The Future of the Rotor Blade - Flying Cars Indeed Be Based on High Tech Helicopter Design!
When people think of flying cars, they don't think about helicopters, after all wouldn't that be totally dangerous to have rotor blades spinning around above your head, while you are hovering around, or going to the local Starbucks or your grocery store. Indeed flying cars are assumed to have wings like aircraft, and perhaps some kind of a fan lift system where the blades are encased around the vehicle so they don't hurt anybody. Some Sci Fi drawings, concepts, and movies depict some sort of anti-gravity device and the cars fly magically, like a magic carpet for instance.
It is hard to say what future flying cars will actually look like, but they are for sure coming. It may not come soon, because the government is always going out of their way to protect us from ourselves, and because older technologies want to stifle newer technologies, but you can bet that one day we won't be driving on roads, we will be flying over them. Now then, let me tell you why I believe rotor blades, or fan blades will be components in the future flying cars that we will be cruising around in.
You see, we are already witnessing the transformation of rotor blades technology, and we are about to take a giant leap-frogging over any of this current flying technology. Let me explain; Lockheed Martin is working on morphable rotor blades, not only will they be able to change their pitch, as current rotor blades do, but they will also be able to change their shape while they are operating, and spinning around at high speed. All this thanks to new shape shifting materials, which can take several different shapes through material memory strategies.
Also, I see great strides have been made in recent UAV helicopter designs at The Boeing Company, and with Sikorsky's new X-2 Helicopter research and development prototype, for pure research technology only. Consider if you will that new materials will be lighter and stronger, some of them 250 times stronger than steel and 50 times lighter. Therefore, it won't take much to get them to lift off the ground, and with rotor and fan blades able to change shape, it's a foregone conclusion in my view as a futurist.
Now there are many who take a different view or believe that some other converging technology will be the one to get us there, but, in the end, it may be a combination, still, one of those major components will be morphing, or shape shifting fan or rotor blades. And whereas, they may not look like today's versions of such things, this is what I expect to be the future. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net. Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.
When people think of flying cars, they don't think about helicopters, after all wouldn't that be totally dangerous to have rotor blades spinning around above your head, while you are hovering around, or going to the local Starbucks or your grocery store. Indeed flying cars are assumed to have wings like aircraft, and perhaps some kind of a fan lift system where the blades are encased around the vehicle so they don't hurt anybody. Some Sci Fi drawings, concepts, and movies depict some sort of anti-gravity device and the cars fly magically, like a magic carpet for instance.
It is hard to say what future flying cars will actually look like, but they are for sure coming. It may not come soon, because the government is always going out of their way to protect us from ourselves, and because older technologies want to stifle newer technologies, but you can bet that one day we won't be driving on roads, we will be flying over them. Now then, let me tell you why I believe rotor blades, or fan blades will be components in the future flying cars that we will be cruising around in.
You see, we are already witnessing the transformation of rotor blades technology, and we are about to take a giant leap-frogging over any of this current flying technology. Let me explain; Lockheed Martin is working on morphable rotor blades, not only will they be able to change their pitch, as current rotor blades do, but they will also be able to change their shape while they are operating, and spinning around at high speed. All this thanks to new shape shifting materials, which can take several different shapes through material memory strategies.
Also, I see great strides have been made in recent UAV helicopter designs at The Boeing Company, and with Sikorsky's new X-2 Helicopter research and development prototype, for pure research technology only. Consider if you will that new materials will be lighter and stronger, some of them 250 times stronger than steel and 50 times lighter. Therefore, it won't take much to get them to lift off the ground, and with rotor and fan blades able to change shape, it's a foregone conclusion in my view as a futurist.
Now there are many who take a different view or believe that some other converging technology will be the one to get us there, but, in the end, it may be a combination, still, one of those major components will be morphing, or shape shifting fan or rotor blades. And whereas, they may not look like today's versions of such things, this is what I expect to be the future. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net. Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.
When people think of flying cars, they don't think about helicopters, after all wouldn't that be totally dangerous to have rotor blades spinning around above your head, while you are hovering around, or going to the local Starbucks or your grocery store. Indeed flying cars are assumed to have wings like aircraft, and perhaps some kind of a fan lift system where the blades are encased around the vehicle so they don't hurt anybody. Some Sci Fi drawings, concepts, and movies depict some sort of anti-gravity device and the cars fly magically, like a magic carpet for instance.
It is hard to say what future flying cars will actually look like, but they are for sure coming. It may not come soon, because the government is always going out of their way to protect us from ourselves, and because older technologies want to stifle newer technologies, but you can bet that one day we won't be driving on roads, we will be flying over them. Now then, let me tell you why I believe rotor blades, or fan blades will be components in the future flying cars that we will be cruising around in.
You see, we are already witnessing the transformation of rotor blades technology, and we are about to take a giant leap-frogging over any of this current flying technology. Let me explain; Lockheed Martin is working on morphable rotor blades, not only will they be able to change their pitch, as current rotor blades do, but they will also be able to change their shape while they are operating, and spinning around at high speed. All this thanks to new shape shifting materials, which can take several different shapes through material memory strategies.
Also, I see great strides have been made in recent UAV helicopter designs at The Boeing Company, and with Sikorsky's new X-2 Helicopter research and development prototype, for pure research technology only. Consider if you will that new materials will be lighter and stronger, some of them 250 times stronger than steel and 50 times lighter. Therefore, it won't take much to get them to lift off the ground, and with rotor and fan blades able to change shape, it's a foregone conclusion in my view as a futurist.
Now there are many who take a different view or believe that some other converging technology will be the one to get us there, but, in the end, it may be a combination, still, one of those major components will be morphing, or shape shifting fan or rotor blades. And whereas, they may not look like today's versions of such things, this is what I expect to be the future. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net. Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.
