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We are careening toward Dec. 21, 2012, the date of the Mayan apocalypse, when the world is supposed to come to an end through a series of cataclysmic upheavals, according to assorted astrologers and mystics ‑ though not the Mayans themselves, who said it was merely the end of their calendar. We are also hurtling toward the Jan. 1 "fiscal cliff," when the American economy could re-enter a devastating recession ‑ a man-made mini-apocalypse.
Policy debates in the Internet Age
Technology is changing how power struggles are waged between the White House and Congress. For the last few years, negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders have too often led to stalemate. The battle over how to avert the "fiscal cliff" is the latest example.
Fighting the filibuster
President Barack Obama recently said Congress should "seize the moment" and summon a majority to push immigration reform. There is only one problem – Congress already did that.
Fighting off the counterrevolution
The conventional wisdom has arrived: 2012 was a status quo election. President Barack Obama was reelected. Democrats continue to have a majority in the Senate. Republicans still control the House. Only two states changed their presidential votes from 2008 to 2012 (North Carolina and Indiana). Six billion dollars were spent and almost nothing changed!
First step in ending DC dysfunction
After the sound and the fury, the public disdain for government — particularly for Congress — the high stakes and looming fiscal disaster and $6 billion, we end up where we began — with Barack Obama in the White House, Democrats with a modest majority in the Senate, and Republicans retaining control of the House.
The fast track to a balanced budget
The state of the union, fiscally speaking, is perilous. Despite record deficits and dire warnings from Europe as to the consequences of sustained fiscal imbalance, our leaders have been unable to find common ground. The Simpson-Bowles Commission in 2010, the Gang of Six last summer and the misnamed Super Committee of this past fall were all bipartisan efforts to cut through the Gordian knot of budgetary gridlock. And all of them failed. Miserably.
Keystone XL's organizing principle
In October 2011, National Journal surveyed energy experts about whether Obama was likely to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar-sands oil through the U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico. Ninety-one percent of the "energy and environment insiders" believed he would.
from David Cay Johnston:
Time to junk income taxes?
This is America's 100th year for individual income tax, a system as out of touch with our era as digital music is with the hand-cranked Victrola music players of 1912. It is also the 26th year of the Reagan-era reform for both personal and corporate tax, a grand design now buried under special-interest favors.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Speaking to WEEI.com following his annual spring training meeting with the media, Jonathan Papelbon talked about how important the contract Rafael Soriano signed with the Yankees was, and how it might effect his mindset while potentially heading into free agency after 2011.
"That's the position I want to be in," Papelbon said regarding Soriano's positioning heading into the free agent market following the 2010 season. "When the season is all said and done this year, I want to be the No. 1 guy coming out, no question."
Soriano, perceived as the top reliever available on the open market in the offseason after notching an American League-best 45 saves with Tampa Bay, inked a three-year, $35 million deal with the Yankees to set-up Mariano Rivera. Papelbon did say that he was open to the idea of returning to the Red Sox next season, while saying he understood speculation this may his final year in Boston.
The Soriano deal, along with Rivera's two-year, $30 million contract, slowed down a downward trend for closers in terms of salaries. Papelbon, who avoided arbitration by inking a one-year, $12 million in Jan., could be fighting for the free agent dollars with closers Heath Bell, Jonathan Broxton, Joe Nathan (club option for $12.5 million), Brad Lidge (club option for $12.5 million), and even Soriano, who has an opt-out clause after each of his first two seasons with New York.
"I don't know all the logistics of his deal, but it definitely has opened doors for a lot other people in this game," said Papelbon of Soriano. "I think it has opened a lot of things in the game, and that's a good thing for people to do.
"I'm excited. [Soriano] was one of the best in the game last year and people should realize that. If you're one of the best, you should be [paid] like one of the best."
Papelbon said that his goal heading into '11 is to put all doubts about his status as one of the game's closers to rest.
"I think that's my mindset this year," he said. "I understand there are a lot of doubters out there, and that's just natural, but I use that for fuel. That's just me. That's who I am."
When talking earlier to the collection of media at the team's minor-league training facility, Papelbon did stress that he wasn't planning on letting thoughts of free agency dictate his approach for the upcoming season.
"I think for the most part, guys like us, we will be fine," he said. "Is it human nature to think about those things? Of course it's human nature. But to think about them and then sit there and dwell on them are two totally different things. Are we going to think about it? Of course. We're humans. But to sit there and dwell on it and wonder is this going to happen, is that going to happen, I don't think that will be the case."
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Greg and Chris talk more offseason happenings with the Pats and their plans. They talk about some of the free agents toward the bottom of the list with Stevan Ridley and Dan Connolly. Price thinks that Connolly could end up back with the Pats and Ridley elsewhere (Cowboys?), but Greg thinks they both could be back. They also chat about the departure of VInce Wilfork and what he meant to the organization, the re-signing of McCourty and more.
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We talk to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News about his column today which basically accuses the Patriots of sour grapes for asking the league to enforce their own rules against tampering.
Brow Buff's Sam Packard and Ben Kichen break down Marcus Smart's unfortunate ball tap, debate leadership in the Celtics locker room, and rehash the great Kevin Love to Boston rumors.
Flannery joins Mut to break down the Isaiah Thomas trade to Boston and what it means for the Celtics this season and in the future. Paul also chats with Mut about the other deals that happened at the NBA's trading deadline
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Mut, Tomase, and Bradford kick things off talking about Shane Victorino taking offense to people reading into some comments he made about trading for Cole Hamels. They also discuss Blake Swihart and how soon he could be up if Christian Vazquez starts the season on the DL.
