As of JanuaryĢ5, 2019, the 480B joins the other Enstrom models listed under FAA Type Certificate H1CE which have been approved for operation in Canada including the F-28A, 280, F-28C, F-28C-2, 280C, F-28F, 280F, and 280FX. Enstrom Helicopter Corporation has earned Transport Canada validation of their model 480B helicopter. The company has a diversified portfolio of top-tier customers and holds over 500 FAA STCs. It has grown to become an industry-recognized leader in aviation lighting, as well as in aircraft speed modifications. LoPresti Aviation was founded in Sebastian, Florida in 1991. Whelen’s Aviation Division and LoPresti will be combined into a single organization named Whelen Aerospace Technologies, or WAT. Whelen Engineering Company has completed an acquisition and spin-off of its Aviation Division with LoPresti Aviation. The technology acquired by Jaunt is the similar to that used by Carter's Personal Air Vehicle, which is still undergoing flight tests. Little is known about the company other than it was founded last May by New Jersey engineer and entrepreneur Kaydon Stanzione. Jaunt Air Mobility was introduced at the Vertical Flight Society symposium in January. Those can be just as fun.Also: Gone West-WASP Mildred Doyle, Red Bull Selects Hartzell, Jazz Pilots Ratify, Sala Malibu LocatedĪ startup Urban Air Mobility (UAM) company has acquired the rights to the Carter slowed-rotor compound (SR/C) technology developed by Carter Aviation Technologies for personal and air taxi aircraft. Proof is in the numbers and experiments though. Reality has a tendency to shatter dreams. You can take an existing technology and turn it into so much more. What design changes would you have to make to handle transonic speeds? Doesn't it get you thinking? You could end up with a supersonic aircraft that doesn't have to land or take off from pavement, let alone a runway. The rotor was redesigned by Carter Aviation Technologies just to crate the slow rotor tech. The real question could the rotor be designed in such a way to handle such speeds. Could it be pushed to supersonic speeds? Lifting bodies can even do hypersonic speeds. Some major aerodynamics would be utilized in such a project. Could such a lifting body be designed? Would its performance be better than wings? Would it be stable enough? Would it really be worth it? These are the questions engineering would answer on paper. It should also provide a good volume inside the body for accommodate crew, passengers, and cargo. The benefit of a lifting body to the craft is that it would have less drag while in cruise increasing the lift to drag ratio. I imagine a rather thin one with a rounded nose and a bulbous dorsal. The lifting body has to provide lift for the craft at cruise, stability for flight, and allow for enough down wash of air from the rotors for takeoff and landing. Now, the engineering needed to fashion an appropriate lifting body for the Carter Copter has to be creative. So it could be a good candidate for the Carter Copter. In fact it needed a lot of speed even to land. A lifting body needs speed to provide lift. They are to provide lift during cruise at speed. They are not used to provide lift during takeoff and landings, the rotor does that. The wings on the Carter Copter are long and thin. Now that may sound strange or even insane, but bear with me a minute. What if the Carter Copter had a different wing configuration? Actually I was thinking about a lifting body configuration.
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