{"id":114992,"date":"2020-10-24T05:28:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cyclotech-brings-a-totally-unique-propulsion-system-to-the-evtol-world"},"modified":"2020-10-24T05:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:28:45","slug":"cyclotech-brings-a-totally-unique-propulsion-system-to-the-evtol-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/cyclotech-brings-a-totally-unique-propulsion-system-to-the-evtol-world","title":{"rendered":"Cyclotech brings a totally unique propulsion system to the eVTOL world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1M1aux-HVaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Austrian company Cyclotech is planning to begin flight-testing an 80-kg (176-lb) demonstrator of its unique electric VTOL airframe, which uses Voith-Schneider propellers instead of rotors for exceptional agility and control in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The prop design, which looks a bit like it belongs on the back of an 1850s paddle steamer, was patented nearly 100 years ago but hasn\u2019t made it into a production aircraft yet. Each prop is a spinning cylinder whose walls are formed by a number of wing blades.<\/p>\n<p>The secret to the agility of this \u201cCyclogyro\u201d arrangement is analogous to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/video-how-to-fly-a-helicopter\/16214\/\">the way helicopter blades work<\/a>, continuously altering the angle of the blades as they spin to adjust and direct lift using a \u201cswashplate.\u201d In the Cyclogyro arrangement, a mechanical linkage \u2013 conrods connected to a central hub \u2013 is able to tilt and angle the wing blades as they spin around the cylinder, tilting them gradually into the wind as they reach a certain point in their rotation, and then gradually back to flat as they pass the peak point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian company Cyclotech is planning to begin flight-testing an 80-kg (176-lb) demonstrator of its unique electric VTOL airframe, which uses Voith-Schneider propellers instead of rotors for exceptional agility and control in the air. The prop design, which looks a bit like it belongs on the back of an 1850s paddle steamer, was patented nearly 100 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}