Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
Isaac Newton might have something to say about that. Electric motor mounted on fuselage, drives rotor one way, fuselage must rotate the other way.
The only way around it was like the Djinn, using jet reaction motors on each blade tip. Interesting idea, but horrendously noisy.
Not exactly. If the main rotor is replaced in the same manner as the tail rotor, that is, with a four rotor set. Then someone somewhere might just come up with an idea as to how the tail rotor might be eliminated.