For now I'm dreaming of a 70% scale carbon fiber CL-84 Dynavert with
 twin quad rotor turbo compounded 26Bs. The best design to date,
 better than the difficult to fly and deadly Osprey. In my opinion
 anyway. http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/canadair_dynavert.php


 https://youtu.be/iCd2FqTJKs0 https://youtu.be/tzsAuSyEOl0
 https://youtu.be/dKcmjuoPQfs Really cool vtol/stol mix including
 CL-84 and vertical take off design like Paul's.
 https://youtu.be/tzsAuSyEOl0 Best Regards, Kurt Emerson

 I would hardly say the Osprey is difficult to fly or deadly.  It has
 a fly by wire control system which is probably universally now used
 in expensive aircraft. The F16 is inherently unstable with out it.
 One must avoid the ring vortex state but all helicopters have that
 problem more or less.  Yes they had some fatal crashes in the Osprey
 development period when the ring vortex state was not fully
 understood. Now the Marines love them.

 The idea of making an adiabatic internal combustion engine has been
 around for years. Several have been built regardless of the
 difficulty or ease of fabricating the parts. No positive BSFC
 results have been reported so far. BSFC is so critical to the
 function of an internal combustion engine if it had worked the
 ceramic parts would have now  been common.

 Some claims for ceramic coatings on piston tops have been mentioned
 but I don't thing that is common on production pistons either. The
 risk factor is high because  if it comes off the engine is toast.

 AIXRO does not recommend ceramic rotor bearings for that reason. In
 addition there is the initial increased cost of the ceramic bearing
 itself.

 Ceramic turbines in turbo charger have also been successfully tried.
 However they do not dominate turbo charger turbine material. Inconel
 is still preferred.

 As far as turbines in turbo jets or turbo fans I have no idea if
 ceramic version are widely used or not. Cost of course is less of an
 issue.

 Paul Lamar


 Definitely the KOOL factor, but horribly complex mechanically, and
 to operate !

 Steve Carlisle


 Steve are you talking about the CL-84 or the Osprey? The articles on
 the CL-84 say it flew just like a plane. The control box was a piece
 of genius. I'm sure it could be duplicated and mimicked using fly by
 wire.

 Kurt Emerson

 It was a 2 engine copy of the  LTV XC-142
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_XC-142


 Or the   Vertol VZ-2 (Model 76)

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vertol_VZ-2_%28Model_76%29_NASA_GPN-2000-001732.jpg

The problem was they had too high of a disk loading for taking off
 vertically with a low payload to power ratio.

 They solved that  problem in the Osprey. The Osprey solved that
 problem with much larger diameter rotors.


 Paul Lamar

 I would think in the early 80,s the CL-84 was mechanical, and the
 newer Osprey, similar bird, would be fly by wire, You say the control
 box was a piece of genius. 2 main wing rotors and a tail rotor to
 make all this act like a helicopter, and a plane. Impressive !

 Steve Carlisle


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