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Old 13th May 2015, 19:19
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ion_berkley
 
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OK I'll bite since I design RADAR stuff amongst other things.

A quick "back of the fag packet calculation" gives me the following:

Lynx rotor disc diameter (as an example): 12.8M
Lynx blade tip speed: 700 feet/sec = ~ 214M/S

Centripetal Acceleration = (v*v)/r = (214 * 214)/6.4 = 7155 M/S^2
i.e 70g constant acceleration.

It's not exactly a friendly environment for a relatively massive, sophisticated and delicate piece of electronics then. Cooling at least would not be such a problem....

Then there's the pragmatic problem of how you service, power and communicate with it.

In other words I suspect that it has theoretical benefits as you point out but is in practical terms a non-starter.
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