Originally Posted by
Jack Carson
I disagree with Nick. Scale up is always an issue. Just look at the growing pains associated the XV-15 evolution to the V-22. A smarter individual than me once said, “The bicycle was designed and built at turn of the last century, yet today you see very few two wheeled Greyhound buses.”
I'd have to disagree with this analogy. At the turn of the 1900's we had powered flight, now we have 747's which fly quite well. In 1939 we had the VS300, and the helicopter grew up quite nicely from this humble start. But, there are some concepts that work very well for small things, like bicycles and model airplanes that hover, and don't scale up well. It seems to me that this latest Sikorsky machine is still a helicopter, and I would expect it would scale up like most helicopters.
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