Steam powered tilting engine VTOL airplane

Details Steam powered tilting engine VTOL airplane Steam powered tilting engine VTOL airplane

1977-02-14

1978-06-06

Kelmachter, Barry L.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft, heavier-than-air

Airplane and fluid sustained

244 56, 244 60, 416148, 416171, B64C 2900

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040931552

ABSTRACT:
A vertical takeoff and landing airplane has a plurality of rotors which are positioned selectively about the center of balance of the airplane so that it can hover upon failure of any one of the rotors. Each rotor is driven by an associated steam propulsion unit and the rotors and propulsion units are constructed so that they may be tilted about their lateral axes from vertical lift positions to horizontal propulsion positions while the airplane is in flight. The working fluid upon which the propulsion units operate is supplied from two or more combustion centers which are separated from the propulsion units, and which produce a high pressure steam-combustion product mixture, automatically at a constant pressure, which is routed to a common pressure system for powering the individual propulsion units. Should one of the fuel combustion centers fail, the steam pressure requirements are provided for automatically by the remaining fuel combustion centers.

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Butz, "Soviets Study Nuclear Plane Concepts," Aviation Week, Jul. 13, 1959, pp. 64, 65, 67.

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