Joe Kelly joined the Hot Stove show where he talked about being ready for his next spring training start after a biceps ailment forced him out of his last outing, he talks about his NCAA brackets and how teammate Wade Miley has a perfect bracket still.
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DJ, Joe and Pete talk more playoff scenarios in hour 2 and if the Bruins can get in, they'll be a very dangerous team... to the point where DJ thinks teams would much rather face the Senators and are doing their best to oust the Bruins from the equation. It's become apparent now more than ever that Chiarelli probably needed to pull the trigger on a deal for a defenseman at the trade deadline. Also. Bruce Garrioch from the Ottawa Sun joins the boys to discuss the Hamburglar and the Senators and Bruins being neck-and-neck for a playoff spot.
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The latest edition of the highly rated segment.
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D&C's favorite author joined the show to discuss his new book.
We hear more audio from Christian's day between the pipes. He did his best to try and intimidate the small children shooting on him.
After Christian gave away his children's dog, we find out that Lola eventually found a better home.
During the recess of the Aaron Hernandez murder trial, Ted Daniel describes the first half of Shayana Jenkins testimony.
Dale, Michael and Jerry Thornton discuss David Ortiz's self-penned piece which took on such topics as steroids, the media, his contract and more. And we get into a back and forth about the fan perception of him in Boston, and why he can be so polarizing at times, even with the on-field track record he has.
Dale, Michael and Jerry Thornton discuss some of the testimony from Aaron Hernandez' fiancee, and try and judge how her words might change the outcome of this case.
Dale and Michael talk Bruins after they managed to snatch defeat from the claws of victory and blow a late game lead to the Anaheim Ducks. With the playoffs still in question, the Bruins need more efforts like that, and more luck.
Chris Price joins Mut to talk about how Revis will heat up the Jets-Pats rivalry next season
Mut opens his show talking about the New York Jets filing tampering charges on the Patriots
Mikey, Mut, and Lucy are talking about all things New England sports, the Red Sox spring training, more Darrelle Revis and Jets talk, and some Bruins mixed in.
Ben and Adam finish the odyssey that is the history of Wrestlemania. Wrestlemanias 21-30 are discussed and analyzed.
Mike Mulloy joins Chris in the studio to talk Raw and Wrestlemania.
Brow Buff's Sam Packard and Ben Kichen break down Marcus Smart's unfortunate ball tap, debate leadership in the Celtics locker room, and rehash the great Kevin Love to Boston rumors.
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Kathy McKeithen has been trying to save the Atherton Town government. In doing so, she has nearly destroyed it. McKeithen...Original post made by innocent bystander on Oct. 15, 2010
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MENLO PARKPark Theater: latest salvo
Although you won't find it mentioned in the Almanac (or anywhere else, as far as I can tell) the Parks and Rec commission...Original post made by Inquiring minds on Oct. 30, 2007
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MENLO PARKPark Theater or Political Theater
Menlo Park doesn't need the Park Theater, because poor, poor stifled Ms. Maurano and others are providing all the political...Original post made by Inside Analyst on Nov. 2, 2007
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For months, the media frenzy has persisted as 2016 presidential candidate speculation runs rampant. While the Democrats have relative clarity regarding their ticket, their Republican counterparts face a much more convoluted path.
If Republicans can be proud of the fact that Ted Cruz would "most likely" be able to serve as president, Democrats should trumpet the plethora of talent within their ranks.
Aside from the obvious societal and legal implications, the proposal by Senators Rand Paul, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Cory Booker to change marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule II drug will also have financial ramifications.
As the lines of politics and entertainment become even more blurred, one can only wonder what the 2016 crop of presidential hopefuls will resort to as they campaign for the nation's highest office.
Modern conservatism is inherently big-government oriented. If you want to police the world, as well as every uterus, marriage and bedroom in the country, you have to spend money. Big government is inherent in the conservative agenda.
Perhaps it's natural for Netanyahu and the Cotton 47 to think: Netanyahu has gotten away with fake diplomacy with the Palestinians, why can't the U.S. do fake diplomacy with Iran?
A year ago, Rand Paul was the most exciting Republican politician in the country. He was building a presidential campaign around his brand of libertarian Republican politics that, while not exactly making him a frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination in 2016, made him a credible candidate.
Have Fed officials, including Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, continued to destroy the source FOMC transcripts following the Greenspan Fed officials who voted to destroy them in 1995?
Not only have Republicans blocked comprehensive immigration reform when it had a real chance of passing, they're now trying yet again to bring up unconstitutional bills to drive their point home.
Seen as a whole, the current federal attitude towards marijuana can truly be described as "doublethink." There are so many contradictions in the government's attitude that they are indeed hard to accurately count.
Jeb Bush gets early style points for taking on his critics about his support for comprehensive immigration reform, perhaps realizing he has already lost the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Mark Levin talk radio primaries anyway.
Medical marijuana patients just got a step closer to what we need, with the introduction yesterday of a historic medical marijuana bill in the U.S. Senate. With medical science and public opinion on our side, compassion can win out over the legacy of fear-mongering from the past century.
There is popular support for the idea that the Fed should be audited. More than three-quarters of registered voters would give the general idea of auditing the Fed a green light. It's no surprise, then, that there has been bipartisan support for similar proposals in the past.


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Ok, I'm Impressed With Y'all's Answers on "Spurtle", so what's...
can't believe the arcane knowledge a person can find on this forum!
