Talk-Polywell.org

Probably work as well as a tankette.

Or flying jeep...

http://www.urbanaero.com/Frame-tech.htm

With all of the controversy with the current Polywell contract producing 100milliWatts or 100MegaWatts, I really have to wonder at the specified "...minimum combat range of 250 nanometres..." :roll:

BenTC wrote:With all of the controversy with the current Polywell contract producing 100milliWatts or 100MegaWatts, I really have to wonder at the specified "...minimum combat range of 250 nanometres..."

Hey, ya can't actually expect the lead scientifical type R&D agency in the US military to actually go SI can you? That "nm" must be military talk, and since they are talking flying over seas, that must be Navy/Marine Corps talk, so it must obviously be nautical miles, no? Obviously, right? Boy I hope it's obvious, otherwise I'd hate to see the law suits.

DeltaV wrote:https://www.fbo.gov/download/d10/d10015 ... ndix_A.pdf

Basically they want a VTOL version of the OV-10 Bronco.

There was a design for a small tilt rotor a decade or two ago, I think called the BAT.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/bell_bat.php

Scale this up a little and put a small cargo bay behind the cockpit and there you go.

Bell XV-15 developed in the 70's. Ironically, I just saw it last Monday in DC. Still looks good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XV-15

Moller's site has a Military Applications page now, as well. I'm guessing this DARPA project is the reason.

I've noticed less updating on the site over the couple years. Hopefully that's due to his having gained the funding he needed to push the project ahead.

krenshala wrote:Moller's site has a Military Applications page now, as well. I'm guessing this DARPA project is the reason.

I've noticed less updating on the site over the couple years. Hopefully that's due to his having gained the funding he needed to push the project ahead.

Moller is bankrupt. They went out of business. If anything is still going on, then someone else has stepped in and bought the assets on the cheap, which is entirely possible that its a CIA front. They have a habit of this sort of thing (Iridium is now owned by a company created by a VC firm that is a CIA front, they bought the whole Iridium satellite constellation for a song at 50 million, after the original company burned through over a billion to put them up)

When did he go bankrupt? Not doubting you, its just that I hadn't heard anything about it (though I wasn't really keeping that close an eye on things).

The April newsletter posted on the moller site was a pretty good read.
You could alsmost see a holgram of him begging for investors while reading it.
Hard telling from the website his actual status, but he seems to be putting on a good show, as well as banking on the Rotopower motor subsidiary.

Personally, I loved the rotary motor I had in the RX-7 I owned back in the 80's. Great little car and motor.