Originally Posted by
Shagpile
Not to say these things aren’t hard, but there’s far fewer unknown unknowns that have historically been proven to be solvable.
But at what costs and eventual profitability?
From a technical standpoint, as someone who has designed multiple clean sheet rotors and blades, the machined aluminum grip-horn in addition to the CF retention and bearing approach gives me pause. And where is the blade tooling or info on the layup (not the FG, wood, and foam ones from the mockup reveal)? Fatigue test setup for any of these rotor components?