No, not even close to "masterpieces", but here are some gyroplanes I did with Paint.NET. These are pretty old, I'm much better with it now (although clearly Ashley is the real pro).
And this is the same aircraft but with turbo engines instead of props.
I'll post more soon.
-- Edited by Sarah on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 11:07:36 PM
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Most of the early Mil helicopters use the same kind of rear landing gear configuration, for example.
I didn't notice.
Here is another old drawing (more of a random doodle with no effort) of a gyroplane with no wings and no source of thrust or means of anti-torque... just a main rotor to spin it out of control.
I cant find my best artworks yet, they are probably in boxes. For now I have these crudely drawn concepts for some rotorcraft I came up with a few years ago. First one here is a trailing-rotor aircraft with downward-tilting rotors. I tried to fix a small problem with ground clearance in the second one (it was simple, I just put the wings closer to the top and angled upward about 10 degrees) and also drew out a quad-rotor configuration. Sorry if my Ts look like Ys.
-- Edited by Sarah on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 12:42:10 AM
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And here I was trying different concepts of the single tilt-propeller, and a tandem-rotor configuration of it. Ashley suggested I do this for my trailing-rotor aircraft too but I never got around to it.
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More weird aircraft. These predate my years as an aerospace engineer. Ignore the random doodles in the first one... and I tried playing with this concept in the next two so it can carry passengers.
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And here I was trying different concepts of the single tilt-propeller, and a tandem-rotor configuration of it. Ashley suggested I do this for my trailing-rotor aircraft too but I never got around to it.
It looks like Boeing proposed something strikingly similar to this already...