5 Comments:

• This is a joke right?
  
  How can a 3 cylinder 110 hp engine produce enough rpm's for the fan blade to be effective?
  Where is the 100 ft wing assembly?
  How can a small motor craft lift something with a 2200lb down pull?

  By  Anonymous, at 9/08/2005 01:34:00 PM  

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• As the designer of the Chimera vehicle I can assure you it is for real. you can view pictures of it flying on the atairaerospace.com website
  
  To understand how a "small motor can lift something with a 2200lb down pull?" you need to learn some basic physics. The following link is a good starting point:
  
  http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/forces.html
  
  The chimera vehicle btw has a higher thrust to weight ratio than a 747 aircraft. Realize the job of the engine is just to overcome the drag of the airplane, not to lift the airplane. "A 1 million pound airliner has 4 engines that produce a grand total of 200,000 of thrust. The wings are doing the lifting, not the engines. In fact, there are some aircraft, called gliders that have no engines at all, but fly just fine. Some external source of power has to be applied to initiate the motion necessary for the wings to produce lift. But during flight, the weight is opposed by both lift and drag. Paper airplanes are the most obvious example, but there are many kinds of gliders. Some gliders are piloted and are towed aloft by a powered aircraft, then cut free to glide for long distances before landing. During reentry and landing, the Space Shuttle is a glider; the rocket engines are used only to loft the Shuttle into space."

  By  Daniel Preston, at 9/13/2005 05:35:00 AM  

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• It says you can take off into flight from the ground too, how would you steer the thing?

  By  Anonymous, at 2/16/2006 01:27:00 PM  

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• I posted the above question on steering

  By  MARK, at 2/16/2006 01:28:00 PM  

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• you would steer it the same as a para glider.

  By  Anonymous, at 9/11/2008 08:05:00 AM  

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