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Can someone tell me why pic related isn't yet a thing? Why aren't such tandem variable rotor attack helos being designed?
>yet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-22
>>30151259
>Engine failure on single rotor dual-engine attack helicopter
>maybe it got shot
>maybe it ate a bird
>maybe the engine just crapped out, IDK
>Fuck, better increase output on engine #2 and find somewhere to land soon
>Keep shooting as long as the second engine holds up, return to base when you can.
>Engine failure on transverse dual engine dual rotor attack helicopter
>helicopter begins to spin out of control
>fuckfuckfuckfuck
>no time to keep shooting, you're making an emergency landing right where you are
>Giant blue hippie space kittens proceed to rape your face and eat you
>>30151259
A propeller half as wide will produce only a fourth as much thrust.
>>30151588
>>30151810
This
Also Avatar was gay as fuck. I require a sequel where humanity just fucking nukes the planet from orbit and mines their Unobtanium
>>30151850
good news, Jimmy boy is making 4 more of these motherfuckers, so blue cat people genocide soon.
>>30151875
>4 more movies
>in no less than 3 a civilization capable of interstellar travel will be bested by cat people with spears
You'd think a species that needs this mineral to save its biosphere would be more willing to commit war crimes.
>>30151895
maybe they'll do some type of soft power shit like make all the blue cat people hooked on human pop music and culture.
>>30151913
How about hooked on opiates instead?
It's basic physics
A single big prop is the optimal way to go, or maybe 2 with a pusher prop at the back for higher speeds
>>30151956
or both.
make em into a slave race.
pax humanity baby
>>30151956
>my ebony hued brethren
I was just about to post this.
>>30151956
Hey. They're a warrior society. What does every warrior want? Better weapons. By which I mean carbide steel knives, vibrospears, and lightweight composite armor. Oh, and some Navi-sized arrows tipped with shaped charges in case the *other* sky people come back.
Now, if you'll just put an X on the form so I can turn loose these little mechanical snakes with the burrowing drive so they can extract the unobtanium in a non-instrusive fashion and you can collect regular shipments of weapons... there. Good. Thank you. Been a pleasure.
Because we should be focusing on this instead.
Is an osprey guaranteed fucked if one side gets fucked?
>>30152074
Yeah, but it does a great job of ridding us of welfare queens so I can't complain.
Like this, but with a pusher.
>>30152812
Don't forget this bad boy, and the Sikorsky S-97.
>>30152819
A very beautiful helicopter.
Good post anon.
>>30152819
Butifell...
And that's coming from a ruskie.
>>30152812
>>30151588
I guess that's why Chinooks never got adopted.
>>30152021
Dat mid 00's CGI
>>30151259
Because:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_loading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_loading#Power_required
>>30152819
that's so star wars
>>30152819
This is the only Cheyenne I want.
>>30151259
Helicopters are cheaper.
