波音研发的快速倾转旋翼涵道风扇垂直起降飞机试飞

据美国防卫杂志Defence Review 报道，该飞机名位”快速鬼怪“，是波音的鬼怪研究室的人员研究开发的X系列试验飞机。
该机使用快速旋倾的翼尖涵道风扇发动机+两个更大的机体内置的涵道风扇发动机实现垂直起落和水平飞行。 此次验证的飞机大小为17%的验证机，是为美国军方的DARPA研制。
该验证机成功进行了腾空飞行。

设计三天，购买零部件10天， 制造和试飞共14天；使用了快速成型制造技术。

原文如下，没有链接。见谅。

Boeing Phantom Works Phantom Swift Tilt-Rotor/Tilt-Wing Ducted-Fan VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) X-Plane: Rapid Prototyping at It’s Futuristic Best
By David Crane
david (at) defensereview (dot) com
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Image(s) Credit: Boeing Phantom Works
April 10, 2014
A team of Boeing Phantom Works engineers, including chief engineer Perry Ziegenbein, aerodynamics engineer Mike Duffy, design engineers Scott Bauer and Matt Staufer, and composites expert Michael Mikuszewski, recently designed and a 17% model of an interesting tilt-rotor/tilt-wing ducted-fan VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) X-Plane called “Phantom Swift” from scratch for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and got it airborne in less than a month using rapid prototyping. Design time: 3 days. Parts Acquisition: 10 days. Build and fly it: 14 days. That’s some serious Boeing badness, right there. “A picture is worth a thousand words, a flying model is worth a million words. No matter what words you put in a proposal, having hardware that you can demonstrate that they can tangibly see what’s being proposed goes a long way toward winning that proposal,” said Perry Ziegenbein, Phantom Swift’s chief engineer.
DefenseReview (DR) is a big fan of futuristic and capable VTOL and STOVL aircraft in general, provided they’re rugged, reliable and effective. That includes the F-35B STOVL (Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing) Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), on paper/in theory. The F-35B, of course, still has to overcome some design, manufacturing and/or QC (Quality Control) issues like the reported bulkhead and rib cracking issue. Trouble-free VTOL and STOVL aircraft are extremely tactically and strategically advantageous, since they don’t require long, paved runways (and the necessary air bases that provide them) or traditional large aircraft carriers for takeoff. VTOL and STOVL aircraft can therefore be much more easily dispersed, camouflaged and hidden in the field, and deployed pretty much from anywhere. MAJOR tactical and strategic advantage.
Getting back to the Boeing Phantom Works Phantom Swift prototype, though, DR likes it’s deisgn aesthetic and seeming high-degree of lift power provided by the two large lift-fans in the body and two smaller lift fans on the ends of the wings (one per wing). The aircraft has nice flowing lines, and looks futuristic. Defense Review is interested to see the final full-scale product.
Regardless, the Boeing Phantom Swift VTOL aircraft prototype is a great example of what rapid prototyping can help design engineers accomplish in an incredibly short amount of time. “Rapid prototyping is the wave of the future, I guess you could say,” says Mikuszewski.
据美国防卫杂志Defence Review 报道，该飞机名位”快速鬼怪“，是波音的鬼怪研究室的人员研究开发的X系列试验飞机。
该机使用快速旋倾的翼尖涵道风扇发动机+两个更大的机体内置的涵道风扇发动机实现垂直起落和水平飞行。 此次验证的飞机大小为17%的验证机，是为美国军方的DARPA研制。
该验证机成功进行了腾空飞行。

设计三天，购买零部件10天， 制造和试飞共14天；使用了快速成型制造技术。

原文如下，没有链接。见谅。

Boeing Phantom Works Phantom Swift Tilt-Rotor/Tilt-Wing Ducted-Fan VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) X-Plane: Rapid Prototyping at It’s Futuristic Best
By David Crane
david (at) defensereview (dot) com
The following article is property of DefenseReview.com (DR) and is copyrighted material. If you are reading this article on another website other than DefenseReview.com, please email us the website address/URL (where the unauthorized DR article reprint is located) at defrev (at) gmail (dot) com. Thank you.
Image(s) Credit: Boeing Phantom Works
April 10, 2014
A team of Boeing Phantom Works engineers, including chief engineer Perry Ziegenbein, aerodynamics engineer Mike Duffy, design engineers Scott Bauer and Matt Staufer, and composites expert Michael Mikuszewski, recently designed and a 17% model of an interesting tilt-rotor/tilt-wing ducted-fan VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) X-Plane called “Phantom Swift” from scratch for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and got it airborne in less than a month using rapid prototyping. Design time: 3 days. Parts Acquisition: 10 days. Build and fly it: 14 days. That’s some serious Boeing badness, right there. “A picture is worth a thousand words, a flying model is worth a million words. No matter what words you put in a proposal, having hardware that you can demonstrate that they can tangibly see what’s being proposed goes a long way toward winning that proposal,” said Perry Ziegenbein, Phantom Swift’s chief engineer.
DefenseReview (DR) is a big fan of futuristic and capable VTOL and STOVL aircraft in general, provided they’re rugged, reliable and effective. That includes the F-35B STOVL (Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing) Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), on paper/in theory. The F-35B, of course, still has to overcome some design, manufacturing and/or QC (Quality Control) issues like the reported bulkhead and rib cracking issue. Trouble-free VTOL and STOVL aircraft are extremely tactically and strategically advantageous, since they don’t require long, paved runways (and the necessary air bases that provide them) or traditional large aircraft carriers for takeoff. VTOL and STOVL aircraft can therefore be much more easily dispersed, camouflaged and hidden in the field, and deployed pretty much from anywhere. MAJOR tactical and strategic advantage.
Getting back to the Boeing Phantom Works Phantom Swift prototype, though, DR likes it’s deisgn aesthetic and seeming high-degree of lift power provided by the two large lift-fans in the body and two smaller lift fans on the ends of the wings (one per wing). The aircraft has nice flowing lines, and looks futuristic. Defense Review is interested to see the final full-scale product.
Regardless, the Boeing Phantom Swift VTOL aircraft prototype is a great example of what rapid prototyping can help design engineers accomplish in an incredibly short amount of time. “Rapid prototyping is the wave of the future, I guess you could say,” says Mikuszewski.