4x4 turns into a Helicopter!!!

[Disc]

All,

rather neat

[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1294575/Helicopter-changes-4x4.html]Helicopter that changes into a 4x4 | Mail Online[/url]

[Kozmyk]

It'd be interesting to see a scale model of this made before the full size came out.
Getting the CG right could be fun looking at that pic.

As for the real thing, I hope those wheels are driven.
Could you imagine the dust tail behind that thing if it were propelled on the ground by those fans?

[Planehazza]

Very cool. If an Aerial Atom got drunk and knocked up a KA 50, THAT would be the result.

[Rotorhead]

Thats just silly, it looks like something from a cartoon.

It wouldn't need those ducted fans on the back, coaxials like the KA-50/52 dont need them.

Instead of wasting money on something like that, why not just buy more helicopters that already exist, more UH-60's and more CH-46's and 47's, it would be more cost effective in almost every way, since there would be no R&D for those, they already exist, and can do more jobs than that thing, both in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere after.

[Kozmyk]

Looks like this AVX company haven't actually made anything yet.
They're good at computer graphics though. ;)
I wonder how much they're making for producing pretty pictures? :)
Could be they're just fleecing investors using the carrot of big Govt contracts.
Time will tell I guess.

[URL="http://www.avxaircraft.com/company.html"]AVX Aircraft Company[/URL]

[Rotorhead]

Thanks for the link, that just really proves the point that there is no point to their designs, right there on their page they show an OH-58 converted to coaxial and ducted fans, why?

So it may go a little bit faster, but the maintainance/flight hour would go through the roof with all that extra stuff, coaxials tend to be more maintainance intensive, and thats without ducted fans on them.

I think you're right, they seem to be doing nothing worth actually doing and just making pictures that you could get from the average school kid, except they'd have more guns and rockets instead of ducted fans :D