Can ANYone help me design a UFo type vehicle with jet engines providing vertical takeoff without rotary blades?
Posted by James on October 23, 2010 · 3 Comments
Question by blakedellefave: Can ANYone help me design a UFo type vehicle with jet engines providing vertical takeoff without rotary blades?
Not talkin helicopters. More along the lines of UFO alien vehicle type designs that use micro jet engines for lift. Only need it to fit 1 person in cockpit with glass dome for windshield and instrument reading board to hold portable gps system and CB radio. Preferably a more modern design. Doesn’t have to b proffesional evn a picture will do. No design is stupid. * all design welcome example=
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Ive got about 900 pounds of thrust with all three engines
Two for thrust and 1 for stabilizing the aircraft
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Answer by metaphoricwolf
It is possible but probably but not very practical while flying. The problem is not going up but moving around in the air and then landing. I guess I could make the body move like a Frisbee but that could take years to actually come up with the right design. As for jet engines you might want to consider them not being micro but built into the vehicle so where people only see the bottoms. As for trying to land something like that I have no idea.
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Boeing Aircraft or Bell Helicopter might be interested in taking you on as a partner.
What you are proposing is a VTOL aircraft. Believe it or not, a couple of other people have had this very same idea! See the “Wheel of Misfortune” for the sad and sorry history…
http://www.vstol.org/wheel/wheel.htm
It’s been done but had stability problems.
Google or wiki ‘flying bedstead’ .
With modern solid state controls it is possible.
The Harrier ‘jump jet’ does it with ducted jet exhaust.
Takes far too much power to be practical in a small system though.