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Why has nobody thought yet to incorporate LED lights to the underside of a helicopters spinning blades to create a persistence of vision display?
Must I do everythink myself?
Cyclogyro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclogyro
Theoretically, a good idea ... [8th of 7, Sep 27 2020]
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Bun, but easier to just project an image on it no? |
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Naw. You'd need to track it, compensate for distance, projector angle, yadda yadda. Much easier to incorporate into the blades themselves. |
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I keep picturing a stealth copter lit up looking like a UFO and blowing people's minds... |
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Nice. Curious as to the RPMs required for a POV
display... |
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Not from the ground, a projector or series of projectors
on
the top of the
helicopter shining up at the blades. That's just the price
of
the projectors and you could
project anything without any programming. Movies,
cartoons, prawnography (which is the study of the
geometry
of prawns) Put a big blinking eyeball on
it or something. |
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Still like the LED idea though. Very weird it hasn't been
done. |
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Coupling the electrical power up through the hub would be challenging, altho that can probably be done with a rotary transformer.. |
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It's most likely a safety issue, in that for detail to be clearly visible to an audience, the chopper is going to have to be relatively low- at night. |
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Other than for landing, aviation authorities generally require a minimum altitude be maintained, particularly over built-up areas. There are the obvious exceptions for emergency services, winch rescues etc. |
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A Sikorsky S-61 has a main rotor diameter of 19m. For an observer to resolve details, they probably need to be within 150m or less. Flying that low at night isn't an issue to the pilots, because all helicopter pilots have a deathwish and are clinically insane, but it would be worrying (and very noisy) to those underneath. |
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Structures that stick up 20 to 30 m above ground level are far from uncommon. A small error could suddenly become very loud and expensive, and at such a low altitude there's no time to recover. |
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The fuselage is going to obscure a portion of the image. Fans with LED displays integrated into the blades have the axle at the back, so the full disc is visible. |
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^ All of those things are true, but just to be able to light the ground beneath you like daylight while night landing as a pilot would make the whole shebang worth while. |
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[kdf] good find. I am actually surprised that none of those versions came up in my preliminary search. |
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Fine. Be that way. I get it, my authority won't allow me to disclose entirely either. |
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I googled led pov helicopter and all variations thereof... but I admit some of those searches were conducted here. |
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In my own defence I rarely search anything without finding reference to it here first... even as a last search. |
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I guess I must undo this long held assumption.
<heavy sigh> |
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// i’m finding that sentence somewhat difficult to parse. // |
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You're not the only one. Maybe he's channeling [wjt], or [Beanangel] .... |
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Search engines can be idiosyncratic and sometimes remarkably unhelpful. Frequently it's easier to post an idea, let others find the Prior Art, then delete it. |
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Or indeed black and white. If you look at photographs from the 1920's and before, the stop signs are black and white; indeed, so are all the others. So that proves it, conclusively. |
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Ah yes, let me see if I can English that sentence a bit better. |
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Even if the hb is the last place I conduct a search for something it is usually the first place I find mention of that something, even when it is not widely known to exist.
Like a POV display on helicopter rotors. |
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Useless. Null points. Try again. |
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Would be more interesting to have an array of sliding panels on the rotor underside which slid in and out actuated by a mechanical cam type arrangement on the swash plate, so that there was a mechanical pov image created using purely ambient light. |
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You could combine that concept with a Cyclogyro <link> design. |
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//Coupling the electrical power up through the hub would
be challenging//
Easy, slip-rings at the swash plate. I thought you were
smarter than that, [8th of 7]. It's LEDs, so low power. Data
can be the same or wireless. |
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Actually, you only need one slip ring, and use the mainshaft as the ground return. |
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That's not the issue, though; the issue is that it's "just one more thing to go wrong", something no helicopter needs... |
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We use hydraulic slip rings all the time in combat
vehicles, so electrical can’t be that hard. Granted,
those are ridiculously over designed and weigh half
a ton and don’t spin several hundred rpms... |
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