GURPS 3e: Making a duct-rotor helicopter

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by GURPS Fox

The thing was, they looked like regular rotors, just in ducts. :\ So sorry for the hiccups that makes.

At least I've resigned to simply using multiple main rotors for intermeshing rotors helicopters...

They do look very large for ducted fans. In the Real World this might give you better lift efficiency (which ducted fans suck at) but it'd come at the expense of forward speed.

What Ve2 _really_ loves is a lifting body with vectored thrust jet engines. That's where I always ended up when tryign to build this sort of thing.

Oh, and I agree about the "Kaman" style helicpters.