Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
With all the Carbon Fibre and messaging, I was thinking the same. It comes across as the lovechild of Theranos and Oceangate.
Hopefully a bit more care goes into this engineering effort. If not, it will at least be a lot easier to find.
Going deeper into the carbon fiber issue, I see no consideration being given to the heat impingement from the turbine exhaust directly onto the tailboom. The adhesives they appear to be using are low grade/low temperature systems; not good. I worked on a composite tailboom program in the early 90s and one of our main considerations was heat exposure. We identified BMI resins as a solution, providing a heat shield would also be used. If you look at existing helicopters with metal tailbooms today, you will see many are now using heat shields for this reason.
Fly Safe, Always
