From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 13:46:15 MST
Michael S. Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> Wrote:
> You know, that's what they said about Sikorsky's original helicopters.
No, when he built his first machine they weren't saying Sikorsky was wasting
government money because he wasn't using any.
>Given Moore' Law applied to manufacturing engineering will it be 30-33
>years before tilt rotors are everyday vehicles?
OK, the performance of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, the amount
of data that can be recorded on a hard disk doubles every 12 months, and the
amount of information that can be sent down a fiber of glass doubles every 9 months,
but unfortunately not everything is moving so fast. The doubling time for helicopters
seems to be about 40 years or so. I don't want to be too negative, perhaps someday
a practical tilt rotor aircraft will be built, but the Osprey isn't it.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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