What's the name of a smallish decorative chair (no picture, sorry) from the 1960's, Spanish-looking, with a very narrow back, carved wood, velvet upholstery, usually some shade of avocado?
I looks like the kind of thing that was popular in the late 60's, when everything was Spanish or Mediterranean (sp?), carved, harvest gold or avocado green, crushed velvet, etc.
I saw one at a shop & the owner said she thought she had googled "highback European vintage chair", but I got nowhere with that.
I inherited one, still has the original crushed velvet upholstery, & the only names anyone has come up with so far are "punishment chair" & "dunce chair".
which just ain't right.
crossing my fingers that someone here has an extensve knowledge of interior decorating trivia!
I can't help you, but some of the posters on the Home Decorating forum are super talented! Try posting this question on that board.
Here is a link that might be useful: Home Decorating
Here's a site with a slew of 60's chair images - see if you can find it on here:
Here is a link that might be useful: Retro chairs
I remember chairs like those being called "salon" or "dressing" chairs. Fashioned after a small, ornate chair that a woman would sit on in her dressing or salon area while visiting with intimate guests. Picture a lady sitting and doing needlepoint on one of those low chairs, near a fireplace.
I tried to google it, but salon chair brought up barber chairs, and dressing or vanity chairs are more like stools?
I know what you are talking about, Sylvia, but I didn't know they had any particular name. I remember in the '60's when Spanish decor was very popular around here, and remember those chairs from back then. My friend who has a shop had a couple of them that we got when we cleaned out an old house and I couldn't believe she sold them....but she did. Someone wanted them.
I googled narrow backed Spanish chair and found the one in the link... is this what you have?
Here is a link that might be useful: narrow backed spanish chair
That's it!
the one with the upholstered back, not the beautiful carved back.
wonder what it's name is...
I saw a pair of them at an antique/used furniture store, marked $45 each;
the shop owner said she'd seen them online for $90 apiece, so she priced them at "half-price".


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This is very similar to Beaumarchais, but either something else or scaled and tweaked in a vector drawing app.
This one is called Columbus in Rookledge's International typefinder (modified serif, 586, page 234)
Any idea where to get it? When I do a search for font and Columbus on Google I get faces from ITC, Linotype, and Monotype that look nothing like it.
Yes, several names: Columbus (QBF), Beaumarchais (Scriptorium), Deneane (Buyfonts).
The digitised versions aren't as heavy as your sample though and as you say there are differences.
OK, I've managed to download Deneane and it will probably work with minor tweaking. Thanks all.


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Flight as Cayman 504 .
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Departing runway 2L after dropping off Gustav Evacs.
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(CNSNews.com) - As tens of thousands of protestors marched on Washington Sunday demanding that Congress pass more gun-control legislation, a top National Rifle Association executive took his organization's message of responsible, legal gun ownership to the airwaves, stressing gun safety education and strict enforcement of existing gun laws.
"If you want to stop accidents among young people, education is the answer. If you want to stop gun crime on the street, prosecution and enforcement is the answer," said NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre on CBS's Face The Nation.
LaPierre also appeared on NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday, where he touted the NRA's Eddie Eagle gun safety program for children as "the Red Cross of firearms safety."
LaPierre's remarks were delivered as thousands of women, and more than a few men, representing two different solutions to their common goal of reducing gun violence, gathered near the US Capitol on Mother's Day.
The larger of the two groups demonstrating in Washington on Sunday was the "Million Mom March," whose call for mandatory trigger locks, three-day background checks for gun purchases at gun shows, and the banning of certain types of guns and ammunition has the backing of President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who showed up at the march in support of stricter gun laws.
Questioned about the chances of new licensing and registration gun laws passing this Congress, Hillary Rodham Clinton told CNSNews.com "With all of the marchers here today, these are voices from across the country calling for sensible gun legislation. If we speak up loud enough, the Congress will hear."
A smaller group of firearms rights activists, the "Second Amendment Sisters - Armed Informed Mothers" held a counter-rally opposing new gun laws and echoing the NRA's position that better gun law enforcement and gun safety education, plus better parenting is the way to stem adolescent gun violence.
The "Sisters" also differ from the "Millions" in that they argue that responsible gun ownership by law-abiding citizens acts as a crime deterrent.
"We all own firearms or know someone who does," said Debra Collins, Colorado State Coordinator for SAS. "I used one to save my life from an attacker," she added.
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Change it so it's like Kunkka's X Marks the Spot from DotA.
His ult doesn't need changed. You need to use it better.
Basically, increasing his ult range means stupid urgot players will get killed more. Adding damage could too easily make it op, unless the damage wasn't worth anything. Adding an automatic escape type mechanism (like a movespeed buff) would take the danger out of ulting, making it to powerful.
His ult is fine. If he needs anything, it is a buff to his attack range in order to land his passive and slows over a larger area.
Watching Urgots ult into my tower or ulting into the middle of my teammates never gets old. Give it more range so they can pull off these same stunts from farther away!
I think it needs a buff in the fact that it can be interrupted by pretty much anything.
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A tilt-rotor aircraft (1) comprising a pair of contra-rotating co-axial tiltable rotors (11) on the longitudinal centre line of the aircraft. The rotors (11) may be tiltable sequentially and independently. They may be moveable between a lift position and a flight position in front of or behind the fuselage (19).
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As is known, there are many designs of aircraft, herein referred to as convertiplanes, seeking to combine the advantages of fixed-wing propeller aircraft and of helicopters, for example by use of tilt-rotors or by tilt-wings. Of these, arguably only the twin tilt-rotor designs are close to full production.
