Boeing Canard-Rotor Wing

KiwiZac · February 19, 2009, 11:33:36 PM

Hi guys

Anyone have any images of this honey? The book "X-Planes" by David Oliver and Mike Ryan has a very nice "action shot" painting of a couple, but I can't find anything else online. The closest is this one, from the game Tom Clancy's EndWar:

I'm going to make one based off the Italeri 1:72 RAH-66 Comanche. Progress as and when. I thought this build may provoke a bit more interest here than some of my other recent ones

solidmodeler · February 20, 2009, 04:37:46 AM

This Boeing design is a bit different from yours...http://www.powmadeak47.com/powmia/mil00.html

PR19_Kit · February 20, 2009, 04:53:57 AM

Hm, when they're in helicopter mode what stops the fuselage anti-rotating?

There's no tail rotor, no co-axial main rotor and no air jet like an MD-500......

Weaver · February 20, 2009, 04:56:46 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 20, 2009, 04:53:57 AM
Hm, when they're in helicopter mode what stops the fuselage anti-rotating?

There's no tail rotor, no co-axial main rotor and no air jet like an MD-500......

IIRC, the rotor is tip-driven, so no need for a counter-torque system.

PR19_Kit · February 20, 2009, 05:06:27 AM

Quote from: Weaver on February 20, 2009, 04:56:46 AM
IIRC, the rotor is tip-driven, so no need for a counter-torque system.

That's cheating.

jcf · February 20, 2009, 08:29:04 AM

Get ye to the holy confines of Secretprojects young Zachariah:

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,775.0.html

Mossie · February 20, 2009, 08:33:21 AM

Some more on Secret Projects Zac:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6145.0/highlight,boeing+rot+canard+wing.html

Sauragnmon · February 20, 2009, 10:46:12 AM

I dunno, in principle there Could be an airjet in that weird tailboom that sits above the center of the tail. It's definately a Weird concept, and it could be interesting, potentially, if it were ever to be seriously worked on... much similar to an attack tiltrotor concept might be an interesting concept one of these days.

KiwiZac · February 20, 2009, 11:39:50 AM

Well Boeing made a UAV demonstrator, the X-50, but both prototypes crashed.....look it up on my holy of holies, Wikipedia

KiwiZac · February 20, 2009, 11:42:35 AM

For some exceedingly annoying reason, none of the pictures at SecretProjects load for me. There's a ton of people saying "here's a very nice pic for you1" and then blank!!!

jcf · February 20, 2009, 11:53:40 AM

Zac, you have to be logged in as a member.

Jon

KiwiZac · February 21, 2009, 03:44:49 PM

*blushes*

RotorheadTX · February 22, 2009, 07:31:41 AM

Holey buckets!! That's the first I've seen of a CRW Comanche..... well done!

As previously mentioned, both of the X-50 demonstrators crashed, and the project was canned.
From what I recall, there were some aerodynamic issues that cropped up, which I find startling in this day and age of CFD design-testing.

Boeing Canard-Rotor Wing

solidmodeler

RotorheadTX