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theory on flight by Jon Bain |
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The
wing rotates providing lift with almost perfect VTOL ability. It glides
while the air-wheel spins, free of external energy input. It is clearly
much more stable than a helicopter. It does not fly fast however, making
it suitable especially for transporting people. The air-wheel has astonishing stability, correcting itself level after a very short drop, its pixiwing flip-flip-flipping the air with perfect aeronautical precision; purely as a result of its shape. It absorbs turbulence more comfortably than a fixed wing, or conventional helicopter, making it ideal for low-flight & heavy atmospheric conditions. |
| The air-wheel utilizes the same aerodynamics as a golf ball, spinning backwards to create a pocket of low-pressure air which is technically lighter than the air around it. According to this description all winged flight is, in effect, lighter than air, if the nature of the moving phenomenon is taken to include both the vehicle & the air around it. (Rockets & missiles are still heavier than air.) |
All winged flight is, in effect, lighter than air. |
My
working models are made from tape, cardboard, toothpick (axel) &
safety pins (bearing) & are 4 to 10 inches across. But they fly
so elegantly, they give me perfect faith, & thus the first fixed
rear wing & front axelled air-wheel pixiwing with dummy cockpit
prototpye is dubbed 'Faith'. Its succesor is called 'Hope', but alas my engineering skills are not on the level of my design skills, and 'Hope' is a little hopeless at present. She broke her 3 foot wingspan, on her maiden landing attempt, after flying quite elegantly & spectacularly across my living room & colliding with the cat, Belladonna. I am awaiting the motorised version 3, 'Charity' to be built by a more accomplished aeronautical engineer. My hand-held model provides 100% evidence that a motorised air-wheel would be extremely fuel efficient. By building a battery powered dynamo into the pixiwing, it can recharge itself on windy Port Elizabeth days, requring little if no external fuel source. Perhaps even a peddle driven vehicle (4-seater) may be viable? |
| In the image below, the wider spinning wing provides better lift, whereas the shorter spinnning wing seems more conducive to flying faster. | |
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This
principle has further application: The semi-vacume generated by the rotating wing, which is conserved by angular momentum, is technically a lighter-than-air bubble, which therefore lifts. This technique can then also be used to bring buoyancy to submerged objects. For example lifting wrecks off the ocean bed. Its effectiveness for generating lift can be compared to the conventional helicopter in this manner. Underwater helicopters, anyone? Foam has been used, as far as I recollect as the most effective, albeit expensive means for lifting wrecks off the seabed. My guess is hp for hp, the pixiwing will proved the most efficient means for either type of lift. Horsepower? Now surely, a horse's speed and power should generate enough forward momentum to get a person airborn, with a bicycle's undercarriage beneath the rotating wing, especially into a stiff breeze... the world abounds with possibilities... |
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