a-ba4813a6a0a9\">they will be getting another bite at the apple<\/a>, this time with a concept called Diskrotor, in which retractable rotor blades are housed in a circular wing.<\/p>\n<p>Note that about a year ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/fascinating-compound-helicopter-concept.html\">I mentioned a similar concept<\/a> being explored by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diskrotor.com\/\">small Swiss start up<\/a>, here are some pictures from them, along with a vid:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img256.imageshack.us\/img256\/8558\/1032924956hv7.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img529.imageshack.us\/img529\/5898\/1052942277oh2.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sf0orwya00E&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sf0orwya00E&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Boeing&#8217;s Canard-Rotar-Wing crashed and burned&#8230;literally&#8230;twice, it appears that they will be getting another bite at the apple, this time with a concept called Diskrotor, in which retractable rotor blades are housed in a circular wing. Note that about a year ago, I mentioned a similar concept being explored by a small Swiss start up, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helicopters","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194615"}],"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=194615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}