Twin tilt-rotor designs have a long history. In 1934, U.S. Pat. No. 1,951,817 was granted to Blount for his �airplane-helicopter�. In 1958 the Bell XV-3 became the first tilt-rotor to convert to the aeroplane mode; a 15-year test programme proved that it could fly safely and smoothly throughout its flight envelope. The XV-3 was limited in speed by its use of blades designed for helicopter flight, and this was remedied in Bell's next project, the XV-15, by use of high twist blades. The first XV-15 was rolled out in 1976, and by 1986 the two prototypes had achieved an unofficial record for rotorcraft of 301 knots, had accumulated 530 flight hours and made 1,500 conversions. In that year a scaled-up version of the XV-15, a joint proposal by Bell and Boeing called the V-22 Osprey, was approved for full-scale development for the US armed forces, achieving its first flight in 1989. The V-22 eventually entered low-rate initial production in 1999, but subsequently was grounded after two crashes in 2000; revised flight tests began in May 2002 and it is now in limited production.
The most recent twin tilt-rotor is the Bell Agusta BA 609, which made its maiden flight on 7 Mar. 2003 as the world's first civil tilt-rotor and is configured generally as the V-22.
This history from 1934 to the present day shows painfully slow progress for the twin tilt-rotor concept. Over the same timescale a wide variety of helicopter designs have achieved large-scale production and valuable service worldwide. But even that success for helicopters is modest compared to that of fixed wing aircraft which have achieved production quantities, utilisation, safety, reliability, speed, range and altitude performance that are far better and at much lower cost than helicopters of equivalent payload.
The reasons for the relative success (or lack of it) of these three concepts lie in the economic cost of acquisition and operation.
Firstly, comparing a propeller driven fixed wing design with a helicopter design of equal payload, fuel load and installed turbine power:
Secondly, comparing a twin tilt-rotor design with the above two designs:
It is an object of at least the preferred embodiments of the present invention to provide a tilt-rotor aircraft in which the above disadvantages are reduced.
The term �rotor� is to be construed broadly, to include not only an open (helicopter-type) rotor, but also a ducted fan or ducted rotor.
In another aspect, the invention provides a tilt-rotor aircraft comprising a fuselage, wings for sustained forward flight, and at least one rotor tiltable between a position providing lift and a position providing propulsion for forward flight, the rotor or rotors being carried by supporting structure mounted on the fuselage and being disposed on or symmetrically about the longitudinal centre line of the aircraft.
In another aspect, the invention provides a tilt-rotor aircraft comprising a plurality of rotors carried by at least one tiltable nacelle on the longitudinal centre line of the aircraft.
The, or each, nacelle may have a pair of contra-rotating rotors which are coaxial, or on parallel axes, or intermesh.
A said nacelle or supporting structure may be mounted to pivot and optionally also translate about an axis extending transversely of an upper part of the aircraft fuselage.
The nacelle may contain at least one engine. Alternatively the engine(s) may be located elsewhere in the aircraft, and power may be delivered mechanically to the rotors or via a local power turbine, electric motor, hydraulic motor or other transmission.
The rotors preferably are driven by a plurality of engines via a transmission such that all the rotors continue to be driven if an engine fails.
The nacelle may be mounted to pivot and optionally also translate about an axis extending transversely of an upper part of the fuselage.
At least inboard portions of wings of the aircraft maybe moveable so as to present leading edges to the airflow generated from the rotors in lift mode.
In another aspect the invention provides a tilt-rotor aircraft comprising a tiltable rotor assembly on the longitudinal centre line of the aircraft moveable between a lift mode and a forward flight mode, inboard portions of the wings of the aircraft being moveable so as to present leading edges to the airflow generated by the rotors in lift mode.
A said moveable portion may be rotatable and/or translatable transversely or longitudinally about a fixed beam projecting from the fuselage of the aircraft.
The beam may extend to a fixed outboard portion of the wing. The fixed beam may be offset from the axis of tilt of the rotors either forwardly or rearwardly or vertically.
Preferably each wing may have at least two substantially parallel moveable portions.
A said moveable portion may be configured to act as a control surface when the aircraft is in lift mode and/or in transition between lift and forward flight modes, the aircraft also comprising control means for operating the control surface.
The underside of the aircraft fuselage may be shaped to reduce download forces on the fuselage from the airflow generated by the rotor or rotors in lift mode.
Preferably there is a control surface on the fuselage, operative when the aircraft is in a lift mode and/or in transition between lift and forward flight modes.
In a further aspect the invention provides a tilt-rotor aircraft comprising a tiltable rotor assembly moveable between a lift position and a forward flight position in front of or behind the fuselage.
Preferably in this aspect the aircraft is of a twin-boom layout, wherein booms extend rearwardly from the wings of the aircraft to support the aircraft's empennage, the rotor assembly being behind the fuselage and disposed between the booms when the aircraft is in forward flight mode.
In one embodiment, the rotor assembly is below the fuselage when in the lift position. In another embodiment it is above the fuselage.
The preferred embodiments of the invention have all the powerplant, transmission and rotor components within a single rotornacelle, allowing some components such as cross-wing transmissions to be eliminated and others such as support structures to be simplified.
In another aspect this invention provides a tilt rotor aircraft comprising a fuselage, wings for sustained forward flight, and a plurality of rotors, each rotor being independently and sequentially tiltable between a position proving lift and a position proving propulsion for forward flights.
In a preferred embodiment the powerplant may be within the fuselage.
Preferably the rotors are mounted on, or symmetrically about, the centre-line of the aircraft.
