On 3/28/2010 4:51 PM, John wrote:
On Mar 28, 2:21 pm, Pat wrote:
I wish they had described how this is supposed to work; it looks like
the top and bottom counter-rotate, with each having three rotor blades
for VTOL. Whatever it is, Lockheed designed it:http://www.google.com/patents/about?...J&dq=4,802,639

Pat

a riding weedwacker on really vicious steroids?

Could be related to these other things:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=4202
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/F-104VTOLPage.htm
It would be fun to know how the rotors are to be powered; probably via
some sort of turbine gas system whose exhaust goes to the rear nozzles
in forward flight
If you put some sort of RAM on all three flat sides, and make the rotor
blades out of plastics, it might have pretty good stealth characteristics.

Pat