{"id":195380,"date":"2008-07-13T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/13\/stopped-rotor-still-being-pursued\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:26:00","slug":"stopped-rotor-still-being-pursued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/13\/stopped-rotor-still-being-pursued\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopped Rotor Still Being Pursued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has been working on stopped rotor concept helos, where the rotor is stopped and functions as a wing at high speed, for years, despite the crashes of both of its prototype X-50 canard rotor wing (CRW) demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like they folks at Boeing, Mesa<sup>*<\/sup> have come up with a <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%3Ad5fc1583-d8b7-4930-b087-add6a7f22725\">a less ambitious take on this concept that has not yet crashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is significantly simplified, dispensing with the  tip jet power for the main rotor, and using a conventional tail rotor, and the wings pivot, so as to  reduce the amount that they reduce lift during takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/325069712.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Takeoff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/325069691.jpg\" \/><br \/>Transition to low speed forward flight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/325069732.jpg\" \/><br \/>High speed compound helicopter mode.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/325070095.jpg\" \/><br \/>Stopped rotor<\/div>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Formerly McDonnell Douglas helicopters, formerly Hughes Helicopter.  They make the Apache.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has been working on stopped rotor concept helos, where the rotor is stopped and functions as a wing at high speed, for years, despite the crashes of both of its prototype X-50 canard rotor wing (CRW) demonstrators. Well, it looks like they folks at Boeing, Mesa* have come up with a a less ambitious &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-195380","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\/195380"}],"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=195380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}