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Old 10th August 2021 | 21:21
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Are there steps and fold-out ladders to climb up and pre-flight those rotor heads?
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Old 11th August 2021 | 07:48
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That image answers my next question - what size can it scale up to?
C-130 like at least it would seem.
Quite the downwash I'd imagine though!
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Old 11th August 2021 | 08:58
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That image answers my next question - what size can it scale up to?
C-130 like at least it would seem.
Quite the downwash I'd imagine though!
There's been a few mods considered for the C130...




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Old 11th August 2021 | 23:31
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Well there you go.
A C-130 Rotodyne... crikey.
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Old 12th August 2021 | 11:22
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Well there you go.
A C-130 Rotodyne... crikey.
Well, when you consider we’ve added forward facing JATO bottles to the C-130 in an attempt to get ultra short field landing capabilities… a stop-fold tiltrotor transport doesn’t sound so insane.
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Old 11th September 2021 | 20:37
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Well, when you consider we’ve added forward facing JATO bottles to the C-130 in an attempt to get ultra short field landing capabilities… a stop-fold tiltrotor transport doesn’t sound so insane.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...e-a-helicopter

The WarZone has a new, more detailed article on the stop fold development history and conceptual vehicles/operations.
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Old 15th September 2021 | 06:38
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I reckon Bell's PR people are reading this thread!

The more I read about Credible Sport, the more incredible it gets.
And if the flight engineer hadn't fired the rockets early - who knows - it might have worked...
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