New Bell tiltrotor idea

[Ascend Charlie]

Are there steps and fold-out ladders to climb up and pre-flight those rotor heads?

[tartare]

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!

[Nige321]

Originally Posted by tartare

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...

[tartare]

Well there you go.
A C-130 Rotodyne... crikey.

[SplineDrive]

Originally Posted by tartare

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.

[SplineDrive]

Originally Posted by SplineDrive

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.

[tartare]

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...