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Lifting Body, Flapjack II

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This is my newest baby, very strange as usual from my Experimentals lineup.

Syros is an electric, twin fan, lifting body. Two passenger with some 'slight' variable thrust fan movement, mainly to help with STOL take-offs. Another 'exercise' in stretching the world of modern aircraft design.
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These are renderings (for those that might now know). It isnt in Flight Simulator (P3D) yet. Still working out details on the aeroshell; panels that rotate and flip up and do wild things. Trying to figure out how the pilot will get in. There will be an RG version as well.

I was thinking it would be fun to make it a bush supply plane. Cargo for the back seat and in the wings. Wings could have opening panels/doors for storage of 'some' lite cargo for the wing cavities.

Motors are twin Tesla automobile motors, mounted on X axis in the wings (pointing outward). Ailerons have fans on them, those rotate on a collar, the fans drive shafts come into the aileron pods through the collar, U-joints take the power up the fan pylons to the blades.

Trying to make it very simple. The elevators would have some aileron movement as well.

Trying to make it without a rudder. That would be replaced by some popup wind catchers that are at 45 deg angles. One side would flip up, both top and bottom, causing Yaw input. Thats the plan so far. (Remember, birds have no rudders).
 
The huge surface would indeed suit a solar cell installation. Might be a nice challenge in the materials department to boot.
 
It would be interesting if you could power this with a single PT6 installed at the fuselage center, with an interconnect drive shaft driving the propellers, just for fun ;-)
 
pinkjr said:
It would be interesting if you could power this with a single PT6 installed at the fuselage center, with an interconnect drive shaft driving the propellers, just for fun ;-)
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That would be fun for an alternate version. Thanks PinkJr.
 
Creating the flight dynamics will be interesting.



(By the way, Bill: If you ever run out of ideas (crazy thought, I know), I've got a real world aircraft that might be right down your alley.
http://www.tomarkaero.com/en/aircraft/vipersd4
It's an ultralight, it comes as a kit, it has a bit of horsepower so it's fast, it's pleasant to fly and has glass in the 'pit. And I recently spent most of a glorious hour at its controls.)
 
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