Bring Back Tiltwing Concept
Credit: BOEING CONCEPT
The tiltrotor design depicted for Boeing’s JCALS concept would be mechanically simpler and better performing if it were redesigned as a tiltwing configuration (AW&ST May 12, p. 29). Use of the tiltrotor configuration for advanced vertical-takeoff-or-landing aircraft is the result of a prejudice from...
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