New kind of heavy VTOL aircraft
New kind of heavy aircraft isn’t needed in any runway for take-off and landing Author: Judbarovski David, system engineering, retired engineer judbarovski@gmail.com , Linkedin.com: David Judbarovski [3735]-15.05.2017 and [3724]-30.04.2017 My transport invented is breakthrough better (i.e. much cheaper and simpler, more than twice quicker, with much better aerodynamics and more flexible and better scalable characteristics and so on) vs. the best analog in the world, being took by me as a prototype here, t he Boeing Pelican ULTRA (Ultra Large TRansport Aircraft) was a proposed ground effect fixed-wing aircraft under study by Boeing Phantom Works . Intended as a large-capacity transport craft for military or civilian use, it would have a wingspan of 500 feet (150 m), a cargo capacity of 1,400 tons (1,300 metric tonnes , for example with 17 tanks M1 Abrams), and a range of about 10,000 nautical miles (18,000 km). Powered by four turboprop engines...