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Carter copter9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() If I was Sikorsky, McDonnell, Boeing or any other conventiional helicopter, gyroplane or hybrid manufacturer, you have to pay attention to what Jay Carter accomplished and did it without a major companies bank roll either. The CarterCopter just made the advancement of rotorcraft airspeeds possible for all rotorcraft except converti-planes, such as the V-22. The chips can calculate in less than a blink of an eye the compression rate and other factors and meter the dampening effect based off of the data from the chip. Several design concepts have been developed from the research demonstrator such as a superior design of landing gear oleo struts that have an imbeded circuit chip. ![]() The long wings on the fuselage become more effective at high airspeeds and the rotor is actually positioned so as to slow the rotor rpm - thereby reducing drag and increasing the airspeed of the craft. The tip of the rotor blades are offset from the rest of the leading edge and house a large mass of weight to provide a large inertia mass. The Carter Copter has a rotor of unique design shape that best distributes the weight and blade cord angle at high speed cruise. The purpose of the craft was to verify the slowed rotor concept with a design goal of achieving a Mu of 1. The gyroplane is a fully enclosed advanced design with extensive use of composite materials throughout. ![]() Those can be just as fun.2000-2006: The CarterCopter is an experimental proof-of-concept aircraft. Proof is in the numbers and experiments though. Reality has a tendency to shatter dreams. You can take an existing technology and turn it into so much more. What design changes would you have to make to handle transonic speeds? Doesn't it get you thinking? You could end up with a supersonic aircraft that doesn't have to land or take off from pavement, let alone a runway. The rotor was redesigned by Carter Aviation Technologies just to crate the slow rotor tech. The real question could the rotor be designed in such a way to handle such speeds. Could it be pushed to supersonic speeds? Lifting bodies can even do hypersonic speeds. Some major aerodynamics would be utilized in such a project. Could such a lifting body be designed? Would its performance be better than wings? Would it be stable enough? Would it really be worth it? These are the questions engineering would answer on paper. It should also provide a good volume inside the body for accommodate crew, passengers, and cargo. The benefit of a lifting body to the craft is that it would have less drag while in cruise increasing the lift to drag ratio. I imagine a rather thin one with a rounded nose and a bulbous dorsal. The lifting body has to provide lift for the craft at cruise, stability for flight, and allow for enough down wash of air from the rotors for takeoff and landing. Now, the engineering needed to fashion an appropriate lifting body for the Carter Copter has to be creative. So it could be a good candidate for the Carter Copter. In fact it needed a lot of speed even to land. A lifting body needs speed to provide lift. They are to provide lift during cruise at speed. They are not used to provide lift during takeoff and landings, the rotor does that. The wings on the Carter Copter are long and thin. Now that may sound strange or even insane, but bear with me a minute. What if the Carter Copter had a different wing configuration? Actually I was thinking about a lifting body configuration. ![]()
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