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Aerocopter Sarus
AeroCopter Inc. is a new venture backed by YAS Ventures LLC and two Entrepreneurs Siamak Yassini and George Syrovy and it is aimed at pioneering the third generation of airborne transportation. Overview Five years of research with three universities culminate in AeroCopter’s Sarus and Kestrel, Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft utilizing Counter Rotating Co-Axial Twisted Rotor Blades. The Sarus and Kestrel enable on-demand and point-to-point high speed air transportation services: Safe,,Scalable,SATS/Highway in the Sky compatible, Multi-market Opportunities, Sarus: Commercial and Private, Kestrel: Military/Civilian UAV Technology Breakthrough: Counter-Rotating Mono-Tilt-Rotor (MTR) architecture Unique co-axial rotor configuration, Electronically controlled blade, Unified propulsion system for hover and cruise modes, Frictionless rotary ring utilizing Magnetic Levitation (MAGLEV) technology, Low cost maintenance and high reliability compared with existing Tiltrotor aircraft. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiltrotor
A tiltrotor is an aircraft which generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called ''proprotors'') mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles usually at the ends of a fixed wing. Almost all tiltrotors use a transverse rotor design, with a few exceptions that use other multirotor layouts. Tiltrotor design combines the VTOL capability of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft. For vertical flight, the rotors are angled so the plane of rotation is horizontal, generating lift the way a normal helicopter rotor does. As the aircraft gains speed, the rotors are progressively tilted forward, with the plane of rotation eventually becoming vertical. In this mode the rotors provide thrust as a propeller, and the airfoil of the fixed wings takes over providing the lift via the forward motion of the entire aircraft. Since the rotors can be configured to be more efficient for propulsion (e.g. with root-tip twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