The rotors may be mounted at an angle of inclination to the roll axis or to the pitch axis of the aircraft. The angle of inclination may be up to 45 degrees, for example between 12� and 32� degrees, and preferably being substantially twenty two and a half degrees.
The angle of inclination may be variable.
Preferably the aircraft may comprise rotors which are substantially in mesh.
The aircraft may comprise a mechanism for varying the relative phase of the rotors to permit sequential tilting, preferably substantially in mesh.
Preferably the mechanism may comprise a cross-shaft.
The tilt axis of the rotors may be vertically or longitudinally offset from the point of convergence of a longitudinal axis of each rotor.
The rotors may have a common cross-shaft. The gear ratios between the cross-shaft and the rotor shaft for a two bladed rotor design may be of a 2:3 ratio. For a three or more bladed rotor design the cross-shaft preferably includes a differential gearbox with means to input mesh phase correction.
The flight positions are preferably to the rear of the fuselage and the lift positions are preferably substantially vertical, or tilted towards the front of the fuselage by up to ten degrees, preferably up to five degrees. The flight positions may be between ninety and one hundred degrees from the lift positions. Preferably the flight positions are substantially ninety five degrees from the lift positions.
In a further aspect the invention provides a tilt-rotor aircraft comprising a fuselage, wings for sustained forward flight, front and rear rotors mounted on the aircraft fuselage for providing lift at least one of the rotors being tiltable between a lift position and a position providing propulsion for forward flight.
Both rotors may be tiltable between lift and propulsion positions.
One rotor may be deployable to an autogyro configuration for forward flight, or can be folded in flight.
The aircraft may be operable in three flight modes, a first of which is in use below a first air speed, a second of which is in use between the first airspeed and a second airspeed, and a third of which is in use above the second airspeed. The aircraft may comprise a controller which can automatically manage transitions between these flight modes.
Alternatively the aircraft may comprise means for sensing dynamic air pressure arising from air speed, the aircraft being operable in three flight modes determined with reference to dynamic pressure, the first-mode being used below a first dynamic pressure, the second mode between the first dynamic pressure and a second dynamic pressure and the third mode above the second dynamic pressure.
The second flight mode is preferably a compound mode in which at least one of the rotors is in the flight position or at least one of the rotors is in the lift position. Preferably at least one of the rotors is substantially in the flight position and one of the rotors is substantially in the lift position in the second flight mode.
The first air speed or first dynamic pressure may be sufficient for the wings to take substantially half of the aircraft lift, and the second air speed or second dynamic pressure may be sufficient for the wings to take substantially all of the aircraft lift.
The rotors may be moveable into a feathered position so that they may be tilted between lift and flight positions or held in or between those positions more easily.
Any of the aspects of the invention described above may be combined with any other of the aspects of the invention to provide an improved tilt-rotor aircraft.
Other advantages which may be achieved with various embodiments are the following:�
Some preferred, non-limiting embodiments of the present invention will be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:�
With reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, a convertiplane 1 comprises a fuselage 2, a rotornacelle 3 attached above the fuselage 2, and a wing 4.
The rotornacelle 3 supports two rotors 11 that rotate in opposite directions about the common axis A, so setting aside other influences, the force vector produced by the rotors 11 is aligned to axis A. The rotornacelle 3 houses the engines and known devices�not forming part of the present invention and therefore not shown�for transmitting power to and for controlling the cyclic and collective pitch of the rotors 11. In particular the rotors are coupled through a differential gear to equalise the torque supplied to each, any imbalance relative to axis A manifesting itself as a torque reaction on the differential casing which is transmitted to the airframe. This torque imbalance is cancelled by control of the relative collective pitch of the two rotors, and this also is employed to maintain yaw control of the aircraft in hover mode and at low airspeeds. For this reason it is unnecessary to provide the aircraft with a tail rotor or similar torque balancing system.
The rotornacelle 3 is attached to the fuselage 2 by two actuation devices 20, such as inter-connected geared-down electric motors. The two actuation devices 20 are used to rotate rotornacelle 3 about the axis B between a helicopter mode where axis A is substantially vertical, and an airplane mode where axis A is substantially horizontal. Each device 20 comprises a load bearing casing, electric motor, fail safe, devices, monitoring devices and a high torque output reduction gearbox. The devices are configured to provide high integrity rotary actuation capable of supporting the weight of the aircraft in hover mode and to achieve translation to and from forward flight in about ten seconds.
The devices 20 may be arranged to provide translation as well as rotation, for example by interposing beams or pivot arms between the axis B and pivotal connections to the nacelle. This may allow a more compact movement between lift and forward flight positions. Differential control of the actuators in such arrangement can vector the rotor thrust, perhaps permitting cyclic pitch control to be omitted, or to assist in aircraft trimming, and aircraft CG balancing.
Wing 4 has two halfwings 5, each having an outer portion 6 attached to two fixed beam elements 7, 8 that project from the fuselage 2, so that wing 4 is fixed relative to the fuselage 2 and the outer portions 6 are substantially outside the airflow of the rotornacelle 3.
The aircraft is configured to reduce the detrimental download forces that rotor airflow can create on the wing surfaces within its flow field. The inner part of each halfwing 5 comprises two inner wing portions 9, 10 movable so as to rotate about the respective axes E1 and E2 of the fixed beam elements 7, 8. In the airplane mode the two inner wing portions 9, 10 are held flush with the outer portion 6 to form a conventional wing. In the helicopter mode, and in the transition mode between airplane and helicopter, the two inner wing portions 9, 10 are aligned substantially to the local airflow so as to virtually eliminate the detrimental download forces of rotornacelle 3 airflow that otherwise would act on wing 4. The drag coefficient of an airfoil at right angles to the airflow may be as high as 2 but is reduced one hundredfold when substantially aligned to the airflow. The inner wing portions 9, 10 may be used as aircraft control surfaces to supplement or take-over from conventional secondary and primary surfaces which progressively lose their effectiveness due to lack of forward airspeed as the aircraft converts to helicopter mode.
