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Old 5th February 2008 | 06:36
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Dave_Jackson
 
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Max,

The basic idea is to have two independent streamtubes for lift get combined into one streamtube for propulsion.
Your second sentence is correct.

However. it appears that your idea is not changing the 'effective' disk area from when the rotors are facing up (lift) to when they are facing forward (propulsion).

Is this a one rotor version of your idea?
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/6,382,556

or ~ if the above does not work

This patent number 6,382,556 to go in this page http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm


Dave

Last edited by Dave_Jackson; 5th February 2008 at 19:08. Reason: The word 'first' is changed to 'second'.
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