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Jim Thomas - Nov 27,2004 Viewers | Reply


	Here's an interesting design I stumbled across while while cruising Albatross websites. Telescoping wings, repositional belt driven props, steerable gear ala B-52... Lots of gilhoolies to break, and at this point still a paper airplane.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->		Attachments: Triphibian


	Interesting wording in places. 'Safe' for one, I'd say untried,<br /><br />I haveseen the extending wings somewhere else, I think they actually flew but some of the other innovations are a little edgy.<br /><br />Extended belt drives, well I suppose you could say the Wrights did that one though they did not have the pully system with the crank in it.<br /><br />Swivelling prop carriers, wonder what that will do for the trim, especially that high, maybe they will have to end up with a computer run trim system for power ups in different configurations.<br /><br />Snow skis that are prt of the hull? seems like a good idea apart from the complexity of having three systems of U/c manipulation, wheels, skis and 'both.'<br /><br />And the prop pylons slip into the wing thickness at the trailing edge? and then in the water landing config don't the legs have some affect on the aerodynamics?<br /><br />I love their wind tunnels though, and you couldn't accuse them of not doing the homework.<br /><br />I expect exploring the flight envelope of this one would be very interesting indeed.


	And nothing since 1998, did they fall into a black hole?


	Jim, always neat to see new ideas. This one looks like a permament paper airplane though. It should be three different planes until each new major design (gear, engines, wings) is proven. The 'either engine drives both props' idea is used on the V-22 (and some helicopters), but the V-22 has lots of issues, not the least of which is gearbox problems.


	This makes me think of CreativeFlight's Aerocat. They might have an interesting amphib there, but instead of focusing on flying the plane to work out the kinks, they have spent the last year jerking around with experimental engines. Slap a couple of 914s on it and get going! Makes me wonder if the few hours they did put on it gave them pause as to the viability of the whole project and now they are just stalling.


	Here is one for the experts .........<br />2-props running at 1 / 2 power produce more thrust than 1 prop running at full power, soooo ... lets run 4 props at 1 / 4 power or 8 props at 1 / 8 power, are we not talking about some form of perpetual motion here ????<br /><br />Anybody ...............

Frank A. Carr - Dec 06,2004 Viewers | Reply


	What: no dual BRS's? And, no orbital capability? Hope they have better luck with their name too. Our 'Genesis' crashed in the Utah desert.

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