Inflatable wing aerodynamics
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I live under your bed! and eat your cookies at night!
-Cookie Monster
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Fantastic. Dick Kline (of Kline-Fogelman) sent me here to take a look. Y'all are doing good work. Keep it up.
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I live in Oklahoma! :D
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NASA is experimenting with giant air bags under chopper skids to try to improve survivability during crashes. SINCE an emergency parachute would get caught in the blades, these inflatable wings could provide a bit of lift to slow the crash to a healthier impact- potentially. what do you think?
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where can I find info about the bumped wing aerodinamics improve?
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Tanks!!! Nice job!
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Is the system reliable???
familiamancilha 3 years ago
200 flights and counting with no in flight failures. The wings shown here are Vectran, which is similar to Kevlar, hence making the wings practically indestructible. Even the lighter material wings are very hardy - when they crash into something, the impact energy is absorbed and distributed rather than damaging the structure as with a traditional rigid wing.
jdjacob 3 years ago
How do you cope with varying pressure differentials between the internal structure and the outside environment with changes in altitude?
xjet 3 years ago
Pressure regulators keep the gage pressure constant as altitude is changed.
jdjacob 3 years ago