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Angle-of-Attack Takeoff and Landing

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She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes (yee-haw) Vertical takeoff and landing

TECHNOLOGY OUTLINE

NOVEL PROPULSION

1. **Introduction to Turbines**
- a turbine & a fluid machine
- The conversion of stored energy in fluid to mechanical energy
- Overview of power production through fluid work and enthalpy drop

2. **Fluids and Work Calculation**

- **Compressible Fluids** - Work defined as the sum of internal energy and pressure
- **Incompressible Fluids** - Work computed using pressure only, assuming isothermal conditions

3. **Mechanisms of Thrust and Lift**
- Absence of rotating wing (example: Da Vinci’s screw)
- Translation of momentum to produce thrust and generate lift

4. **Mechanical Energy Conversion Devices**
- compressors, fans, and blowers
- air gaining velocity and pressure in a compressor
- Entry of air through the impeller's eye
- air being whirled tangentially and radially

5. **Impeller and Wing Interaction**
- Role of the impeller in delivering high-velocity and high-pressure air
- Signature leading edge and front spar interface. Of the wing
- boundary layers and enhancement of aerodynamic lift force

6. **Boundary Layer Dynamics**
- laminar airflow and Reynolds's number
- Mechanism of entrainment shifting the initial boundary layer
- Formation of a second boundary layer capable of generating lift

7. **Pressure Gradient and Force Generation**
- Relationship between fluid flow, mechanical devices, and pressure gradient
- Impact of airfoil shape and rotating shaft on lift generation
- Boundary layers entrain air and increase mass flow rate

8. **Flow Work and Induced Drag Mitigation**
- Explanation of flow work continuing to the outboard wingtip
- Generation of a vector field opposing vortex development
- Mechanism of mitigating downwash and reducing induced drag

9. **Lift Creation from External Airflow**
- Static thrust of idling propeller is sufficient for lift-off
- Role of angular momentum in lifting the aircraft's nose
- Use of torsion spring-mounted disk system for energy storage

10. **Takeoff Mechanism**
- Function of aft landing gear kicking mechanism
- Comparison to the kicking force of an eagle
- Overview of generating necessary vertical force for takeoff

11. **Effect of External Airflow**
- idling propeller effect on kitesurfing and sailboats
- Explanation of 'reach' in aerodynamic surfaces affecting airflow

12. **Active Boundary Layer Control**
- mechanical devices in active boundary layer control
- Suitability for collaborative platforms

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