rockets or no rockets, if you spin the rotor one way your body will spin the other - no tail rotor and no counterrotating rotors means a very dizzy pilot
EXACTLY - the design doesn't make sense. If the rockets are connected to the blades, then they must be moving towards the leading edge in order to create lift.
There is torque - but, no countertorque. The only way to create countertourqe is a SECOND PAIR OF BLADES above the first spinning at an equal and opposite rate of the bottom pair.
Unless you have a zero-friction interface (not likely) then the passenger will tend to spin in the direction of the rotors. Maybe you could put counter-thrust rockets on your shoes?
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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rockets or no rockets, if you spin the rotor one way your body will spin the other - no tail rotor and no counterrotating rotors means a very dizzy pilot
EXACTLY - the design doesn't make sense. If the rockets are connected to the blades, then they must be moving towards the leading edge in order to create lift.
There is torque - but, no countertorque. The only way to create countertourqe is a SECOND PAIR OF BLADES above the first spinning at an equal and opposite rate of the bottom pair.
Oh... forget my last post. I understand what they did here.
There is no engine here producing torque in the centerline - it is a jet impulse only at the tips. Therefore, it produces no torque.
My question is, how hard would a landing in this thing be on my knees?
Unless you have a zero-friction interface (not likely) then the passenger will tend to spin in the direction of the rotors. Maybe you could put counter-thrust rockets on your shoes?