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I'm not aware of any tip-jet helicopters that have made it into
production. Please correct me if I'm wrong. At first the idea seems a no-brainer, no torque to counter, no gearbox, should result in a lighter & thus more efficient aircraft. I suppose the devil is in the details. Is the problem with tip-jets the rotor hub? Either you have to pass fuel or hot gas through the rotor hub to the blades. I guess sealing a rotating assembly with hot gases flowing through may be a non-trivial problem? But that shouldnt be a problem for jets-at-the-tips type designs, fuel would not be hot enough to damage seals. Perhaps there is a inherant flaw in the jets-at-the-tips style design? I've seen videos of the Hughes heavy lift helicopter that directed the output of a couple of turbojets(/fans ?) through the blades. I thought that design was successful, it was more a matter of funding that it wasnt put into production, am I wrong? Jeremy Thomson |
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