Garrow Aircraft’s Verticopter Vtol Concept
Written by admin on October 14, 2009 – 2:45 pm
Californian design frim Garrow Aircraft has taken the wraps off its Verticopter concept for a short/vertical take-off and landing aircraft that has a tilting coaxial propeller on the centre of grav…
Am i the only one thinking of the unstability by the rotor in the same niveau as the most of the weight…?A helicopter is lifted at its top and therefore gets pulled at mostly at the bottom becouse of the higher weight placed there…This will sort of become unstable if the people moves and the wind fx puts pressure at the front or rear end..Am i wrong?
looks like its a inefficient model as yet. maybe for specific mission operations but not a efficient for travel or loads.
Well, it sure is pretty.
Neat concept, I doubt it has the payload capacity of a large helicopter though. With only 2 seats its uses are limited. Perhaps the concept can be carried over to a larger design capable of heavy payload applications. GPH? What about noise levels?
i hate people who get patents before you do! and people just because they got the patten by this corupted world dont make them the ones to come up with idea!
Investors. With people like Moller having robbed investors of their trust towards VTOL and flying car concepts, it’s really hard these days to find people willing to bet their money on such a concept. Radio Control versions are in their test phase right now… and will hopefully be mass-produced within a short while. This should increase people’s trust towards this design and concept.
You’d be surprised… it happens to BE something new. No patents have been filed for such a design, and Garrow Aircraft just got granted its patents for the Verticopter. There’s been attempts at VTOL aircraft, some more successful than others… but this is definitely a new way of doing it. Look into it!
Reminds me of something out of Elite 2
Nicer design than that muller sky car!
it compares well with helicopters for costs. how can you be so sure it is “complex, ineffective” ? it would help if we had some facts to back you what you say. We need more than you have a pilot’s licence.
how is it possible that the prob is in the gravity center of the plane? if one person decides to lean back the gravity point changes. what if theres only one person and not 2 ore what if the throw something out of the window ?