- - City chopper - -
Sugar oil and new rotor system makes the old idea from city copter
possible. Sugar oil allows you to spend and waste oil ... for improved
comfort. New rotor allows you to build sedan sized copters. City-copter fits
to lanes and parking lots. City-copter expands streets to multiple levels,
reduces rushes, etc. The idea is well speculated, only the vehicle is missing.
Copter is luxury vehicle, expensive to buy and drive. This doesn't suit to
the primary idea for mass transport. Mass transport is supposed to be cheap.
It should always be the cheapest way to travel. Ticket to jet airliner is an
awful lot cheaper than the same trip with rented or owned private jet. In
cities copter-bus would be in the same category than underground, buses and
trams. Before gravitational shields, the only thinkable airborne mass
transport for cities is derivate from space lift.
Thrust tail is a problem in copter. Thrust creation leaves a long tail after
it. In the air the tail slows down the followers speed. The slow
down comes from the speed of incoming air. Your own propel gives a
certain speed to the air. This speed is fixed, and the difference in the
speeds of incoming and outgoing air shrinks. With distracter unit, you can
slow down the gas speeds in thrust tail. Unit must have some distance to the
rotor, and the gas which creates the thrust. In principle you can respond to
thrust tail by increasing your own rpm and thrust speed. It is possible and it
does not cost much. If you do not do it, your plane is in danger to fall.
When copter's thrust is directed almost directly
towards ground, thrust tail prevents nearby flights and jumps over another
copters. That's almost all. You must have lots of distance to underlying and
overlying copters. Alternatively you can use rpm adjuster or distracter.
City
copter is not like you have seen in movies. Rotor needs open air from the
above or sides. When you grab the air from the above, it creates a vacuum,
which assists the lift. So. Rotor and engine are in the roof. Just like in
copter. Movie like systems doesn't work. : thrust must be made over the body.
So that gravity keeps the copter stable. Small rotor needs a tail wing like
system, which directs thrust to the sides of the cockpit. Part from the
thrust, which hits the body, pushes the copter down. If car is 1.5 meters
high, city copter is 2.5 meters. The max height comes from the bridges, tunnel
and park houses. They are dimensioned to 4.2 m high vehicles. 2.5 meter copter
can fly in tunnels ( at least with height control system )- Plymouth Duster
can be filled from covered gas pump. It fits into common car washers and
repair shops. Plymouth Duster can be equipped with electro magnetic dust
collector in the bottom plate.
City copter is around 1 meter shorter than car of the same size. Copter
misses the engine room, which is on the roof. Trunk-space is needed for short
tail, left-right steering system. Shortness and chance to drop the copter into
park, makes parking very easy. Engine and crank are in upright position,
engine is dry boxer or dry V engine. It can also be a horizontal star. Star
blocks were used in old propel planes, cylinders are in a circle, which
surrounds the crank in the middle. All pistons rotates the crank at same
position.
City copter is not very dangerous. Airborne collision does not need much
strength. Copter is quite a lot lighter than car. When it comes down, it does
not do awful lot of damage. Car's roof always lasts it's own maximum weight.
Copter with four passengers and full tank could be around 700 kg : Fuel 50 kg,
engine 100 kg, rotor 50 kg, passengers 4 x 70 = 280 kg, body 200 kg = 680 kg.
Demand for small weight obviously prevents wide spread production of copter
cars, with
wheeled transmission.
New rotor system can respond to big changes in payload without
difficulties. When trunk and passenger compartment are full, you use shaper
wing angles and more fuel for the trip. Chopper will not easily run out of
engine or fly power.
?
Think that jet could be immune to thrust tail : Compressor-turbine system rolls
freely. If speed of incoming air raises, compressor-turbine starts to rotate
faster. Unfortunately jet's other qualities prevents the city usage.
In cities copter flies over the streets.
If you have for example 10 000 city copters in the air at the same
time, you cannot control and give advises to each and every copter in the air.
Streets have lanes for bi-directional or one directional traffic. When copters
follow the streets, all they need is traffic lights ... some kind of
height-tube, center and lane markers. Outside towns you can fly rather freely.
At least during the early years.
Flights over houses and blocks are forbidden. What is star engine ?
Star engine is an old plane engine. According to my books standard engine has 6 cylinders,
but it seems that engine had only 5. Pistons are attached to same crank curve. Cylinders forms a circle around crank.
When installed vertically, the block is only around 10 centimeters or 5 inches
high. The diameter is about 70 cm or 20 inch. Crank rotates in same
vertical direction than rotor. Engine is light, it fits to car's typical roof
area. Star engine suits well for powering a rotator and city copter. With star
engine the total height can be compressed to 2 meters or less. Private car's
height ... with wheels ... is around 1.5 meters.
Copter car will kill small private planes.
Don't know. Private plane has wings, they are more economical.
Manufacturing and demand are not that big. When the number of people who can
fly grows, possible that private planes booms with copter car. With new
engine, propel and wing system required strips and space are not very big. Max
sizes and payloads grows. Top
speeds raises quite a lot from current 200 km/h. Before jet engines last
propel air liners cruised with 500-600 km/h speed.
Copter car kills helicopters.
By default you fly copter car on or over the roads. With roadside gas
stations, cafeterias, shops and so on. Copter car replaces some copters, but
not all. But then there are new kinds and better copters coming.
Copter car will kill private cars.
Copter car is a private car. New kind of car, but it is a mass produced
vehicle for bigger masses. Old 4 wheel car is cheaper and simpler to drive.
You cannot tow trailers and caravans with copter car. Copter car releases
streets for pedestrians, bicycles, vans, trucks, trams and buses. Copter car
allows you to build Star wars like park floors into sky drapers. In one
millennium time Star Wars movie, park floor for flying cars was way above the
street level.
Nothing prevents copter car from superseding 4 wheel cars, we'll see.
Future shows. Copter car was warmly welcomed, with greater interest, in all
around the world. Something very different from the small and slow
electric-eco-car prototypes for future cities.
From the below you find general guide lines for first RC models and fully
functional prototypes. In principle you can start the production of right
away.