VTOL GFS-short NEW

High speed vertical lift aircraft concept, patented by Allen Gerbino.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• aviation
• helicopters
• VTOL
• gerbino
• flight
• boeing
• darpa
• gfs

[DanFrederiksen]

it's an interesting design but I think the dual tiltrotor may ultimately be more elegant.

maybe electric motors.

balancing can easily be solved and if one motor fails the other motor can be throttled down accordingly so it remains balanced. electronics is fast.

[GerbinoFlightSystems]

@DanFrederiksen You know Dan as a pilot and an Aircraft builder I have great dificulties with any type aircraft that needs special circuitry to survive a failure because the pilot and crew can easily become victims of cascading failures. I like the option that when everything that burns fuel stops I can auto-rotate, zero forward speed, or dead stick land my aircraft. This aircraft was designed from the emergency procedures in all flight modes back to the Pilots Seat. By Pilots.

[DanFrederiksen]

@GerbinoFlightSystems it's not 'special circuitry'. and as a pilot you should know that all sizable aircraft rely vitally on the electronics.

plus I see no reason why a tilt rotor couldn't land unpowered just as well as other types. autorotate when vertical or land as a glider when horizontal.

let's not pretend your design has no problematic failure modes.

like with any design it has to be engineered properly.

[GerbinoFlightSystems]

@DanFrederiksen OK, I love flight assist, Hydrolic, Electrical, and Pnuematic. as a fixed wing and comercial helicopter pilot I enjoy those assists. But they are not required to keep the aircraft in the air. Dont have an aircraft that looses its ability to be a controlable platform because of a failure, My type can have an equipment failure, but is a controlable platform. Pilots can over ride failures. It does NOT REQUIRE computers to fly. Tilt rotors can not autorotate. GFS Al

[0n3m1s1s0]

do you have a flying model yet?

[GerbinoFlightSystems]

@0n3m1s1s0 Flew the models in 1992 Al GFS

[medkim14]

whay not make a bigger f35

[tomterahedrob]

Most honestly sensible best VTOL Ive ever seen.I wish you great success for this great design.

[DanFrederiksen]

@GerbinoFlightSystems isn't it true that modern passenger jets cannot be controlled with total electrical failure? hence the term fly by wire. it's not a sin.

[DanFrederiksen]

@GerbinoFlightSystems how is the pavlov concept different from yours?

[garyshouse305]

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