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Re: transporting VTOLs aboard dropships
« Reply #60 on: 16 August 2012, 17:34:21 »
I was thinking a flatbed type with clamps holding the chopper, released by the truck driver/pilot, with a low cab so the helo can start right up

Tell you what: look in your yellow pages for shipping companies that move heavy equipment; call them up and see if you can go on a ride-along for a large piece of machinery. See how the thing has to be secured and then unsecured at the destination: qwik-clamps ain't gonna cut it.

Of course, if you want to go high fantasy, you can Charlie's Angels/Airwolf it and drop it with the rotors off and turn them on as it falls.... ::)

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Re: transporting VTOLs aboard dropships
« Reply #61 on: 16 August 2012, 18:17:14 »
Of course, if you want to go high fantasy, you can Charlie's Angels/Airwolf it and drop it with the rotors off and turn them on as it falls.... ::)
There was a German WW2 fighter that relied on something like that, not as silly as it sounds

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Re: transporting VTOLs aboard dropships
« Reply #62 on: 16 August 2012, 19:04:11 »
besides, with Airwolf, you just need to have the jet's going, it would totally work :D
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Re: transporting VTOLs aboard dropships
« Reply #63 on: 17 August 2012, 08:00:24 »
There was a German WW2 fighter that relied on something like that, not as silly as it sounds

The prop of a fighter is a different beast than the prop of a helo; in single-rotor designs, the torque effectively slows the rotation of the rotor (because the body in freefall is torquing in the opposite direction; remember that the tail rotor/equivalent is not turning either). Further, the lifting/aerodynamic surfaces of the fighter can be used to point the nose down in order to gain speed; helos can't do that; worse; if you actually manage to start the rotors, there is no guarantee that the plane of the rotor will be at a useful angle with the ground; if the hello flips over or noses down, it will not fly even if the rotors get up to speed.

Autogyro rotation? works only once the rotors are up to speed; if attempted with the rotors at a dead stop, they don't gain enough speed to be useful.

besides, with Airwolf, you just need to have the jet's going, it would totally work :D

I'd rather use Charlie's Angels' Luck of the JediTM feat; jets or no, Airwolf has no useful control flat-flight surfaces; if it is pointed down, it might break the sound barrier in a terminal case of deconstructive lithobreaking.  ::)

 

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