Pelican
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Pelican
No, not the Boeing Pelican, but this Pelican which grew out of the same original research project....
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article....med At Airlift
A revolutionary aircraft prototype is now in the final stages of assembly and integration in a World War II airship hangar in Tustin, Calif. Developed by Aeros Corp., a California start-up, and funded by the Defense Department as a potential long-range transportation technology, the Pelican combines buoyant and aerodynamic lift in a different way from other lighter-than-air and hybrid vehicles, and is designed to be more efficient, more flexible and easier to handle on the ground. Its designers think that it could be evolved quickly into a vehicle with a C-17-like payload and range, combined with vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) capability...........
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article....med At Airlift
A revolutionary aircraft prototype is now in the final stages of assembly and integration in a World War II airship hangar in Tustin, Calif. Developed by Aeros Corp., a California start-up, and funded by the Defense Department as a potential long-range transportation technology, the Pelican combines buoyant and aerodynamic lift in a different way from other lighter-than-air and hybrid vehicles, and is designed to be more efficient, more flexible and easier to handle on the ground. Its designers think that it could be evolved quickly into a vehicle with a C-17-like payload and range, combined with vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) capability...........
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Do you think when it hatches from that pupa it will come out a giant butterfly?
Looks impressive.
Looks impressive.
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the Pelican combines buoyant and aerodynamic lift in a different way from other lighter-than-air and hybrid vehicles, and is designed to be more efficient, more flexible and easier to handle on the ground
Lighter-than-air as had been said before is 'snake oil' that comes around as often as that tired carousel of slides of you as a 4 year old at your parents house...
Try investing cash into cold-fusion or anti-gravity and you would stand a better chance of success...
Michael J Fox hoverboard anyone?LJ
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