For all flight modes the inner wing portions 9, 10 will be aligned substantially to the local airflow i.e. to the wash resulting from the rotornacelle and air movement relative to the aircraft. In helicopter and transition modes the purpose is to eliminate download (drag) forces on the wings; in the airplane mode the purpose is to provide lift with minimum drag. Using displacement from alignment also provides aircraft control forces and moments. The most important control uses are as airbrakes in transition mode and as high lift surfaces in slow airplane mode flight. Equally their differential positioning (wing to wing) produces a moment: In hover and transition this may be used for yaw control for example in an embodiment where differential collective pitch is not available. In airplane mode it may be used for roll control.
The inner wing portions 9, 10 may be alternatively removed from the rotor downwash simply by translating them longitudinally (outwardly) of the wing along the beam elements 7, 8. Then they may be accommodated within or overlapping the outer wing portions, or may be deployed beyond them to lengthen the wings. When just the beam elements 7, 8 are exposed to the rotor downwash the downforce on the wing may be reduced tenfold.
Translation of the inner wing portions 9, 10 transversely of the beam elements in the manner of flaps as well as pivoting then enables the inner wing portions to be used even more effectively as left-augmenting and/or flight control surfaces in forward flight and transition, for example by increasing the effective wing area, angle of attack and curvature of the effective airfoil.
Additionally, the download forces associated with air from the rotornacelle 3 flowing downwards around the fuselage 2 are minimised by suitably fairing the underside of the fuselage 2 as shown at 19. Panels set into the fuselage may be deployable for control purposes. For example, in search and rescue and other missions where rope or winch access is needed in hover, panels deployable as symmetrical diverters can be provided at the shoulders of the fuselage so as to disperse the downwash to give calmer air immediately beneath the fuselage. In another example a fin is disposed along the length of the apex of faired portion 19, and is rotatable about an axis at the apex parallel to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft to generate side forces when the aircraft is hovering in a side wind so that aircraft alignment is preserved for VTOL in constrained landing sites, or so that aircraft pointing may be retained for observation, aiming or weapon release purposes. Tricycle landing gear 22 is provided.
A typical flight for convertiplane 1 is envisaged as take-off, climb to chosen altitude, cruise, descent from altitude, and landing. For each phase of the flight the pilot may choose to fly the convertiplane in any one of the helicopter, transitional, and airplane modes, subject to flight regulations and envelope. To illustrate operation of the convertiplane 1, a flight plan will be assumed which starts with a conventional airplane runway take-off, climb and cruise, and then uses the transitional mode for descent, and lands using the helicopter mode.
In preparation for take-off the rotornacelle 3 is aligned substantially horizontally and remains thus through take-off, climb and cruise. The rotornacelle 3 may be trimmed in this conventional airplane mode to optimise the aircraft's attitude for efficient flight and for CG balancing. Descent is entered by reducing forward speed to the point where the desired rate of descent is achieved; this may be by reducing engine power, use of air brakes or such other conventional airplane primary and secondary control surfaces as provided or by deployment of inner wing portions 9 or 10 as airbrakes, or a combination of all such. At an appropriate distance form the intended landing site, the engine power and the angle from horizontal of the rotornacelle 3 are steadily increased and forward speed further reduced, by means as just described, so entering the transitional mode. The transition continues until the rotornacelle 3 is aligned substantially vertically, and the convertiplane has thereby entered the helicopter mode and is landed as such. Throughout transition and helicopter modes the inner wing portions 9 or 10 are substantially aligned to the local airflow and are able by use of small deflections to produce significant forces to assist change of aircraft forward speed, change of wing lift and change for control and manoeuvring.
Vertical take-off and transition to forward flight is essentially the reverse of the forward flight to hover transition and vertical landing described above. In hover and in forward flight at helicopter speeds, cyclic pitch can be used to keep the rotor thrust vector passing through the aircraft CG. At aircraft flight speeds, the horizontal tail control surfaces take over this duty.
Referring to
The aircraft is of a high-wing twin-boom layout, booms 22 extending rearwardly from the inboard end of outer half-wings 6 to support the aircraft's twin empennage 24 and horizontal stabiliser 26. Moveable half wings 5 are provided as in the
The rotornacelle 3 is pivotally mounted about a transverse axis C at the rear of the fuselage 2. For stability on the ground, tricycle undercarriage 28 with a tailwheel is provided.
In lift (helicopter) mode the rotornacelle is pivoted so as to dispose the rotors below the fuselage as shown in
The transition from forward flight to helicopter mode is as described for the
A variant of this embodiment is to mount the rotornacelle above the fuselage on pylons or supports spaced wider than the width of the rotors (for example at junctions between the booms 22 and the wings 4), and sufficiently tall for the tilt axis C to be positioned for the rotornacelle to move from a lift position beneath the axis C but above the fuselage to a flight position behind it. The pylons may be pivotally connected both to the nacelle and to the boom junctions to enable the nacelle to be positioned lower in the forward flight position, with its thrust vector passing closer to the aircraft CG.
For example, the open rotors may be enclosed within a rim or very short duct to form ducted rotors with collective and cyclic pitch as already described.
