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Old November 27th 03, 03:27 AM
Chad Irby
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"The Enlightenment" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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Still, comparing a simple little helo to a tiltrotor.

That's funny.



Not at all. The controlability issues of hovering flight had been
solved.

What remains is lighter transmissions and powerplants and the problem
of transition from hovering to horizontal flight.


....and the technical problems inherent in that took over twenty years,
just to get a decent handle on it, and a half-century to start getting
to the point it's useful.

Any idiot could draw a plane that had a tilt-rotor configuration.
Making one work is a whole different thing.

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