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X-2 The Worlds Fastest Helicopter

Jangler

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charlotte49er Newbie

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Just wondering if two opposite spinning props like the rotors would increase speed, mobility, handling, ect.

I would think so. The 2 blade system eliminates the need for a tail rotor. Toy choppers have been using this for years. I maybe wrong, but I think the Germans perfected it back in WWII. What's new, as far as I know is mating it up with a "Pusher Prop" at the rear and the use of Fly By Wire. Planes have been Fly By Wire since the introduction of the F-16. There have been planes that used counter rotating propellers and even the Pusher Prop system. Natural evolution would say that a helo would adapt this technology.

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The speed and the sound would be the main selling point. You don't hear the usually, ***, ***, *** that any helo built to this time has. I wonder how they were able to get by with the blades and air compression. That's the problem with prop airplanes. The prop compresses the air in front of it, making it very difficult to acheive the speed of sound in level flight. (It's long been argued that the F-4 Corsair and P-38 both broke the speed of sound in dives.)

This is pretty amazing.

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The prop compresses the air in front of it, making it very difficult to acheive the speed of sound in level flight.

Isn't it that the leading edge of the rotor itself cannot exceed the speed of sound rather than the aircraft itself?

As in the forward speed of the helicopter is limited by the speed at which the leading edge of the end of the rotor is travelling? Or the maximum speed of the aircraft is the speed of sound minus the rotor speed?

Does any of that make any sense? :)

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Isn't it that the leading edge of the rotor itself cannot exceed the speed of sound rather than the aircraft itself?

As in the forward speed of the helicopter is limited by the speed at which the leading edge of the end of the rotor is travelling? Or the maximum speed of the aircraft is the speed of sound minus the rotor speed?

Does any of that make any sense? :)

That makes sense to me. I know more about prop planes than I do about helicopters. (Though I always wanted to get my helicopter license.) I do know there are some that can do a loop! AKA Blue Thunder.

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