Alternatively ducted fans with a larger number of blades of fixed or collective pitch may be used. Whilst the duct would bring a cost and weight penalty, a ducted rotor or fan would have less noise from blade vortex interference and possibly reduced susceptibility to vortex ring state.
Instead of being coaxial the contra-rotating rotors may be disposed on spaced axes side by side, so that viewed from the front the rotornacelle appears U-shaped, the engine and tilt axis forming the base and two side-by-side rotor masts forming the sides of the U. The masts would be just over a rotor radius apart and equally spaced about the aircraft centre line, the contra-rotating rotors being geared together so as to intermesh. Alternatively the rotors may co-rotate provided the masts are of different heights or spaced more than a rotor diameter apart. Some means of compensating for torque reaction on the airframe (eg. a tail rotor) then would be necessary.
A further variation is to employ contra-rotating intermeshing rotors with rotor masts close together but at a slight angle to each other symmetrically about the aircraft centre line, so that they present a V-shaped appearance viewed from the front. The rotor masts are canted outwards no more than is necessary for the blades to intermesh with adequate clearance.
A large aircraft may have two separate tiltable contra-rotating rotors, one at the front and one at the rear, each being carried on a tiltable nacelle. Alternatively each rotornacelle may have a pair of contra-rotating rotors.
A third embodiment is shown in FIGS. 9 to 11, aircraft 101, configured as a gunship. Parts already described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6 carry the same reference numerals. A fourth embodiment is shown in
In the embodiments of
The rotors 11 a, 11 b are driven in opposing directions from a common cross-shaft mounted aligned to the tilt axis F-F. At any identical tilt angle of the pylons 30 a, 30 b, the rotors turn at the same speed and in perfect mesh. As the relative tilt changes, the phase needed for perfect meshing changes non-linearly. The gear ratio of the cross-shaft to the rotor shaft compensates for some of the phase change, although linearly.
For example, for a configuration where F-F lies at the convergence of G1 and G2, which are canted at a relative angle of 45�, a gear ratio of 1:2 will give acceptable mesh angles for two-bladed rotors. Rotors with more precise meshing requirements may need a differential gearbox within the common cross-shaft to allow the input of further phase non-linearly with relative tilt.
The various modes of flight, and the transitions between them, are illustrated in
Above this dynamic pressure the aircraft remains in the wing mode, with the wings providing all the lift and the rotors acting as conventional pusher propellers, except that each remains inclined to the aircraft centre line so that the rotors continue to mesh and each rotor is clear of the mast of the other. The angle of inclination is generally as small as possible so that the component of rotor thrust which is orthogonal to the aircraft centre line is as small as possible. To this end the angle of inclination can be made variable, and controlled so that any necessary relative phase changes are introduced to the rotors during variation of the angle of inclination. The principles and the methods of achieving it are basically similar to those applicable to variations in the relative tilt of the rotors. Variable rotor inclination may also be found advantageous in the hover mode, for example in a strong cross-wind in circumstances where it is not possible to turn the aircraft into the wind.
The use of dynamic pressure as a parameter for control purposes has the advantage of simplicity on two counts: sensing and application. It is simpler to sense because it is the true output of a Pitot-static probe (the difference between total and static pressure) requiring no compensation for air density or linearisation (as is needed to compute air speed from dynamic pressure). It is simpler to apply because a force or torque from a wing or control surface can be estimated from the simple product of the relevant aerodynamic coefficient times surface area times dynamic pressure.
However, because the aircraft will in any event have means for computing its air speed, the output from this system can if preferred be used instead of dynamic pressure as a control parameter, first and second airspeeds being used instead of the first and second dynamic pressures above described.
In the general aviation version of FIGS. 9 to 11, the rotor control of the aircraft is simplified by having no cyclic pitch; the flight control system is simplified by the surfaces being mechanically operated and the rotor tilt schedule is operated from a single lever, either mechanically or through an optional auto-tilt unit. Additionally, the tilt axis F-F is vertically offset upwards from the point of convergence of the axes G1 and G2 so that no differential gear-box may be required to ensure acceptable blade meshing for two, three or four blade rotors.
The angles of the pylons in the various modes of flight are summarised in the table below, where right and left are for the pilot:
In the helicopter and wing modes the controls are mainly used conventionally to trim and manoeuvre the aircraft. However, the controls are in some respects different from those in conventional tilt rotor aircraft, as shown below:
For the general aviation GA version of aircraft 101, in helicopter mode, the front portions 10 and the rear portions 9 of the wings are aligned substantially to the rotor downwash, ie the same angle of incidence.
The term �Differential wings� means that to yaw to the left, the front and rear portions 9, 10 of the left wing are tilted back and the front and rear portions 9, 10 of the right wing are tilted forward. The term �Differential blocked wings� means that to roll to the left, the front and rear portions 9, 10 of the left wing are tilted towards each other, so blocking some of the rotor downwash.
For both of these aircraft, in wing mode the front portions 10 and the rear portions 9 of the wings are aligned to form a normal single wing. However the rear portions of the wings 12 can still be used as flaperons, which control is referred to in the table above as �differential wings�.
In compound mode the control is unconventional in that while a rotor is tilted back to the 180� propeller position, its collective pitch is feathered to generate zero lift. Once 180� tilt is achieved, the collective pitch is set negative to generate useful forward thrust. Other controls can be washed in or out as appropriate to the tilt of the rotors.
During this process the other rotor and the wings provide continuity of lift and thrust for the aircraft, and the controls provide continuity of trim and manoeuvre.
