The next big advance in flight?

[unixronin]

radarrider pointed out this article about a guy who may just have come up with a quieter, safer, more efficient replacement for the majority of helicopter applications.  This could be The Next Big Thing in aviation.

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I kinda wonder that noone thought of this before. I mean, if I had known that people were looking for a solution to this problem, embedding a squirrel cage fan inside of an airfoil probably would have occured to me.

Oh well, anyway.

I wanna build one.

I think I was born 100 years too late. I would love to have been able to build my own car, motorcycle, airplane, whatever. Nowadays you have to jump through so many goddamned government hoops it's almost not worth the effort.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've had all kinds of ideas that I've later discovered have Already Been Done.