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Russell Duffy wrote:

> Check out the dimesional drawings.  Is that big round disk on the output
> shaft a blower?  I'd hate to think that he might have somehow procured a
> patent on that particular idea.
>
>  
> Looks like an enclosure for a flywheel.  Note the starter poking into 
> it from the engine side. 
>  
> Just can't wait for that flying car to get finished.  I imagine 
> they're still trying to get the MTBF (Mean Time Between FATALITY) up 
> to double digit minutes  :-)
>
What is that hose looking thing coming off and around the engine?  
Forced cooling for an alternator?

I can wait.  Moller's whole concept is idiotic from the drawing-board, 
as is the Marine's newest money pit.  It grates my last nerve that 
everyone doesn't see how foolish the concept is from basic principles of 
common sense.  It's a completely "fail-disastrous" design, in that if 
you lose an engine there is no way to have a controlled decent.  
Helicopters have autorotation, planes have glide ratio, balloons tend to 
deflate slowly and don't depend on a complicated machine that's trying 
to throw itself apart in the first place.  Anything designed to fly by 
balancing a load between running engines is criminal foolishness.  An 
engine gives out (high likelyhood), what'r ya' gonna do now? ...  DIE!!

The Marines are doubly guilty.  The operational profile for the Osprey 
is to insert and remove troops in close quarters with the enemy.  One 
bullet to one engine and it's game over.

Please excuse my rant.  Do not archive.  Off-topic.  (Probably) complete 
bull$n17

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