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Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thwop-thwop-thwop-chunk-chunk-chunk dept.

tyler_larson writes "Just over a week ago, Jay Carter's CarterCopter managed to break a significant rotorcraft barrier, traveling at a mu ratio of 1. This 1-to-1 ratio (sometimes called the mu-1 barrier) represents a condition where the forward speed of the craft is the same as the speed of the tip of the rotor. This means that at a certain point, the tip of the retreating blade is "standing still" relative to the wind and producing no lift, while the rest of the blade is actually moving backwards through the air. Such a condition is normally impossible for a rotorcraft, and so the forward speed of a helicopter is limited by the the speed of the rotors. This accomplishment by the CarterCopter, which some insisted couldn't be done, proves that this new craft is not subject to that limitation."

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  1. oh.. by dostick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...not the knights who say "mu" !

  2. /.-1 by ccozan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i guess the website hasn't passed the /.-1 barrier.

  3. People change and reveal themselves by imr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As President a lot of people were bashing him, even mocking him and it's only after he went into human rights that he truely revealed his stature as a big man. And now he is going into the superhero turf!
    What a man!
    I can't wait until more is known about the cartermobile and the cartercave.

  4. What about Mu-2? by civman2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If these guys want to be real pokemon masters, they're going to have to step it up a little.