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I haven't looked much into the future design of the quad tiltrotor, if
anybody else has, please post any info you can. But a quadtiltrotor seems to be a promising project. I presume the engines in front and rear would be standard forward-facing props and I guess they would be offset so that the rear props would be pulling "fresh" air (as opposed to air which was already pulled by the front props). My question is why not configure the rear engines as pusher engines? Did the German Arrow aircraft not show that this was an effective combination? Wouldn't that somewhat alleviate the need to offset the engines/props? It would certainly space the props further apart. Disadvantages: I would guess the main obstacle would be the ground configuration of the aircraft. Since the rear props would be pushers, they would have to be pointing down for VTOL. How would the landing gear be positioned so that the A/C would be balanced properly yet not interfere with the rear props spinning rather close to the ground? I can't answer this question off hand, but suspect there might be a solution. Another disadvantage would be the rear pusher engines could not tilt much while on the ground. Since the rear props would be dangerously close to the ground, tilting them a few degrees would put the front blade tips very close to the surface. So the rear engines could not help much in a STO. An STL (I don't know if the current tiltrotor the V-22 Osprey even does this) would be impossible as the bouncing around and any yaw or roll caused by any variation in ground surface would be very dangerous with the rear props so close to the surface. The aircraft would have to be longer than a quad-forward-facing tiltrotor. Since there is more distance between the front and rear props, the tail would have to be set further back to keep it out of the way of the props. Yes there are lots of practical disadvantages, no doubt many I haven't listed. But I bet a quad pusher puller tiltrotor would cook in airplane mode It would be interesting to see the effects of transitioning from airplane to vertiplane mode. I wonder if all four engines could transition at the same time or whether it would be better to rotate the front two by themselves before starting the rear to rotate. I would guess all four engines would have to rotate at the same time as otherwise there would be an imbalance of the vertical lift. |
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