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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Helicopters have an issue above 200 mph where the retreating blade wont generate any lift and it generally turns into a corkscrew flight. The reason some experimental choppers have two blades counter rotating, but the drag bucket is phenomenal.
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This hybrid has a top speed of 170, so I still don’t see how it’s better than an electric helicopter.
This design is neat, but it could have been done with oil burning engines (sorta) instead of electric, so why hadn’t it been developed already? I’m not seeing the added value over helicopter.