On entry into the compound flight mode the first rotor 11 a, tilted at 80�, is fully loaded and the second rotor 11 b is feathered. The angle of cant of the first pylon 30 a means that the first rotor 11 a generates a side force to the right. As the second rotor 11 b is feathered, it cannot counter this force, and the fins 5, 13, 15 must do so. For counter-clockwise rotation (from above), the fins counter both torque and side-force. For clockwise rotation the fins can counter the torque only, and at the expense of adding to the side force. Therefore it is important to ensure that the fin area, the fin arm length and the direction of rotation of the rotors have been considered carefully in the design.
The geometry of ideal, rigid tilting of rotors with blades of negligible chord and thickness can be described with the following reference points and parameters:
It is assumed that the common cross-shaft lies on the tilt axis G to drive the rotor shafts in opposite directions. With zero offset the correction needed from P is
The error in ideal meshing can be described by a function such as
One version of this function, for 45� of cant, the offset being vertically upwards with offzz=0.6 and common gear ratio 9:13, gives the rigid geometry error shown in
Where there is significant longitudinal offset offxx rearwards of the common drive shaft from the tilt axis, meshing errors are increased. For example, for offxx=0.4, offzz=0.125, common gear ration of 1:3 and a differential gearbox engaging a simple fixed ratio at β=37�, the mesh error function shows a rigid geometry error which may be seen in
This would be suitable for two, three or four bladed rotors.
In the embodiment shown in
In another embodiment an aircraft is built in the style of a Boeing Chinook� with a tiltable front tractor rotor and a tiltable rear pusher rotor, on the aircraft centre line. This may give an advantage in wing-borne cruise efficiency if one rotor (probably the pusher rotor) is stopped in flight and folded. Transition between rotor-borne and wing-borne flight is achieved by gradually tilting the front tractor rotor forwards to achieve sufficient air speed for the wings to take-over the lift function of the rear rotor which is gradually feathered and then either rotated rearwards then to share propulsion duties with the front rotor, or to be folded and stowed.
Also some intermediate configurations are feasible. For example in cruise if one rotor is left in the auto-gyro position (with its axis substantially vertical but tilted slightly back to take advantage of the autorotation mode of the disk) then the other rotor, tractor or pusher, propels the aircraft. The auto-rotating rotor shares the lift duty with the wings, that share being reduced as forward speed increases.
It then is not necessary for the auto-rotating rotor to be fully deployable between lift and (substantially horizontal) propulsion positions. It need be tiltable no more than is necessary for deployment between a helicopter mode and an autogyro mode.
The aircraft 50 is intended for heavy lifting duties; it has a very large rear rotor 52 having limited tilt capability and a smaller fully-tiltable front rotor 54. In
While the present invention has been described in connection with certain preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the subject matter encompassed by the present invention is not limited to those specific embodiments. On the contrary, it is intended to include all alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as can be included within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
Each feature disclosed in this specification (which term includes the claims) and/or shown in the drawings may be incorporated in the invention independently of other disclosed and/or illustrated features.
Statements in this specification of the �objects of the invention� relate to preferred embodiments of the invention, but not necessarily to all embodiments of the invention falling within the claims.
The description of the invention with reference to the drawings is by way of example only. The text of the abstract filed herewith is repeated here as part of the specification.
A tilt-rotor aircraft comprising a pair of contra-rotating co-axial tiltable rotors on the longitudinal center line of the aircraft. The rotors may be tiltable sequentially and independently. They may be moveable between a lift position and a flight position in front of or behind the fuselage.
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Old Lyme — Thanks to an observant and persistent East Lyme resident, the Connecticut state flag is no longer flying higher than the American flag outside the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's marine headquarters on Ferry Road.
Last week, Joseph Mingo contacted DEEP after visiting the headquarters with his wife, Barbara, to walk its boardwalk, which extends along the Connecticut River. They noticed that the American flag, flown on a diagonal pole off the main center flagpole, was flying at a lower elevation than the state flag, which was on the center pole.
"No flag can fly higher than the American flag," Mingo said Friday. He said he called an official at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton and received confirmation that the flags at DEEP were not being flown according to proper flag protocol.
In its initial response to Mingo last Monday, DEEP said that because the Old Lyme office is a maritime facility with a maritime-style flagpole, it flew the American flag on the diagonal "gaff" pole, a place of honor on a ship that points in the direction the ship is heading. In an email to Mingo, DEEP Deputy Commissioner Susan Whalen said DEEP was following the directions of a letter from the American Legion about flag etiquette, and attached a copy of the letter to her message to Mingo.
Last Wednesday, Aluin Morales, protocol officer at the sub base, contacted Whalen and also sent her an email message. He said that while DEEP is correct in flying the American flag in the "gaff" position, the state flag should be flown from the lower "yardarm" position perpendicular to the center pole and lower than the "gaff." Only triangular pennants should be flown on the center pole higher than the American flag, Morales said. The pennants would indicate "something of importance taking place at that very moment," such as storm warnings, small craft warnings and hurricane warnings, he said.
"Most pennants are significantly smaller than flags (and) they are usually shaped like a triangle or a swallow-tail or rather small squares, never rectangular," he wrote.
On Thursday, DEEP staff moved the state flag from the center pole to the yardarm position. No flag or pennant is currently being flown on the center pole, said Dwayne Gardner, DEEP spokesman.
Mingo said that he is satisfied that DEEP has moved the state flag.
"I'm very happy, except that they haven't acknowledged anything to me," he said.
He added that he has been driving to other local public places to check how the American flag is being flown, and wants more people to become educated about proper flag protocol.
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