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mind and interests."
Landman says, "the show is a
little bit Art Bell, NPR All Things Considered, and CBS Radio Mystery
Theater. It's key subject areas are pop-culture, science-technology,
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"This includes a very
serious approach to the scientific evaluation of UFOs and a keen interest
in sleep and dream research. In fact, the too-little known Dream
Telepathy experiments conducted at Maimonides Hospital in the 1960s are to
my mind, the watershed moment for all of the weaknesses of modern science
and its usual and automatic rejection of the paranormal. Any
scientist who pooh-poohs ESP and telepathy without first considering the
ingenious work of Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner, Gardner Murphy and
others, is merely an ostrich whose head and brain are parked way below the
surface demarcation which separates intelligence from stupidity.
Intelligence is above the surface.
"Furthermore, any person
of science who rejects the possibility of UFOs without closely studying
available data and explicitly reading detailed reports made by
professional pilots, air traffic controllers and law enforcement personnel
in the second half of the 20th Century, is too lazy to earn his or her
right to have his or her comments and/or data on this mysterious subject
matter, taken seriously.
"The biggest problem science faces
in its response to these subjects, as far as adding anything meaningful to
a fascinating dialogue which continues with greater force than ever, is
its embarrassing ignorance of the subtle issues which propel the ongoing,
serious scientific discussions which move the research into new
directions. The quantum aspects of both these phenomena are the
likely doorways through which pass the questions which may well lead to
the greatest scientific discoveries of, at least, the 21st Century,
if not for many of the other upcoming centuries before us.
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Jack Landman Interviews Jay Carter, Jr. - Inventor
the Carter Copter, The Revolutionary Personal Flying Machine Which May
Change the Dynamics of Personal Travel Forever
Listen to the Complete 40
Minute Radio Interview (Windows Media File)
The
Amazing Carter Copter Auto Gyro Flight Vehicle Promises to Revolutionize
Personal Travel Because it is an All-In-One, Automobile, Helicopter and
Airplane Which Takes Off Vertically, Cruises Horizontally Like a
Traditional Airplane or Jet, Lands Vertically and Then Drives to and
Parks in a Parking Space No Bigger than that Needed for a Conventional
Automobile...Travel Time for Trips of 50 to 350 Miles Will Take Thirty
Minutes to Two Hours, Including All Time Required to Travel to the
Airport, Park the Car, Board the Aircraft, Flight Time, Arrival and
Disembarkation, Use Ground Transportation and Arrive at Your Ultimate
Destination...You Don't Believe It?...Read On
Sometimes the key to progress is to ignore what everybody
knows and see what really happens when you try to do something common
knowledge says is impossible. In the skies over Texas a composite
futuristic rotorcraft is trying to do just that. Jay Carter, Jr. dreams
of a craft that can take off vertically, cruise cross country at speeds
comparable to an an airplane and land vertically at the end of a
flight the Carter Copter Technology Demonstrator, CCTD, currently
being flight tested, could be the first step in realizing this age old
dream.
More
Auto Gyro than Helicopter - An auto gyro is a rotorcraft that does not
power the rotor directly by the engine. The rotor is made to spin by air
passing up through it in much the same way as a wind turbine is powered
by the wind. This is in contrast to a helicopter, where the rotor is
usually driven by a drive shaft and as a result needs some method to
counter this torque, such as a tail rotor. Since the rotor is un powered
in an auto gyro, it requires a propeller or some other means of
propulsion to push it through the air. To read more about auto gyros and
auto gyro history, visit our Auto gyro
History page.
The
Carter Copter is a hybrid between an airplane and a rotorcraft. A rotor
is a very efficient device for providing lift at low speeds, but its
drag increases rapidly as the aircraft goes faster if it must continue
to support the aircraft. In the Carter Copter, as the aircraft speeds up
and the wings begin producing more of the lift, the rotor produces less
lift and can slow down given the correct control input. The reduction of
rotor lift and lower rpm significantly decrease the rotor drag (in fact,
a three fold reduction in rpm results in approximately a 27 fold
reduction in rotational drag- drag required to just spin the rotor). The
rotor drag at very low rpm's and low lift basically becomes a function
of its area (which is relatively small compared to an airplane wing of
similar gross weight) and the forward speed of the aircraft.
Wings
are very efficient at high speed, but can't provide enough lift as the
aircraft slows down. In most aircraft, the wings are sized significantly
larger than they need to be in cruise flight so that the pilot can fly
slower for landing. Most airplanes also have some type of high lift
device, such as flaps, which further decrease the minimum flight speed
of the aircraft, but add weight and complexity to the wing. The Carter
Copter has a very simple wing, sized much smaller than a conventional
aircraft of similar size, because the wing only needs to support the
aircraft at high speeds.
The
combination of the slowed, unloaded rotor and the simple, small wing is
what allows the Carter Copter to operate so efficiently. Its efficiency
is on par, or better in high speed cruise than those of fixed wing
aircraft (airplanes) with a stall speed less than 70 mph, and is much
more efficient at high speed than any conventional rotorcraft.
2 Seater
- Personal Carter Copter
4 Seater - Personal Carter
Copter |
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