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Offline LemonJello

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #525 on: September 27, 2018, 09:06:40 AM »
Just a couple of cell phone photos of something I saw at Modern Day Marine Expo today:





I figured this crowd would appreciate the inspiration.

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #526 on: September 27, 2018, 10:06:45 PM »
So it can only fire the missles from a hover position?
Or maybe it drops out hem and then it flies forward?

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #527 on: September 28, 2018, 10:30:24 AM »
So it can only fire the missles from a hover position?

Something I was trying to overcome with my AV-22 project

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #528 on: September 28, 2018, 10:39:59 AM »
Interrupter gear on the props

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #529 on: September 29, 2018, 12:49:07 AM »
Folks, you don't have to choose between fully horizontal, or fully vertical
rotors.



Rotors at an angle that allows forward firing of weapons wouldn't be hard to accomplish.
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #530 on: September 29, 2018, 01:11:13 AM »
There would have to be some sort in of safety lock to prevent from firing until the rotors were at least the right angle. Not a problem in whiff world.
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #531 on: September 29, 2018, 01:41:40 AM »
It would definitely require a redesigned wing.  The present wing is a very large fuel tank and would need new structure and wiring provisions to add pylons like that, particularly when you consider that the present wing skins are fairly large bonded structural pieces.

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #532 on: September 29, 2018, 02:26:54 AM »
There would have to be some sort in of safety lock to prevent from firing util the rotors were at least the right angle. Not a problem in whiff world.

It wouldn’t be a problem in the real world.  ;D
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #533 on: September 29, 2018, 04:45:38 AM »
You would only get to screw that up once!

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #534 on: September 30, 2018, 08:01:40 AM »
You would only get to screw that up once!

It wouldn’t be something the crew could override, it’d be built-in, hardware
and software. Really not that big a deal all it takes is enough need to make
the business case to spend the $$$$.
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #535 on: December 20, 2018, 02:03:11 AM »
Late one night a CH-47 seduced a young and naive V-22...

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #536 on: December 20, 2018, 02:18:40 AM »
Late one night a CH-47 seduced a young and naive V-22...


Looks like a development of their proposed, and losing, XV-15 design.  It would make sense.

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #537 on: April 10, 2019, 04:45:07 AM »
One I believe was posted earlier but dropped off somewhere:








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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #538 on: April 10, 2019, 05:11:34 AM »
Sh!t, I've never seen that one before Greg. Who's actually proposing something like that then ?

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #539 on: April 10, 2019, 07:05:16 AM »
Plus it can mow your lawn :smiley:
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #540 on: April 10, 2019, 08:22:30 AM »
Plus it can mow your lawn :smiley:

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #541 on: April 10, 2019, 12:20:54 PM »
Looks like a radical development inspired by Grumman's "Nutcracker" concept for the VSTOL-A program.

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #542 on: April 10, 2019, 08:41:37 PM »
The mechanical engineering would be very challenging to make it all work and remain light weight.

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #543 on: April 11, 2019, 02:26:45 AM »
It's a fictional creation guys.  Still... ;)
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #544 on: April 16, 2019, 02:09:31 PM »
I remember seeing one or two of these, but its really neat to see all the iterations and concepts explained  :smiley:
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #545 on: April 16, 2019, 09:56:15 PM »
Jason (jalles) on the What-If Forum is building a V-44, in 3D printed/vacuform

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #546 on: April 17, 2019, 09:02:21 PM »
I like this alot. 

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #547 on: April 18, 2019, 06:21:40 AM »
Very nice.  That looks gorgeous so far.

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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #548 on: April 21, 2019, 01:53:04 AM »
Even the In-progress is looking great. Who are these aliens who build so nicely and in the midst of clean work benches?  ???
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Re: Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
« Reply #549 on: April 21, 2019, 03:27:32 AM »
Even the In-progress is looking great. Who are these aliens who build so nicely and in the midst of clean work benches?  ???

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