Joukowsky Dynamics
A road car whose four wheels become ducted proprotors. Each wheel is a tyre on a duct rim with a 7-blade rotor inside; to fly, the car stands on landing legs and each wheel swings 90° up and outward on a hinge. Every part is modelled as a CAD solid, and the rotor blades are designed with the equations from NASA's Fundamental Proprotor Design Considerations.
- Holographic sequence: watch the car assemble, drive, stand on its legs, open its petals, swing its wheels up into rotors and take off
- Click any region (a wheel, the battery, the cockpit) to fly in and see it pulled apart, with a live briefing of what it's doing at that moment
- 242 unique parts and 3,607 placed pieces, each with a datasheet, a three-view drawing and its own STEP file
- Bill of materials, mass roll-up and centre of gravity computed from the CAD
- Rotor calculator: blade twist and chord, stall margins, edgewise flow, power vs airspeed and hover endurance
- Honest numbers: the analysis shows where the design falls short and what would fix it
Runs in the browser; best on a computer. A concept study, not a flight-qualified design.