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Please remind us all of the advance ratio of the Convertawings and whether or not a full size teetering rotor can fold up without CF applied. Also, the X-22 was a ducted propeller that also would never be able to operate stopped without ridiculous edgewise drag of the duct, so its not remotely germane to the discussion here.All I did was point out the fundamental flaws in your off-the-cuff suggestions that the HSVTOL concept is "absurd concept art" while subsequently proposing objectively more absurd alternatives.The fact the Osprey fold system is not flight rated was essentially my point. It uses 6 heavy discrete individual blade actuators/motors per ship and carries that dead weight around, while the HSVTOL concept dual-uses the main flight control swashplate actuators to perform the fold - which would fly in the face of your claim that it would make for an unusable empty weight fraction.
Please remind us all of the advance ratio of the Convertawings and whether or not a full size teetering rotor can fold up without CF applied. Also, the X-22 was a ducted propeller that also would never be able to operate stopped without ridiculous edgewise drag of the duct, so its not remotely germane to the discussion here.
All I did was point out the fundamental flaws in your off-the-cuff suggestions that the HSVTOL concept is "absurd concept art" while subsequently proposing objectively more absurd alternatives.
The fact the Osprey fold system is not flight rated was essentially my point. It uses 6 heavy discrete individual blade actuators/motors per ship and carries that dead weight around, while the HSVTOL concept dual-uses the main flight control swashplate actuators to perform the fold - which would fly in the face of your claim that it would make for an unusable empty weight fraction.
