Timeline for Are fixed wing aircraft with gimbal thrust feasible?
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| Dec 13, 2019 at 8:10 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @user3528438: That would be electric missiles, then. Haven't seen one yet. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 5:15 | answer | added | user3528438 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 4:23 | comment | added | user3528438 | @PeterKämpf Well, what about missiles? (Aircraft, aren't they?) | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 1:56 | history | edited | Vikki |
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | user3528438 | one of the reason why rocket needs it this way is there is a good portion of the flight at low speed and without air, so you need thrust vectoring. Same thing kind of goes with missiles whose flight has either of those characteristics (high altitude or partially very low speed). Planes never fly that high where vectoring is significantly better than surfaces, or need that much maneuverability at low speed. One use case, however, is navy aircrafts where improved low speed maneuverability improves landing safety a lot, or high AoA maneuver where most control surfaces would stall. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 9:42 | comment | added | FloatingRock | Musk does explicitly mention "gimbaling the electric fan" | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 22:06 | comment | added | Koyovis | A helicopter vectors thrust, the blades have 3 axes of rotation. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 6:55 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @Antzi: Not really. In a helicopter the mast stays fixed (apart form rotating, obviously). This is more like the Harrier, only with electric blowers instead of a gas turbine plus a fan. | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 0:25 | comment | added | Antzi | @PeterKämpf isn't he describing an helicopter ? | |
| Jul 19, 2017 at 0:00 | comment | added | Koyovis | Wait - a tail is not needed? | |
| Jul 18, 2017 at 18:51 | answer | added | user23235 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 2:30 | comment | added | Greg Taylor | i haven't figured out if Musk is losing his grip on reality or if he just enjoys winding people up and watching them act like idiots. Probably it's both. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 9:53 | answer | added | GdD | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 8:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/804242175483592704 | ||
| Nov 30, 2016 at 20:31 | vote | accept | FloatingRock | ||
| Nov 30, 2016 at 20:29 | comment | added | FloatingRock | @PeterKämpf thanks so much, that term was exactly what I was looking for! | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 18:13 | answer | added | Romeo_4808N | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 17:54 | comment | added | Sanchises | On a related note: feel free to check out the (many) questions about electric aircraft here, to get a bit of a feel how reasonable a supersonic VTOL electric aircraft is, gimbaled or not. Also related are dirigibles, which can use thrust vectoring, and can provide you with insight what happens when they lose thrust. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 17:52 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | That's called thrust vectoring in aviation speak. And doing away with control surfaces makes the propulsion indispensable. You cannot even run out of fuel anymore. Technically easy, but it will be hard to find pilots who will fly this widowmaker. | |
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| Nov 30, 2016 at 17:36 | history | asked | FloatingRock | CC BY-SA 3.0 |