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Common to the above projects is a flight profile promising a very-brief stabilised VTO-phase, followed by rapid electronically-stabilised transition to normal flight when fixed wings will take on all the load, later followed by a programmable gradual or vertical descent to a pre-set waypoint. Also, each will have a BRS for a soft landing in an emergency.
Credibly-promised are environmentally-friendly QSTOL-capable flying machines able fly at over 300 knots free of vibration, gyroscopic, and precession issues: so without many of the design contraints associated with rotorcraft and with scope for higher MTOWs too.
The secret of the VTO phase - no forward movement - is that it may be achieved by flowing air laterally over a plurality of specially-adapted short fixed wings (and other parts) to maximise lift. The 'other parts' do not add a lot of extra weight or contribute significant extra drag. Further they operate only during optional VTOL. Not otherwise.
(Answers to some general FAQs will be on this site later.)
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