CiTrus90's 3D Drawings of Unbuilt Aircraft

Citrus, these are incredible!

Are you active on CGTrader or any similar sites? I'm itching to get my hands on some of these models...
 
woody000555 said:
Citrus, these are incredible!

Are you active on CGTrader or any similar sites? I'm itching to get my hands on some of these models...
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Thank you!

I'm afraid pretty much all of these models would have to be reworked from scratch in order to be 3d printable, unfortunately.
 
CiTrus90 said:
Thank you!

I'm afraid pretty much all of these models would have to be reworked from scratch in order to be 3d printable, unfortunately.
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That's part of my fun ;) If you are willing to exchange let me know, happy to offer a price!
 
RipSteakface said:
do you have any more info for this one, its very cool.
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Hi RipSteakface!
I don't have much on it unfortunately, the totality of the information I could find is courtesy of Yasotay.
It appears to have been a low-observable tiltrotor concept studied by Sikorsky and called CLVA.
You can read Yasotay's posts about it here and here.
Bagera3005 drew an enlarged 4 views of it, but for some reason decided to call it Bell V-33.
 
GTX said:
Love your work. Trying to picture how it was meant to work though.
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I think there were 2 flight modes envisioned.

The first one, which I tried to depict above, is the "conventional" one, with the forward blades angled to the sides:
LM Delta Wing Rotor - rot - 0.jpg
Here lift is probably provided by a combination of the fuselage's shape and the blades acting in a similar way to wings. The exhausts at the rear would propel the "aircraft" forward.

The second flight mode instead, from what I understand, would be similar to that of a helicopter. The forward blades would be extended and part of the fuselage would act as the disc rotor to spin the blades, with the upper part rotating in a direction and the lower one counterrotating:
LM Delta Wing Rotor - rot - 1.jpg
LM Delta Wing Rotor - rot - 2.jpg
LM Delta Wing Rotor - rot - 3.jpg
Now...how feasible that would be, I have no idea.
 
If you could do an animation, that would really help. I did some in CATIA and it made understanding mechanisms much easier.
 
Richard N said:
If you could do an animation, that would really help.
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I'm trying to keep the file size on the low end, but I hope this helps:
animation_2.gif

yasotay said:
Had Citrus not shown us how it likely worked, we could spent ten pages arguing about how it would likely have worked.
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You are giving me way too much praise, I'm just guessing from the patent images how it might operate.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Intake looks odd on this one, almost like it's backwards. I assume that's just some really odd light angles.
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Intuitively it looks like a potential problem. I suppose they may have worked on the leading edge and canopy to help alleviate the problem. Or they might not have gotten that far.
 
yasotay said:
One of your best yet! Photo-realistic.
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the-office-bow.gif

More on the Rockwell Silent Night Attack:
NAA Rocwell Silent night attack aircraft - front.jpg
NAA Rocwell Silent night attack aircraft - side.jpg
NAA Rocwell Silent night attack aircraft - top.jpg
I guess shielding the fan face to lower RCS took priority in the design of the aircraft.

Sundog said:
Are you going to make a render showing the wing locked to the canard? I would like to see that as well. It looks awesome. :)
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Would a 3 view suffice?
NG CLOW - front 1.jpg
NG CLOW - front 2.jpg
NG CLOW - side 1.jpg
NG CLOW - side 2.jpg
NG CLOW - top 1.jpg
NG CLOW - top 2.jpg
 

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